The L Word

TV Show • 2004 • Drama  

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This tv show contains 57 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Anonymous
mention of dog dying in story told at the campfire
season 5 episode 10
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Are there spiders?
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Are there bugs?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is there a large age gap?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Abandonment
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CMster
A main character reconnects with her father, who left when she was a kid. It does not go well.
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Abuse
Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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cactus_views
S4
Jenny stalks someone who writes a critical review of her book (pursues and dates the writer's girlfriend, seeks out her home where she yells at the writer)
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Is a child abused?
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porridge
in season 1 episode 14 tina and bette are in a physical altercation that includes a face slap, wrestling, being held down and a pretty violent sex scene
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echoevemorrow
Kind of the embodiment of Jenny
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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sorryboutit
A main character goes through Alcoholics Anonymous
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sorryboutit
Briefly during season 5 character who is an alcoholic goes through a breakup and falls off the wagon
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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funkatron
s1 episode 14
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Does a pet die?
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MynameisMo
See "does the cat die?"
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Does a dragon die?
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Assault
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echoevemorrow
In the first episode of the second season, Tim gets naked, climbs in bed with Jenny, and proceeds to take her clothes off and have sex with her, despite her saying no at least a dozen times. It's very uncomfortable to watch.
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MynameisMo
Characters have their entire lives and sexual encounters in their house filmed without their consent. It is the season with the film-maker roommate and is a plot point throughout that particular season.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Bodily Harm
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sorryboutit
Shaving scene at end of season 2, cutting scene season 2 episode 13 minutes 47 to 51. Self mutilation is mentioned throughout season 3. Two or three times throughout the entire show someone shaves without harming themselves.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there excessive gore?
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cactus_views
S6
No, however the series ends with a character dying in a swimming pool
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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echoevemorrow
S1
Jenny faints
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sorryboutit
S4 e4, kid breaks his arm, nothing is explicitly shown
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there amputation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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cactus_views
S3
 E12
S3E12 through S4E1 a plotline that involves separated parents suing each other for full custody that culminates in one parent abducting the child away from the other.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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0
There is talk of Shane and a friend being under-age sex workers
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Does a kid die?
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Death
Does someone die?
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CMster
S3
 E10
It's really really upsetting, but not entirely unexpected.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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CoriM
Character describes men as "emotionally r******d "
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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sorryboutit
Season 2 episode 12, parent dies of cancer. funeral in episode 13
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Does someone cheat?
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MynameisMo
Everybody cheats all the time! The majority of the relationships seem to involve cheating
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Better kidnaps her daughter from Tina
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Are there razors?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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MynameisMo
S1
 E6
3:50, Tina is pregnant and throwing up. Audio, no visual, she runs to the bathroom.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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sorryboutit
Minor character in season 2 has cancer, and it's a major plot point in season 3 where a main character has cancer.
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Anonymous
season 3, episode 7, around 5 minutes in
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sorryboutit
Late in season two there are two different characters who go to the hospital, one for cancer, one for birth. Season 3 a main characters has cancer and there are a handful of hospital scenes.
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Mental Health
Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there misophonia?
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CMster
It's in the era of very loud mouth noise kissing, which triggers my misophonia
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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sorryboutit
Transgender character introduced in season 3 has body dysmorphia
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sorryboutit
Season 6 episodes 1 and 8, with the same person, it is unclear whether they died by suicide or other cause
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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CoriM
A character introduced in S4 has PTSD from her time serving in Iraq. They show flashbacks from her time in the military.
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sorryboutit
Season 5 episode 9 two characters get stuck in an elevator
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Does someone self harm?
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sorryboutit
Season 2 episode 13, explicitly shown from minutes 47 to 51.
S3 E1, self harm cuts are shown
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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sorryboutit
very rarely
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sorryboutit
in various club scenes throughout the show
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Does a baby cry?
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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sorryboutit
Season 1 episode 9 or 10 Tina miscarries. Nothing explicit is shown.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Are there abortions?
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Anonymous
It’s not made, but a character that is having an unwanted pregnancy tries to abort, but cannot do it because it’s too late
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Is there childbirth?
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sorryboutit
Season 2 episode 13, at home birth gets moved to the hospital for safety reasons
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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sorryboutit
Season 3 episode 10, main character dies at the end of the episode. Season 6 episode 1 opens with a main character death, which is revisited episode 8, minute 57.
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Is there hate speech?
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funkatron
r slur is used
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there n-words?
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CoriM
A character uses the word in passing saying that his father uses certain slurs one of which is the n word.
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porridge
they use the word d*ke and f*g pretty often. sometimes maliciously and other times in a lighthearted manor
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sorryboutit
Several characters are androgynous and/or trans occasionally get misgendered by side characters. Main character, Jenny, does not like to correctly gender, Max, a trans man
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Does the black guy die first?
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Sex
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sorryboutit
At least once an episode there is a sex scene, both homosexual and heterosexual, but usually the former. There are a total of 97 scenes throughout the 6 seasons
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there bestiality?
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Are there nude scenes?
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LauraMcG
Nearly every episode has visible breasts, and many have female full frontal nudity
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LauraMcG
Every episode as the main characters drool over other women
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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sorryboutit
Series ends with a main character death and no resolution to the death
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
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Olybug
Jenny accidentally hit a man on a bike with her car door. He's fine just a bit steamed. season 1 don't remember what episode. maybe 10th possibly earlier.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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sorryboutit
Season 2 episode 13, self harm from minutes 47 to 51
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Is there gun violence?
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sorryboutit
Season 5 episode 3 woman is robbed at gunpoint, no one is harmed
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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