American Horror Story: Asylum
TV Show Report
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28
8
Colleen Werner
No, but a character mentions skinning a cat as a child.
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32
Yes
15
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16
2
wren_scribbles
a cow
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24
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22
Yes
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31
Yes
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2
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29
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1
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26
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30
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CielMarie
A nun says pepper killed her sisters baby and cut its ears off. Spoiler******But since pepper is from season 4 and season 2 happens later in time, we know pepper didn’t actually hurt anyone she was framed and sent there.
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1
Yes
24
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synth1919
There is a lot of forms of gaslighting throughout this show. I believe it's a premise actually. Most of the characters go through things that others don't believe or try to make them forget (e.g. deem them mentally unstable etc.)
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Yes
20
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0
0
Certain drugs are administered to patients to “keep them calm”, that can be triggering to some
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29
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0
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Sister Jude struggles with recovering and relapses of alcoholism
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Yes
23
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0
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puppybrained
Alcoholism, all of the characters smoke
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0
Yes
6
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0
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Gaybie
Frequently. Several times during the season people are strapped or chained to a bed.
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0
Yes
32
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1
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Gaybie
Yes in epsiode 7 while Threadson and Lana are in his basement. It's very graphic.
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0
Yes
25
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27
No
1
0
At least 3 times shows suicide by wrists being cut (one being imagined by sister Jude) but also throat slashing
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21
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2
0
mewmew
Yes, there definitely is in a scene with the nun.
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27
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0
1
sunsetredwolf
in one of the first few episodes of the season, kit has his eyes pried open by a metal device.
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0
5
synth1919
There are a lot of torture scenes. Electrotherapy, surgical scalping, kidnapping, sexual and physical assault etc.
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21
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1
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21
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0
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Forced amputation of both legs below the knee and a man gets his arm ripped off (which I guess counts?)
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0
1
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Mentioned multiple times but not shown
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Yes
25
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5
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synth1919
Down a flight of stairs.
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Yes, when characters are strangled or have their throat slashed
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15
0
Mutated inmates are fed dead inmates
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26
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1
1
lulucakelove
ECT is used often and this results in seizures
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18
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14
5
BethRees
Dead Women’s teeth are removed to add to a mask of skin this scene is not shown but mentioned
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8
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0
Yes
0
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1
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19
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4
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synth1919
A man burns himself alive and a dead body in a crematorium.
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18
Yes
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1
Yes
2
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0
1
puppybrained
An infant is forcefully taken by foster services. Very intense scene, lots of screaming and crying.
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22
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10
7
BethRees
A child murders younger friend
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1
Yes
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0
Yes
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6
1
For all degrading and offensive language used towards the patients (quite accurate for the time in many asylums), I don’t recall the R-word specifically being used
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2
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5
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15
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probablyadalek
its mentioned once
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14
Yes
29
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2
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26
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0
Yes and graphic hostage/captive situation is portrayed
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4
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19
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31
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synth1919
A boy is majorly possessed by the devil and they perform an exorcism. Then a low-key possession takes place with a nun that spans a couple episodes.
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0
Yes
21
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2
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29
No
0
1
synth1919
There are plenty throughout, some expected some not.
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0
Yes
0
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25
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39
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5
saigeisswag
SERIES 2 !! (made with the help of emetophobia warnings tumblr).
ep1 — SAFE-ISH!
30 minutes and 46 seconds in, kit eats some food, and spits it back out. Slight g*g sound, however he DOES NOT actually v*. Shouldn’t be too triggering.
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ep2 — SAFE!
(However 32 minutes and 56 seconds in, a boy is getting an exorcism begins to foam at the mouth. It’s also shown again at 34 minutes. There’s no triggering audio, and I personally did not find it triggering at all.)
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ep3 — SAFE!
(lana’s girlfriend says she’s going to be sick 1.40 minutes in, but isn’t)
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ep4 — UNSAFE!
24 minutes and 54 seconds in, Lana is given therapy to “cure” her. She is shown indecent images of naked women, and is made to v* at the sight of them. Very graphic visual and audio. I found it best to mute and look away. It’s safe to unmute and watch at 26 minutes and 6 seconds, but at 28 minutes and 29 seconds she v* again. The scene ends at 28 minutes and 40 seconds, and is completely safe from that point on.
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ep5 — SAFE!
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ep6 — SAFE!
(15 minutes in they are in a tuberculosis ward, there is coughing but no one v* so don’t get worked up about that. It’s not very triggering I just thought I’d let you know because I was a bit nervous.)
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ep7 — SAFE!
(mention of v* though. when a man comes into judy’s apartment around 24 minutes in, he mentions she smells of v*- however, you don’t see anything).
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ep8 — UNSAFE!
18 minutes in, Lana v* into a bowl. Slight visual/ does have audio. She stops v* at 18 minutes and 15 seconds, however she does keep the bowl in her hands. You can’t actually see the contents of the bowl though. If you want to skip the whole scene, it ends at 19 minutes, and all you miss is kit being in the bed behind the curtain.
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ep9, 8, 11 & 12 — SAFE!
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ep13 — SAFE-ISH!
18 minutes and 15 seconds in, sister Jude is shown getting a “detox” through a time lapse. In the time lapse she is shown holding her stomach, coughing and g*gging. I didn’t find it too triggering as I don’t think she actually v*, the time lapse ends at 18 minutes and 34 seconds. The rest of the episode is safe.
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2
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Gaybie
No, the cops are portrayed as very useless in this show with the characters having to be the ones to seek justice. There's also no unlawful acts by the police that are glorified.
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Yes
34
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synth1919
Scenes with an electric table is used for aversion therapy.
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13
2
can_of_pringles
Kit gets cancer later in the season
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34
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0
1
sunsetredwolf
be aware of several scenes in which mental patients are sedated.
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32
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0
0
It’s a big part of the asylum
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carolineop
It's the whole season
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28
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0
A lot of self harm, not only c*ts, but also banging head against wall etc
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0
1
synth1919
A man burns himself alive
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2
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0
Yes
0
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0
0
Gaybie
Alma suffers PTSD after she was abducted by aliens.
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0
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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5
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Yes
19
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3
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19
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2
0
This happens a lot
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7
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0
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blackdovedraws
It’s not intense, but there’s a lot of scenes of intense breathing, and an abundance of sobbing and occasionally the monstrous creatures make gurgling and labored breathing noises.
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0
Yes
8
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0
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7
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probablyadalek
a few small scenes, its not used often
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hyunjin
when the aliens show up
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2
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2
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20
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Meret Katharina
BUT there are several attempts at (self) abortion
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1
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BethRees
Women attempts giving herself an abortion with a coat hanger
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2
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22
Yes
15
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1
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wren_scribbles
in first episode
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synth1919
Lots since there are patients in the Asylum with mental and physical issues. Most of the language or behaviour is by the nuns.
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Yes
27
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Colleen Werner
Racism: a character is bullied/beat up for being in a mixed-race relationship, and it's implied that their marriage isn't legally recognized.
Homophobia: a character is committed into the hospital due to being in a lesbian relationship, and at least one episode depicts conversion therapy.
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synth1919
There is a whole part of the show with an Ann Frank character who claims the Dr in the Asylum is a N**i who did and continues to do Nazi-related experiments on subjects. A character (presumably semite) who tries to take down the N**i gets murdered.
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0
Yes
25
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sailorvenus69
Many lesbophobic slurs are thrown towards Lana Winters.
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Yes
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1
2
icallitjustice
Not only this but some scenes heavily focus on conversion therapy.
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8
Yes
0
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Yes
5
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Gaybie
An elderly man and a 20 -30 year old women have a sexual relationship.
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9
4
apeop
a man has a delusion that a woman is his mother and sexually assaults her
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Yes
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0
0
Both consensual and non-consensual (aka r*pe)
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Yes
3
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Yes, but most of the time where it’s FULL nudity it’s not sexual. Two female characters are nude, one shown full body from the back, in hydrotherapy scene. Nudity is shown during alien abduction and male nudity is shown when doctor “examines” (looks more like torture) a character, both examples blurr front nudity
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Especially Shelly as she has hypersexual disorder (previously called nymphomania), but both Sister Jude and Sister Mary Eunice is objectified
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Yes
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1
Yes
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1
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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For some characters yes
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0
I think it qualifies. A deranged man dressed up as Santa when committing crimes and is dressed as Santa in the asylum when committing acts of violence
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Yes
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0
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synth1919
A women relives hitting a child and that scene is showed a couple times until it's 'resolved'.
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Yes
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1
Yes
0
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Yes
26
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lulucakelove
A little girl was, but *SPOILERS* she is revealed later to have survived
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Yes
22
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0
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blackdovedraws
A mental patient shoots a doctor in the leg in self defense
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22
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charlotteanne_l
No, however someone’s head is held under water until they are unconscious.
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19
Yes
26
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synth1919
Part of the show's premise is around a major serial killer that was involved in very gorey killings.
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