Does the dog die?
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Riverdale
TV Show • 2017 • Mystery
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Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
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Your Triggers
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
46 supporters
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S7
E16
betty’s older sister, polly, is abandoned by their parents
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Abuse
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Cheryl is verbally abused by her mother throughout the entirety of the show. Veronica’s father is extremely emotionally abusive and manipulative
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Yes
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Its mentioned
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Are there abusive parents?
69 supporters
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S7
E16
betty’s mother slaps her after abandoning her older sister
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
52 supporters
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Reggie has a complicated relationship with his physically abusive father
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Is someone gaslighted?
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In Season 4 episode 4 a character makes their partner question their sanity by making them believe that their home is haunted.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
38 supporters
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S5
there's an episode where hiram mentions his dad beating him. it's unclear if it's with a belt, and it's not shown onscreen
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*****SPOILER***** betty’s father who was abused as a kid ends up being a serial killer.
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Is someone stalked?
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In season 4 pretty much all of the houses in the neighbourhood have been sent a tape that shows a six hour long footage of the house.
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Jughead's father, was, at one point, a heavy alcoholic, and we see that early on in the series.
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Jingle jangle it’s called, many kids in town take it but not much can be seen of kids taking it
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Is there addiction?
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Drug addictions
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Animal
Are animals abused?
316 supporters
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There are two replayed scenes in season four where Betty kills a cat as a child. You don't see the cat but it makes a sound
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A decomposing deer can be seen in one episode.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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S7
E5
when betty is d*ad on the table, that’s when spiders will happen soon. skip about 30 seconds.
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On 5-13 it’s revealed that dog fighting is in riverdale, however nothing is shown and the ringleader is beaten up and the dogs are saved
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Is there a dead animal?
192 supporters
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Betty kills her cat as a child because she (the cat) has been hit by a car. It’s not super graphic but there is a noise as the cat is killed with a rock.
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Are there snakes?
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But only on the southside.~
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Are there spiders?
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Cheryl wears a golden spider broach throughout the show & black widow spiders are shown on or around Veronica as she develops her powers in s6.
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Does a cat die?
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season 4 episode 5 betty murders a cat that got hit by a car gets shown twice
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Are there bugs?
1 supporters
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Only bughead 😉
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Assault
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S2
E5
nick roofies cheryl and gropes her, attempting to assault her
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Cheryl gets drugged at the beginning of season two but she is saved before she can get raped
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Is there pedophilia?
168 supporters
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S1
E1
In the first episode a sophmore student and teacher sleep together
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
146 supporters
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In season 5 ep. 2 someone is murdered and has their eyes gouged out by the killer, nothing is shown, only discussed in the morgue
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Is someone tortured?
127 supporters
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season 2 at some point- someones serpent tattoo is carved off their skin
season 2 end- a character is beaten close to death
season 3 achie is used in prison to be part of an underground fight club run by warden
season 2 end- a character is beaten close to death
season 3 achie is used in prison to be part of an underground fight club run by warden
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
82 supporters
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The janitor of the High School sends Betty his cut off finger in a little gift box.
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Are any teeth damaged?
78 supporters
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In season 3 a character’s teeth are pulled out
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Is someone burned alive?
70 supporters
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In season four Veronica burns someone alive in self-defence. It is not graphic you just see flames on their jacket
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Is there a hanging?
67 supporters
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Clifford hangs himself
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Is there cannibalism?
57 supporters
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No, but in episode 7 of season 4 a character lies to members of their family that they ate another member of the family in order to scare them away.
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Is someone buried alive?
52 supporters
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In season 4 a character is placed in a coffin overnight, but they aren't buried
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Is there amputation?
51 supporters
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In season 3, Betty's father, Hal Cooper, Cuts off his own hand in order to fake his own death.
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Does someone break a bone?
42 supporters
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A character breaks his hand/arm (?) punching through ice in an attempt to rescue another character
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Are any hands damaged?
33 supporters
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S1
E5
Archie hurts his hand playing football, and it's seen wearing a cast for the next few episodes
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Does someone have a seizure?
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season 3 episodes 1 and 3 ( or maybe 2) both have seizure scenes
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Does someone fall down stairs?
22 supporters
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Penelope Blossom, Cheryl's mom, pushes her mother-in-law down the stairs, but it happens offscreen
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Does someone fall to their death?
17 supporters
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season 3 someone jumps out of a window and falls to their death
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Yes
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
139 supporters
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honestly all through seasons 1-4 but it gets excessive for like the first half of season 7 where there’s a redicuolous amount of sex talk and sexualisation of the characters who are juniors (i beleive) in season 7. the show is notorious for sexualising minor characters (but there like no sexualisation really when they are adults just when they’re teens)
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Does a kid die?
111 supporters
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In season one a seventeen year old is murdered by being shot in the head, and in season three several teenagers are murdered at a school dance.
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Is an infant abducted?
40 supporters
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There are mentions, but it never happens
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
24 supporters
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S6
E1
jughead and tabitha get a bug infestation in their apartment, mostly roaches but maybe also bedbugs
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Death
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Does a major character die?
40 supporters
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S4
E13
A main character fakes his own death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
20 supporters
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S2
E21
Jughead attempts to sacrifice himself to end the violence happening between two gangs. He’s injured but ends up surviving.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
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S1
E11
a murder is staged to look like an overdose
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Family
Does a parent die?
41 supporters
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There are several parents who die
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Yes
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
96 supporters
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a lot
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Is someone possessed?
22 supporters
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Briefly during a seance in season 6, episode 2.
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Is there a shower scene?
15 supporters
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Shower seeexxxxx
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Are there mannequins?
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there is a dead person that is shown often and they look very mannequin esque, there is also a creepy doll thing
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Are there ghosts?
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One character sees a hallucination of her dead twin brother with his fatal injury present. He reaches toward her and she's frightened.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
171 supporters
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S2 E13 at 11:00. S3 E1 at 40:00. S3 E4 at 27:00. S3 E5 at 41:00. S3 E8 at 1:00.
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Does someone spit?
20 supporters
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In an episode in Season 3 titled “The Midnight Club,” characters spit on their hands.
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Is someone eaten?
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No
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Cheryl lies to her family that they are being served the remains of someone
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
51 supporters
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The main 4 characters frequently work with the sheriff throughout season one, and Betty works for the FBI in season 5. There's slight copaganda throughout the show but it's just at its peak in season 1 and 5.
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LGBTQ+
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No
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Yes
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No
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
48 supporters
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S4
jughead is called his birth name, "forsythe", by bret as a bullying tactic. (jughead is not trans)
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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S4
betty, who is shown as bisexual (gets together with a girl in season 7), cheats on her partner in s5
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Loss
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
42 supporters
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during season 2 cheryl is sent by her mother to a gay conversion therapy facility
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Is electro-therapy used?
33 supporters
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No but a a woman from soqm threatens a girl with "The shock chair"
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Yes
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Is there a hospital scene?
1 supporters
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There are occasional hospital scenes with characters being shot or injured throughout the duration of the show.
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Are needles/syringes used?
1 supporters
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Not used but shown
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Mental Health
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ending of season 1 a character attempts suicide by drowning.
in season 3 episodes 1 2 and 3 (all thats realeased so far) theres more kids trying to. in the ifrst 2 kids sacrifice themselves in a cult like fashion. one of them lives , only to jump out of his hospital room window. in the 3rd a girl assosiated with the 2 boys tries drinking poision but is taken to the hospital.
in season 3 episodes 1 2 and 3 (all thats realeased so far) theres more kids trying to. in the ifrst 2 kids sacrifice themselves in a cult like fashion. one of them lives , only to jump out of his hospital room window. in the 3rd a girl assosiated with the 2 boys tries drinking poision but is taken to the hospital.
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Yes
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0
S1
E13
Cheryl tries to drown herself, but is rescued by Archie
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7
A self harm joke is made in season 1. Something veronica says along the lines of, “that is so sad it makes you want to cut your wrists” refering to one of archie’s songs
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Is there autism specific abuse?
65 supporters
Yes
1
No
32
0
but one character can be in the spectrum
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
52 supporters
Yes
74
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In one episode Cheryl's mother mocks her anorexia in an attempt to belittle her.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Is there misophonia?
47 supporters
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5
No
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occasional eating scenes - all of the characters chew relatively softly and its not to triggering mostly but there are a few bad ones - usually not a concern
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
40 supporters
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Yes
15
No
2
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
39 supporters
Yes
16
No
1
0
Several characters struggling with PTSD starting in season 4 or 5
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6
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0
Yes
4
No
33
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
31 supporters
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2
No
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0
it is occasionally implied that buffy has another personality which is like her, but evil
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Yes
6
No
0
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
8
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0
Yes
5
No
1
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
1 supporters
Yes
44
No
8
6
In season four a character is put into a coffin overnight
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Are there anxiety attacks?
1 supporters
Yes
55
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Cheryl had one the first game after her brother died where someone else wore his number. For a moment, he looked like her brother and she broke down and ran to the locker room.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
1 supporters
Yes
20
No
0
0
multiple psychopaths and murderers
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
67 supporters
Yes
17
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27
0
There are multiple episodes where there is a heavy amount of camera footage, a few documentary style episodes, and a lot of camera panning and quick movements.
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27
Yes
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0
Yes
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0
Yes
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0
Yes
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2
Yes
6
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0
Paranoia
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10
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0
Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
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10
No
3
1
Season 6, episode 5. It explains the previous 4 episodes of the season and the designation of Jughead as narrator. These first 5 episodes of season 6 are part of a special event/parallel universe to make the Sabrina crossover make sense. You can skip these episodes without missing canon plot.
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Pregnancy
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0
No
11
Does someone miscarry?
43 supporters
Yes
10
No
37
1
Loads of people are saying no do I'm assuming these answers aren't up to date; in season 6 someone gets pregnant but she loses her baby.
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Yes
0
No
39
Is there childbirth?
36 supporters
Yes
7
No
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0
Not on screen just mentioned.
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Are there abortions?
25 supporters
Yes
7
No
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For two characters, they were both attempted to be forced to have an abortion, but it didn't happen. There is some other talk, but nothing on screen and nothing actually happens.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
Yes
18
No
0
0
S1
There is a visible pregnancy in the first season. In the second season, episode 15 there are babies seen.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
64 supporters
Yes
39
No
2
3
cheryl's mother does not accept her homesexuality, she has hurtful words against her daugter (season 2, ep 15)
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Are there fat jokes?
63 supporters
Yes
47
No
3
4
A character makes a comment about another's weight in the first episode
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Yes
0
No
43
Yes
0
No
14
Is there ableist language or behavior?
52 supporters
Yes
24
No
4
0
Lots of calling people "crazy" etc.
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
63
No
12
10
joaquin died bro he was gay
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
40 supporters
Yes
6
No
1
0
Queer people and drag queens are misrepresented. Kevin’s only trait is being the “soft gay guy” stereotype. The show is known for queerbaiting with scenes of Betty and Veronica kissing but no acknowledgement of their feelings for each other. They also do the same thing with Joaquin and Archie. An asexual character is straightwashed.
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Yes
0
No
43
Is there aphobia?
26 supporters
Yes
38
No
3
15
A character that is asexual in the source material is straightwashed into an allosexual much to the backlash of fans and even their own actor
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
42
No
4
Yes
0
No
30
Yes
0
No
28
Race
Yes
0
No
7
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
46 supporters
Yes
13
No
1
3
S1
Student/teacher relationship for the first part of the season.
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Religious
Yes
3
No
0
Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
0
S6
E3
Lucifer is in 6:3
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Sex
Yes
1
No
6
Yes
71
No
1
4
A character gets pregnant with a boy she didn't know was her cousin
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Is there sexual content?
84 supporters
Yes
74
No
1
9
Literally every episode
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
4
No
8
Yes
11
No
1
Yes
5
No
0
Yes
14
No
0
Sexism
Yes
10
No
1
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
29 supporters
Yes
6
No
1
0
S6
veronica is briefly given a diagnosis of her body being too poisoned for her to live, but she doesn't end up dying from it
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
7
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
1 supporters
Yes
8
No
2
0
It’s heavily implied that nana rose has memory loss
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Social
Yes
1
No
5
Yes
0
No
6
Yes
1
No
4
Yes
14
No
0
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
Yes
28
No
9
3
technically the show isn’t over yet
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
37
Vehicular
Yes
56
No
0
Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
Yes
1
No
45
0
S5
there are discussions of an off screen helicopter crash (caused on purpose by the helicopter's pilot)
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
13
No
0
Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
Yes
37
No
14
6
in season 4 a character is killed in a hit-and-run
4 comments | Add comment
Violence
Yes
62
No
0
Does someone drown?
45 supporters
Yes
63
No
3
6
A teenager is presumed to have drowned, but it is later revealed said character was murdered. Another teenager is held underwater in a hot tub until he sputters for air, but he survives.
3 comments | Add comment
Is there gun violence?
41 supporters
Yes
53
No
1
2
Guns are often used and many gunshots sound.
3 comments | Add comment
Is there a nuclear explosion?
16 supporters
Yes
2
No
43
0
there is nuclear sheltering and a nuclear bomb is shown onscreen, but no nuclear bombs go off
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Where to Watch
Yes. A dog die. Not on screen but mentioned.
Also mentioned a off-ground dog fight circle. (Where dogs die)