Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
This tv show contains 96 potentially triggering events.
I haven't watched it yet, but I think the people voting yes are just trolls. They voted yes on "Does a Dragon Die?" so...
I'll come back and edit this once I watch!
EDIT: NO DOG OR ANY OTHER ANIMAL DIES IN SEASON 2.
An old man begins to lose his short term memory, and is completely unable to remember things that have just been said. When playing a game against another character, he asks for things to be repeated. This other character lies about how the game is going in order to win.
There are several times where a character is tricked/betrayed by someone they trust.
A dead fish is cut at a market for food, nothing bad really and there's fish that have died in a bowl when he visits an apartment to look for his brother but nothing terrible. The series is brillant and coming from someone who's overly sensitive to animals dying most of you should be ok! I recommend
About halfway through the episode, Number 28 (a solider) confronts Number 29 (Jun-Ho in disguise) before their dive to deliver the harvested organs to the buyers about suspicions he is not who he says he is. After Jun-Ho demands answers about the previous night’s victim’s identity, Number 28 says that it was a girl. When Jun-Ho is not convinced, Number 28 says that all the soldiers “took turns having sex with her” beforehand. (It’s unclear if she would have been conscious or not since she was significantly injured in the day’s game.)
There's a mini side story where some "staff" members and a player who's a doctor traffick organs from deceased players, one mentions to an undercover cop that they took turns to rape a woman before taking her organs
No assault occurs and the writing frames it as an uncomfortable scene but you do watch as onlookers jeer upon hearing that a man was coerced into performing sexual acts.
It’s pretty bad if you can’t handle these kinda stuff. There’s a scene at the end of the 6th episode (it continues in the beginning of the 7th too) where people start physically fighting in the men’s bathroom. One of the characters is on top of another, choking him, then we see his face freeze in a very up close shot and then it pans down to the fork being stuck into his throat/jaw. Then we see the other character’s face as blood is pouring down onto him. It’s very graphic.
First episode some gangsta man sticks his finger in the main characters blood and sucks it off. Says he tastes good and will make a soup out of him but that's as far as it goes.
In the first episode the main character is hit in the face and his nose bled. the beater wiped blood away and licked the blood from his thumb, then intimidated him further by holding a shiv to the inside of his nostril. but does not cut him.
If you've seen the first season at all, this is a good comparison. It's less gory that S1, but there is way more violence and blood. Especially in last 2 episodes of S2
Many of the "players" that die were parents and at the end Gi-Hoon's mother dies from diabetes.
Sae-Byeok mentions that her dad died while scaping North Korea.
No but if you don’t want upsetting imagery around children’s toys/games this is NOT the show for you. Twisted versions of various games and toys throughout.
Although they aren’t quite jump scares, there are several instances where a character is suddenly shot which can be alarming. The sound and visual cut to someone dying is often very abrupt with no warning.
The comments about player 299 are about a scene from the reality show and NOT about season 2.
Nobody v* in episodes 1-6.
Episode 7 is not safe.
At minute 4:59, someone on the boat v*.
It announces itself. The man gags in his sleep (starts at 4:39) and then runs to the railing outside. It is only a few seconds until 5:05.
After the workers come back to the room with the players (after the alarms are sounded), they demand the old man to get up, and they pull his blanket off of him. It's revealed that he's wet himself.
No slurs. There is transphobia against a trans character like someone saying “men are men and women are women” and calling the trans person “unsightly” (at least in the English subtitles)
An old woman asks to her son “is that a man or a woman?” To her son referring to a trans woman. The son then explains how people can transition to another gender if they feel comfortable. This is not meant to be cruel and the old woman understands.
I highly doubt that none of the characters have no mental illnesses or disorders, but none are mentioned or implied to be the reason why they're violent.
im not entirely sure if this counts? but in the second game they all start licking the candy, and theres a few close up shots of the tounges while they do.
eating disorders arent mentioned or shown, but the characters frequently state disappointment with the amount they're eating, if underfeeding is triggering to anybody.
there is a conversation in episode 2 about how a pregnant woman almost didn't make it to hospital and almost lost her baby because of it, if that counts
No, but the "depraved homosexual" trope is depicted in s01e07. (An older man with a decadent lifestyle tries to sexually assault a younger adult man and fails. )
A very old man with a brain tumor and health problems gets picked on, and is rarely picked for teams in the games. But some characters make sure he isn’t left out.
We don’t actually know if a character is LGBTQ+ or not, but there are a couple of characters that many people who are LGBTQ+ deem to possibly not be straight, and they die.
The one woman that almost gets raped is sexualized and called pretty and looked at in a predatory manner. Also another man says he will take another man ex and make her his woman after he is killed
S1E4: Sex scene in a restroom. S1E7: Lot's of naked people, but with full body painting, so there's not much to see. In the same episode there's also a naked man to see from behind.
It is revealed that a character’s wife was pregnant and that they tried to convince her to abort it because she has an illness and needs a transplant but she refuses and says she will give birth even if it kills her. It is not shown in a bad nor a good light, but it is mentioned.
No explosions happen, but it is worth mentioning that a bomb is shown onscreen and talked about when two character descend a ladder. It does not explode.
I'll come back and edit this once I watch!
EDIT: NO DOG OR ANY OTHER ANIMAL DIES IN SEASON 2.