Fringe

TV Show • 2008 • Drama  

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FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
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Does the dog die?
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In episode 115 a woman who is walking her dog is abducted and killed. Her dog isn’t physically hurt, but it’s later stated that he was tied up to the fence outside her house, whimpering. In episode 118 they raid a scientists house where a dog is in a cage and it is evidence that he has been tested on. The scientist is also seen drilling open a dead animal which may or may not be a dog. In episode 214 a n**i kills a dogs human. The dog is physically unharmed but cries over his dead human’s body.
Eratosthenese
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Does a pet die?
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S1
 E16
I don't think they got all the animals out of the lab
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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One main character shares their story of being abused as a child. A flashback episode later shows the abuse. Children are used in experiments.
pennybaker
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Is there domestic violence?
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S1
 E5
Joseph Meegar's mother is verbally abusive towards her adult son.
suricata_passer
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S2
 E21
Nick Lane tells Walter that while he did damage him and the other Cortexiphan subjects, he also "made [them] special"
suricata_passer
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S3
 E11
Peter is gaslighting Walter multiple times during the episode.
suricata_passer
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Is someone stalked?
30 supporters
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S1
 E6
Agent Dunham receives a birthday card from her abusive former stepfather, indicating that he knows where she lives.
suricata_passer
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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S3
 E15
Walternate does and is confronted about it by his wife.
suricata_passer
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S3
 E5
Prime!Olivia abuses antipsychotics in order to suppress her hallucinations of Peter.
suricata_passer
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Animals are used continuously in experiments. In episode 116 animal rights activists break into a lab and we see many animals apparently distressed and in cages. Olivia later goes to an animal testing lab. The conversation is rough because it talks a lot about animal testing. We see animals in cages though don’t see any abused on screen. In episode 118 a dog is in a cage having been tested on, and Walter infects a rat with syphilis and tests a potential cure on her. The rat squeals and struggles. It doesn’t work, and the rat dies. In episode 202 Walter uses a frog in an experiment.
Eratosthenese
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
272 supporters
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S3
 E2
A rat is killed by the ultrasonic frequencies emitted by the box.
suricata_passer
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Does a horse die?
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Are there bugs?
53 supporters
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There are bugs in a few EPs, but definitely stay away from season 3 ep 13 if they trigger you, the plot centres around lots of bugs.
luxch3rry
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Are there snakes?
27 supporters
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S1
 E16
Hissing and described
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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S2
 E2
The skull of a dog, found by Olivia and Peter
suricata_passer
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Assault
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S1
 E11
However, a character who is a known sexual harasser appears and makes light of his own actions
suricata_passer
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Is someone drugged?
43 supporters
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S1
 E8
Walter Bishop is sedated without his consent
suricata_passer
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S1
 E8
Walter Bishop is restrained after starting an altercation with a former fellow inmate.
suricata_passer
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Bodily Harm
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A shot in season 3 episode 9 “marionette” a man has his eyes removed.
Season 4 episode 3 “alone in the world” a man attempts to give himself a lobotomy, stabbing through the orbital socket — the eye itself is not harmed but it is an unsettling visual
ErinOmaista
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S1
 E1
See comment above, especially in the first few minutes of the episode.
suricata_passer
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Is someone tortured?
129 supporters
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S3
 E15
Olivia is experimented on without her consent, for instance by being left alone without any explanation and confronted with the seemingly dead body of her friend.
suricata_passer
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there body horror?
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S1
 E7
The victim is infected by a parasite that chokes his heart.
suricata_passer
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S4
 E1
One of the perpetrators does pull a naill off of his finger, though.
suricata_passer
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Does a head get squashed?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there a hanging?
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S2
 E4
There are several frozen heads
suricata_passer
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S1
 E9
A minor character's throat is slit
suricata_passer
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Is there cannibalism?
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S1
 E18
A woman is infected with a bacterium that forces her to feed on human spinal fluid.
suricata_passer
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S1
 E1
In a short scene, Walter Bishop cuts off his beard with scissors
suricata_passer
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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In episode 1 (season 1) a man is suffocated by a pillow
Katla
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone choked?
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S1
 E8
Agent Olivia Dunham in her fight with the kidnapper
suricata_passer
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S1
 E1
Peter Bishop crushes a suspect's fingers several times with a coffee cup.
suricata_passer
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Is someone stabbed?
30 supporters
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S1
 E16
Not with a weapon. But animal attack
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Children
Does a kid die?
113 supporters
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S1
 E12
A teenager is the first victim
suricata_passer
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Is an infant abducted?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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S2
 E18
Several shapeshifters
suricata_passer
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S2
 E1
SPOILER
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Charlie Francis is revealed to have been killed and replaced by the shapeshifter at the end of the episode
suricata_passer
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S3
 E8
Colonel Broyles from the alternate universe.
suricata_passer
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Does someone die?
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S1
 E1
An entire airplane full of passengers and crew, as well as a minor character who is the lover of a protagonist.
suricata_passer
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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S1
 E18
Jefferson Bays plays Dr. Nicholas Boone, who is wheelchair-bound.
suricata_passer
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
42 supporters
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S2
 E11
The father of Teddy, the kid picked up by a cop at the beginning of the episode, gets killed in a shootout with Peter
suricata_passer
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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S1
 E12
The parents of the first victim appear and are interviewed.
suricata_passer
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Does someone cheat?
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Yes, but accidentally (said character unknowingly slept with his partner's alternate universe counterpart)
graywolf2010
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Is someone kidnapped?
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S1
 E10
Agent Dunham is abducted by people affiliated with Robert Jones at the end of the episode
suricata_passer
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Fear
Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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A few episodes deal with beings/phenomena that appear to be ghosts.
JacobHildebrandt
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Are there mannequins?
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S1
 E20
The ocean is shown, as Walter Bishop and the Observer are waiting at the beach. Also, a lake called Reiden Lake.
suricata_passer
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Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
175 supporters
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2
5
Season 1 episode 1, 1:48
ML
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Is there audio gore?
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Is someone eaten?
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S1E1 Walter says that he's p*ssed his pants when they're in the car on the way back from St Claire's.
Katla
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Does someone spit?
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Is there defecation?
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Large-scale Violence
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twin towers are both seen standing unharmed in the alternate universe, there is references to this but no actual depictions as far as I'm aware (although there are episodes where plane flights go awry so be careful if that's triggering)
luxch3rry
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
52 supporters
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5
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S1
 E11
Trope of the good cop being targeted by the bad Internal Affairs officer
suricata_passer
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Is there incarceration?
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2
LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
33 supporters
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0
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4
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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0
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5
Are there transphobic slurs?
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5
Yes
0
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Loss
0
S2
 E13
Several old books of German literature with annotations by Walter's father, Dr. Robert Bishop (who worked as an antifascist spy for the Allies during WWII), containing scientific notes, were sold by Peter and used for a paper collage portraying Adolf Hitler.
suricata_passer
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Medical
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S1
 E4
Dr. Walter Bishop incapacitates Agent Astrid Farnsworth using a syringe.
suricata_passer
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Is electro-therapy used?
35 supporters
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8
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3
Yes
11
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5
0
S4
 E5
Nadine Park was suffering from melanoma before being turned into a shapeshifter.
suricata_passer
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Is there a hospital scene?
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0
Is there menstruation?
4 supporters
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0
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5
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S1
 E8
Walter Bishop returns to the mental institution he was released from in order to gain plot-relevant knowledge. In order to do that, he pressures a former fellow inmate, leading to a scuffle between them and Walter getting sedated, as well as being (temporarily) re-institutionalized.
suricata_passer
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Mental Health
1
S2
 E2
Character named Hughes who is being held suspect creates a noose out of wire and hangs himself. You see him pulling apart the wire with his teeth (which causes his teeth to bleed) and making the noose, and then you see his body hanging for a few seconds. Timestamp 25:53 is when we start to see him making the noose, Hanging body is shown at 27:15. Entire scene is over at 27:20. Body is shown again and closer at 27:40 as it discovered, second scene is over at 28:01. So skip 25:53-28:01 for these scenes. They are interspersed between the scene of Olivia and Peter exhuming the body of Hughes' wife and child, they find out the body of the child is missing and it looks like something dug it's way out of the coffin.
PirateBrainRot
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S1
 E12
The perpetrator threatens to shoot himself in a stand-off with Olivia Dunham
suricata_passer
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Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
117 supporters
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1
No
7
0
S4
 E20
It's not pictured on-screen but a character talks about dealing with life's pain by cutting
Kateplplay
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
52 supporters
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6
Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
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5
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2
0
S2
 E7
White noise-inducing headphones are a central plot point of the episode
suricata_passer
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S1
 E10
Three of the robbers are veterans suffering from PTSD and related issues
suricata_passer
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4
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2
Yes
7
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2
0
S2
 E14
Olivia, arguaby, from being experimented on when she was a child
suricata_passer
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Is there body dysmorphia?
35 supporters
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2
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2
Yes
13
No
1
0
S1
 E13
Olivia is once again submerged in a tank.
suricata_passer
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0
S2
 E5
Used as a plot twist, a dream drug-induced split personality
suricata_passer
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Does someone have a mental illness?
16 supporters
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Yes
11
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0
Does someone have a meltdown?
13 supporters
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1
No
2
0
S4
 E1
Walter has several visions of his son, Peter, over the course of the episode
suricata_passer
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No, but alt. Astrid is heavily implied to have asperger's, which her father is unable to understand
graywolf2010
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Yes
7
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3
0
S4
 E4
Walter suffers from one after having to sleep in a different apartment for the first time in several years.
Cameron does, as well, as a result from being experimented on as a child.
suricata_passer
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
66 supporters
Yes
4
No
6
0
Very much in S1E1, during the car chase scene.
Katla
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Does a baby cry?
27 supporters
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Yes
5
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2
Is there screaming?
21 supporters
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Yes
33
No
1
Is there obscene language/gestures?
13 supporters
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0
No
3
0
S1
 E1
During the scenes in the beginning set in the airplane
suricata_passer
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Paranoia
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I believe they’re literally called The Watchers lol
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Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
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7
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
53 supporters
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0
No
6
Does someone miscarry?
44 supporters
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Yes
1
No
10
Yes
7
No
7
0
S1
 E2
A woman goes through a highly accelerated pregnancy and dies in childbirth
suricata_passer
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Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
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14
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4
1
Several rapid pregnancies
invadermac
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
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Yes
5
No
3
Are there abortions?
1 supporters
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0
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9
Prejudice
Yes
1
No
8
1
I don't think there are any canonically LGBT+ characters on this show, which might actually be worse
graywolf2010
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Are there usages of the n-word?
41 supporters
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0
No
7
Is there hate speech?
41 supporters
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0
No
6
Yes
1
No
8
0
S1
 E17
The first victim is a teacher and mother of a toddler. Her death is initially surmised to be a suicide.
suricata_passer
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S2
 E8
Chinese people are misrepresented imho, also the plotline seems very white savior-ish (disclaimer: i am a white person, so take that with a grain of salt)
suricata_passer
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Walter is repeatedly called insane
graywolf2010
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1
One episode revolves around a literal n**i attempting mass murder via chemical weapon and asphyxiation. His first target is a Jewish wedding.
ErinOmaista
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Are there homophobic slurs?
1 supporters
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0
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7
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
1 supporters
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0
No
6
Yes
1
No
5
0
S4
 E1
Walter Bishop uses a fatphobic insult towards an FBI agent
suricata_passer
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S2
 E11
People with genetically induced deformities are misgendered/dehumanized by referring to them as "it"
suricata_passer
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Race
Is there blackface?
47 supporters
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6
Relationships
Yes
3
No
3
0
S2
 E4
Walter is revealed to have been in a relationship with Rebecca Kipner, a former student and test subject during his and William Bell's time at Harvard
suricata_passer
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Religious
Yes
2
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2
0
S2
 E15
Argument between Dr. Carla Warren and Walter Bishop about the ethics of potentially shattering the borders between ujniverses
suricata_passer
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
120 supporters
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0
No
6
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
100 supporters
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0
No
10
Yes
11
No
3
0
S1
 E1
A (probaby) post-coital scene in a hotel between one of the protagonists and her lover
suricata_passer
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Are there nude scenes?
70 supporters
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1
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4
Is there BDSM?
38 supporters
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0
No
3
Sickness
Yes
3
No
2
0
S1
Walter Bishop often display short-term memory loss and confusion in a way that resembles someone with dementia or Alzheimer's
suricata_passer
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Yes
4
No
2
0
S4
 E5
The human shapeshifters are, technically.
suricata_passer
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Does someone have a stroke?
21 supporters
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1
No
2
0
S3
 E10
A minor character suffers from asthma.
suricata_passer
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
45 supporters
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0
No
3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Are there end credit scenes?
1 supporters
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0
No
4
Yes
3
No
2
1
Bittersweet
graywolf2010
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
33 supporters
Yes
28
No
1
0
One character dies in a car crash in the first episode, in addition to other instances
pennybaker
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Yes
20
No
2
0
S1
 E3
One of the antagonists commits suicide by running in front of a bus at the end of the episode
suricata_passer
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Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
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Yes
12
No
2
Does a car honk or tires screech?
16 supporters
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Yes
34
No
1
Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
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Yes
64
No
0
Does someone drown?
48 supporters
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Yes
8
No
2
Yes
51
No
1
0
S1
 E8
The kidnapper gets shot by her associate in one of the last scenes.
suricata_passer
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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