The Expanse
TV Show • 2015 • Drama
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A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
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Abuse
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Technically the whole solar system, twice, by a corporation
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Children are kidnapped and experimented on in the second and third seasons.
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We don’t see it but in later seasons a woman who ran away from an abusive relationship a long time ago talks about the control and fear she had from her partner. Was not stated to be physical abuse. He held her child from her after she left as well and she didn’t get to see her child again. Could be triggering
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Animals are hallucinations or robotic.
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Does a cat die?
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S6
E4
Lucky earther the orange kitty is safe after the blast!
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Are there bugs?
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Season 5 has an entire episode centered around a species of deadly alien bugs.
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A bird creature dies in season 5 end of episode 1 and beginning of episode 2. Super upsetting
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Assault
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There is an implied history of sexual assault but it’s never mentioned or shown on-screen.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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In season 4 an alien bacteria grows in people's eyes, blinding them.
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Is there excessive gore?
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E7
A guy goes splat in his spaceship when he flies too fast into an alien artifact.
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Is someone tortured?
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Timestamp around 24:50 they will show someone being tortured by being in gravity. they sweat, struggle to breath, wheeze a lot. The person says to leave him for more time and says "if he survives call me"
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Is there body horror?
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They discuss the effects of people growing up in zero gravity, like bones that are too long, fused wrong, people suffering from tremors.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Very graphic scene is included where a woman trying to hide a dead body crushes his skull. Another character early on is decapitated during a spaceship battle scene.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A man has a tooth pulled out with a pair of pliers while being tortured.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Beginning of Episode 1. It's not fire, but someone is consumed by an alien thing, and they thrash around as someone else screams, so could be reminiscent of being burned alive
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Is there decapitation?
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During combat, a prisoner gets his head blown off while he's seated. You just see the aftermath, but it is still jarring with the blood.
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Is there amputation?
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First episode a man loses his arms and it is very visible
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Running out of oxygen in spacesuits or getting thrown out of an airlock is common
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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happens quite a few times each season. usually you can tell it’s coming but sometimes someone gets spaced unexpectedly.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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When the protomolicule begins to take over a character in S1E9 It looks a somewhat alike to a seizure.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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People who are "spaced" are thrown out of airlocks into space, visually resembles falling.
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Children
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In S1E5 a station gets blown up with children on board, killing all
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Death
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Disability
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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In S1 there is a parent and child that die in E5. It is very easy to become attached to them and they are seen floating in space embracing after they die.
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Fear
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There’s a significant jump scare in the first episode, but that is probably the scariest the show ever gets, so it’s mild.
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Is someone possessed?
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The protomolecule imitates possession.
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Is there a shower scene?
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one of the characters goes to shower knowing that bed guys will try to beat him up. then said character beats up the bad guys.
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Are there ghosts?
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Not specifically, but in season 3 one of the character is hallucinating consistently for several episodes, in a way that mimics closely the behavior of a ghost.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Towards the end of the season, a series of portals open in succession and I instantly thought someone with trypophobia would find it discomforting
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Gross
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A character's spacesuit has trouble producing oxygen, and as they start to feel the effects, they vomit. It hits the faceplate, and remains visible for the rest of the scene.
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Does someone spit?
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In the first few episodes, a young criminal punk type kid spits at someone's feet, but it lands offscreen, and there aren't any close ups.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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The cop character is shown being corrupt and is fired for trying to do something good.
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Is there incarceration?
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in the later seasons there is an episode or two where Amos goes to visit a buddy on prison.
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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it is not in the case of a trans or nonbinary person it is that someone changed their name because of a criminal past and their sibling is calling them their birth name.
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Medical
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When spaceships accelerate, the crews stay safe by strapping into their seats, putting in mouthguards, and then allowing a mechanism to use four short needles to inject a drug called "the juice" into their necks. The first time this process is shown, it goes well. The second time, a character struggles and tears themself free from the needles. No close ups, but even someone not bothered by needles would watch that and go "ow!"
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Does someone have cancer?
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Two characters get radiation poisoning, but the cancer is cured by technology.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Medical areas are shown on spaceships.
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Mental Health
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Halfway through episode a man on the Thomas Prince shoots himself.
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s1e02, a prisoner does a politically motivated suicide
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S1e02, there's the prisoner's political suicide, then there is also an young person who bangs his head against a wall several times.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Depends on if you consider Marco mentally ill
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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In the opening scene a character is trying to break out of a cramped holding cell. There are many tense scenes where a character is trapped in an airlock.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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One character very early on has an anxiety attack, but it is solved quickly
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Whatever Wesley Thomas said is incorrect. There is no body dysmorphia or dysmorphia-like behavior on the show as of S5E4.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Much of season 6. The 6:6 assault on Medina is unwatchable
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Spaceship scenes contain strong lighting such as from machine guns and engines.
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Is there screaming?
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In the beginning of the episode, a woman screams, around 12 minutes right after a character shouts "Watch out!" a man screams.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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In the first few episodes, a man sarcastically says "yes SIR" to a woman he feels is being too bossy. This feels like he's saying it to bully her but future episodes establish that in this universe, "sir" is indeed a gender neutral term.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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S1 it’s described a guy “had to” kill his own ill/disabled sister because she was a burden for a very poor family. It’s just a point in conversation, but it can be triggering and definitely should be put as ableist behavior in here
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Does an LGBT person die?
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S01e08 à gay married old man dies
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Is there hate speech?
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There is hate speech toward fictional groups using invented slurs, though the emotion behind them is recognizable.
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Race
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Are there nude scenes?
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S1
E1
Sex scene around the 13 minute mark
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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There are several scenes throughout the series that show men speaking of or looking at women in a sexualized way.
Notably, in S6 E1 a young man is repeatedly pursuing a woman who expresses disinterest. There is also a scene where he is having sex with a woman and though it is consensual, it appears that he is using her as an object/outlet for anger.
Notably, in S6 E1 a young man is repeatedly pursuing a woman who expresses disinterest. There is also a scene where he is having sex with a woman and though it is consensual, it appears that he is using her as an object/outlet for anger.
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Is there sexual content?
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A sex scene early on is quite explicit. We see a naked couple having sex while floating in in zero-G. Very little is left to the imagination.
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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E10
Major character dies of a stroke
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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In season 6, a child is hit by a car. This is not shown directly but the aftermath is.
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Does a car crash?
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Although it's not specifically a car, spaceships do crash.
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Does a plane crash?
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A landed aircraft is blown up by terrorists in New York.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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S1
E1
Episode 1 time stamp 6:55, dead body with blood, on screen for just a few seconds, right at 7:39 a knife is shown on the floor with blood stains, then it's over.
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Does someone drown?
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There is an implied drowning death in the 4th season, and an attempted drowning of someone else in the same scene.
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Is there gun violence?
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There’s war and criminal violence
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Spaceships regularly use nuclear missiles in combat. A city is nuked but it is only seen from space.
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