The Americans

TV Show • 2013 • Crime  

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Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
This tv show contains 47 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Man is burned alive. Woman is killed, then her bones broken. A family is found brutally murdered. People are shot in the head. A man is hanged. + More
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abandonment
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At the end of the series, Henry is left in America while his family flees
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Markjackson
People tail and watch people intensely a lot for their spy work, Larrick also stalks a lot of people during s2
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Markjackson
One example I can think of is during s1 when Elizabeth gets whipped and hit by a man during sex
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takver
The main characters are spies, and throughout the show, they lie to and manipulate people in order to get them to do what they want. If someone gets close to figuring them out, they throw out new information in order to confuse them.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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takver
In seasons 3 and 4, one of the running subplots involves a character who's in AA.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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WuSamClan
Season 6, episode 9 - A horse is shown laid down injured / dying
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
88 supporters
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WuSamClan
Season 6, episode 9 - A horse is shown laid down injured / dying
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Are animals abused?
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_charlatan
S4
 E6
There's a dead rat shown in this episode from 35:50 to 35:55 It is already dead due to having been exposed to a tularemia bacteria during animal testing. Also in the next episode 7 from 28:40 to 28:50 where they are in the freezer.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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8
Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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major plot line in season 5 revolves around bugs and is quite disgusting.
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
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ursamajors
In the pilot there is a brief flashback to Elizabeth about to be raped during her training.

During Philip’s training, he is required to sleep with many different people and it was a traumatic experience for him.

While it wasn’t assault, in season 2 episode 6, Elizabeth asks Philip to have rough sex with her, which triggers both of them and causes her to cry. He stops when she asks him too but it brought up bad memories for both of them.
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in the pilot a main character is SA’d on screen. it isn’t too graphic but it definitely quite hard to watch. SPOILER later in the episode he is killed by the victim and her husband, partially because of his assault.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Markjackson
In s2 e13 a character struggles to breath as he’s bleeding out from the neck
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Is there cannibalism?
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meghjus
in season 3 a man burns to death by getting "necklaced" by a burning tire
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Is someone buried alive?
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takver
In S3E5, "Salang Pass."
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Is there a hanging?
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takver
S3E13, "March 8, 1983." A man is killed by hanging, made to look like a suicide. We only see the body afterward, not the murder itself.
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ursamajors
In season 3, Elizabeth’s tooth is broken during a fight. In episode 3, she has Philip remove it without anesthesia.
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takver
Very graphically, memorably, and repeatedly in S3E2 "Baggage."
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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ursamajors
In season 1 episode 6, Philip and Elizabeth are captured by unknown people and tortured for several hours.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
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S1
 E3
A baby's mother is killed so that her child can be taken to Russia and given to it's grandparents to be raised.
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Does a kid die?
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Markjackson
Spoilers!
A family of two parents and their high school daughter get fatally shot in their hotel room during season two
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Markjackson
Multiple affairs throughout the show, both for “work purposes” and non work purposes
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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pretty sure there’s some in the background in season 2 episode 1 during the carnival scene(s)
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Wakkawookie
Season 6 Episode 4.

There is a woman who is sick. Near the end of the episode she v* multiple times. There is warning, she says "I feel sick" just prior. This takes place at a party.

Season 6 Episode 8. Approx. 15 minutes in, largely unexpected but deep into a scene. Involves same character. Moderately graphic and potentially very triggering. Prolonged, perhaps 30 sec or more.
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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_charlatan
Neither police, nor government officials, are really ever portrayed as being 'the good guys' in this series.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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takver
In S4E3 "Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow," three characters are given an injection. And in S1E2 "The Clock," a character is nonconsensually injected with a needle twice.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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ursamajors
Throughout the final season, Elizabeth is disguised as a nurse taking care of a woman with cancer.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Markjackson
EXTREMELY graphically near the end of season 5 during a suiicde attempt
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_charlatan
There are deaths that are made to look like suicide
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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6
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Markjackson
Graphic attempt near the end of season five
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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1
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3
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Mentioned?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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meghjus
one of the first actually developed characters to die in the series is Elizabeth's black boyfriend
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Is there hate speech?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there n-words?
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Jesso
S3
 E7
Not the n-word specifically. An Afrikaans man uses the k-slur at a South African black man, while he's being "necklaced".
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
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Markjackson
Plenty of it. Lots of graphic sex scenes, although we never actually see any genatalia from what I know of
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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7
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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2
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
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JacobHildebrandt
A mushroom cloud is seen in the opening credits of each episode. The threat of nuclear war is overtly discussed/threatened in many episodes.
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Is there blood/gore?
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KatieA
S1 E8 a person is blown up inside a bathroom and the scene in the bathroom is quite graphic.
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Does someone drown?
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ursamajors
Throughout the entire show characters regularly use guns. While there are few shoot outs, several characters die due to guns or are shot.
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