Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
A character tells a story of their mother abandoning them in a forest in the middle of the night at a young age (around 8 iirc) and having to find their way home. This was in the past and is told as a story, not shown.
The plot of the show revolves around the abuse in the main characters family. Very little of the abuse is physically violent, but there is domestic/familial abuse in every episode.
There is a prolonged party scene in which children and adults both take hard drugs. Alcohol, opiates, and psychedelics are all shown/ talked about being consumed.
There are also scenes later on where a young character takes pills before an event, which triggers the next plot point.
Alcoholism is a key plot point and the drug/alcohol culture is a big part of the setting.
There are ZERO horses in this series. Therefore, there are no horse deaths. I think this series is being trolled, because this category should be entirely 100% NO votes.
Despite the town being dependent on the factory farm, and the many characters connected to it, there are NO on-screen animal deaths for the entirety of the series, beyond some details that imply it happens regularly in the town, like the workers with bloody clothes, or everyone in town eating large quantities of bacon, sausage, and ham. So, this category really should be 100% NO votes.
Beginning of the episode: a bunch of drunken teens are chasing a fearful piglet in the park, playing some stupid hick game of Capture The Pig.
24 minutes into the episode: A character walks through a pig factory farm, where we hear lots of squealing, and see pigs and nursing piglets contained in pens that are way too small, typical of the horrendous meat farm conditions.
Bloody, dead pig’s head is shown up close. The detective uses it, in his kitchen sink, for understanding a tooth-pulling technique and the required strength to remove teeth. Approximately 34 minutes into the episode. You have plenty of warning to look away, since we see the detective carrying a bloody plastic bag from his car to his room, prior to the contents being revealed.
There is a past group assault that is brought up in flashbacks and conversation, the lead up to the assault is shown but none of the assault itself & no clothes were removed. It is implied to be a common occurance in the area, and the victim plays it off.
There is also a dubiously consensual sex scene between an 18 and 37(ish) year old. Both characters verbally consented, but the age gap and questionable mental states of both characters can make the scene uncomfortable.
arguably a character's self harm scars, since they're all words and plastered over her entire body. also, in a flashback, we see a teenager who attempted suicide and there are guts, insides etc on the floor. also, graphic self harm with a bolt.
One of the murdered girls has teeth ripped out, and while the removal is not shown, her open mouth is shown onscreen. Later, someone pulls a pig’s teeth out with pliers
The sexualization of young girls is brought up repeatedly throughout the series, but never explicitely. A young (13ish) girl is shown hitting on grown men, and there are conversations/implications about young girls using sex as social currency or a way to get drugs. It is a common enough theme I cant name the episodes it appears in.
Kind of, its one of those cases that doesn't exactly qualify as a jump scare because its not really meant to scare you like horror movies do, but they have a unique editing and montage style that's really effective, but also uses things like quick flashes of people and things, especially some of the more brutal imagery, to convey their message and a few definitely caught me off guard and made me jump.
At 47:42, it’s pretty short but Amma gets sick after Adora gives her medicine. She gives her medicine many times this episode but this is the only time she gets sick.
Someone almost pricks themselves with a needle under the fingernail and then almost opens an old scar with a needle. At the end of the episode, they draw a needle across their leg while wearing tights and across their stomach (no blood).
The book/show as a whole is about the cycle of abuse and mental illness in women. Not every character who shows signs of mental illness is violent, but every character who does harm either themselves or others show signs of mental health problems. Only one character has a potential diagnosis named. The diagnosis is mentioned towards the end of the show, and seemed to be the ‘reason’ that character has abusive tendencies.
SPOILERS— the diagnosis is munchausens syndrome by proxy, and it seems to be the explanation for a character’s actions.
VERY graphic suicide via drinking bleach (or some other cleaning solvent) is shown at the end of the episode. Flashes to the scene are littered throughout the episode (and in episodes previously, however, now as much as this episode) and the body is shown fully at the end. I wouldn't suggest watching the last 5-10 minutes of the episode if you're even the slightest bit sensitive to suicide; It is extremely triggering.
late in episode seven, starts right after camille remembers seeing her mother with amma as a baby. after young camille is shown on the stairs, the crying lasts for about ten seconds.
It has a lot of montages that use things like lights and images shown quickly throughout the show to convey different feelings, so personally I would say yes. They also use some of the more disturbing images to emphasize this sometimes which could be considered jumpscares. But they aren't rapidly flashing or changing color a lot, just some well edited montages that uses some quick imagery.
She is never watched but in episodes 1 and 2 during some scenes where Camille is driving, she looks into the forest as if she is looking for someone watching her; The way it is framed MAKES it feel like she's being watched.
One character is implied to be gay because he is sensitive. He’s called the F slur and is generally derided/bullied by people in town. Camille also refers to a person in her past whose nickname was the F slur.
no. jic it might upset some for vaguely similar sentiments, a young man is mocked/seen as suspicious for being “sensitive”, as this is seen as too feminine.
Yes and no. Mexican imligrant workers are a part of the town culture. The white part of town is shown being very racist (realistically) towards them. The area the migrant workers live in is shown as a shitty destitute trailer park type of area.
This show does contain racism directed towards the mexican migrants and to the few Black characters in the show, but in my opinion as a mexican it is shown realistically. The characters of color are not depicted in a bad light, the white people just hate them anyway.
There are at least two instanced of f*g, once to say they think a gay man comit the crime, and once as a part of a nickname given to the daughter of a lesbian. Other than that gay men are referred to as “their kind” and joked about that they would hit on a barely legal high schooler.
There is an entire episode revolving around the towns love of the confederacy, including all the flags and attire.
Both Black characters were in service positions, and it’s mentioned and shown how a Black girl was bullied by her ‘friends’ growing up. Both Black characters are used to catalyze a white woman’s emotional development, and neither have much of their own personality or agency.
Mexican migrant workers make up a part of the town population and are treated terribly. Their neighborhood is called beant*wn by white characters. Mexicans are also used as a general scapegoat multiple times, and plenty “build a wall” type of sentiment is given off by white characters. Again, none of the mexican characters have their own plots, personalities, or agency.
Overall this takes place in a predominantly white part of the confederate rural south and it is not hiding that fact nor glorifying it. It should be noted that there are very few non white characters, and all of them are mostly used as plot devices.
There is a sex scene between a highschool senior (18) and a character in their late 30s. The older character is mentioned to be the same age as some of the parents of 12 to 18 year olds in the area. The relationship lasts less than one episode.