The Sinner
TV Show • 2017 • Mystery
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Your Triggers
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Season 1: Religious abuse is a major topic. For example, young Cora is made to blame herself for her sister's chronic illness because she is a "sinner" who accepted chocolate as a gift. There's also emotional and verbal abuse. Season 2: A boy is raised in a cult that contains abuse, though it is unclear how much he is exposed to as a victim or witness. Vague discussion about Ambrose's mother being abusive and neglectful toward him when he was young.
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S1E7: A man verbally abuses his ex-girlfriend. S2E5: A man is roleplaying with Vera, who is standing in as his ex-wife. The man slams her to the ground, yelling at her, pounding his fist on the floor, and spitting on her.
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Are there abusive parents?
71 supporters
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7
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S1
Cora's and Phoebe's parents, are abusive. The abusive is centered around religious beliefs for the most part.
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Is someone gaslighted?
44 supporters
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[SPOILER] Season 2 involves a child having recurring "nightmares" of a hooded figure, but there is actually someone there. The woman who raised him constantly tries to convince him it's a dream.
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Is someone stalked?
31 supporters
Yes
15
No
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S3
Both in the plot and mentioned
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
32 supporters
Yes
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2
Season 1 involves heroin addiction. Season 2 mentions a woman with a drug addiction.
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Yes
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Yes
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S1E3: Discussion of heroin use. S1E7: Cocaine snorted. S1E8: Injection of heroin.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
315 supporters
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A baby cow is kept for a ritual and killed
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Yes
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S2E5: A cow is sacrificed off-screen.
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Does a pet die?
268 supporters
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The Mosswood members are specifically told to treat the calf as a pet, to love him and name and hand raise him.
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Yes
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S1
No dog fighting is featured.
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Is there a dead animal?
194 supporters
Yes
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It's implied that a calf gets sacrificed, but it's not shown on screen.
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Are rabbits harmed?
125 supporters
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S1
No rabbits are featured.
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Does a dragon die?
54 supporters
Yes
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S1
No dragons are featured.
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Are there bugs?
53 supporters
Yes
3
No
7
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There's a close-up of ants crawling on sand at the end of S3E7.
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Yes
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Assault
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Season 2 Episode 8
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S1E7: While Cora is under the influence of cocaine, she believes she is having sex with JD, when she is actually being assaulted by another man. S2E5: A woman is pinned to the floor while a man degrades her and yells "Do you wanna feel me?" No sexual assault on screen, though the imagery plus information revealed in later episodes suggest it could have occurred. S2E6: Mention of sexual assault and a resulting pregnancy. S2E8: On-screen rape of a teenager.
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Is there pedophilia?
169 supporters
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^ The person who said that is mistaken. No Ped in season one. The incident they're talking about is when two sisters are talking about the only man they know, their father (Since they're highly religious and boys aren't allowed, they are curious about male parts) It is not implied at any point that the Father is abusing them sexually or in any way displaying any form of ped. They mention the incident like they saw him on the way to the shower or something similar. It may as well have not been mentioned, as there's no point to them saying that as far as the story goes.
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Is rape mentioned?
126 supporters
Yes
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S2
E8
Happening on screen
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Is someone drugged?
44 supporters
Yes
8
No
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S1
Someone being drugged is a major plot point.
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Is someone restrained?
41 supporters
Yes
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S1
Someone is physically restrained and kept hostage.
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Is someone held under water?
40 supporters
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S1
E1
No one is held underwater, but in the first episode, there is a mild indication of Cora trying to drown herself.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there excessive gore?
143 supporters
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S1
Some people may not consider it excessive, but with an abundance of caution, I'll put this here. There is quite a bit of blood, a gory stabbing, mutilation of the inner arm, a close up on someone being shot in the head, and a loud crunch of someone's sternum and/or ribs being broken.
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
85 supporters
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The main character (Detective Ambrose) likes to be tortured by someone stepping on his fingers
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Does a head get squashed?
82 supporters
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S1
E4
There is a shot of someone's head after they've been shot and it may evoke a similar emotional response.
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Is someone burned alive?
72 supporters
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The other contributor misread the question. It's burned, not buried. Nobody is burned alive in this show.
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Yes
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Is someone crushed to death?
58 supporters
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S3
E4
Person imagines a baby being crushed
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Is someone buried alive?
55 supporters
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Season 3, episode 6 and 7.
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Yes
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
46 supporters
Yes
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Season 3, episode 7: someone buried alive
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Does someone break a bone?
43 supporters
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S1E3: Bones are heard crunching as someone steps on a ribcage. S1E7: A ribcage breaks.
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Is someone choked?
34 supporters
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S1
Person has a kink with choking
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Are any hands damaged?
33 supporters
Yes
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S3
Knife is stabbed through hand
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Is someone stabbed?
30 supporters
Yes
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No
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S1
E1
Someone is stabbed 7 times on the beach.
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Does someone have a seizure?
28 supporters
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Season 3, episode 6: due to drug overdose
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Does someone fall to their death?
21 supporters
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Season four, episode one. Someone jumps off a cliff
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Children
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Does a kid die?
113 supporters
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S3E3 Its all in his mind but Jamie has a hallucination that Nick is crushing his newborn babies bones in his arms. Very hard to watch !!!
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Death
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Does someone die?
1 supporters
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S1
There are several deaths and murders in this season.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
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S1
E7
It is unspecified exactly what kills one character in episode 7, and could easily be interpreted as an overdose due to this characters disabilities causing her to have a lower tolerance.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
42 supporters
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14
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Mentions of parents dying on several occasions.
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Yes
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Does someone cheat?
30 supporters
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12
No
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S1
Cora's father is cheating on his wife. Detective Ambrose is also having an affair.
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Is someone kidnapped?
20 supporters
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[SPOILERS] In season 1, it's revealed that Cora was held captive and drugged. In season 2, Julian is taken on a "road trip" by two adults from the community where he was raised. He is later kidnapped by his biological mother, who he does not know at all, and then the woman who raised him.
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Fear
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Yes
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Is someone possessed?
23 supporters
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In season 2 it is mentioned that during a ritual they look possessed
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Are there clowns?
18 supporters
Yes
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No
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Not clowns but in season 1, a guy wears a creepy mask which might be upsetting to people afraid of clowns.
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Is there a shower scene?
14 supporters
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S1
E1
We see Cora taking a shower.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
4 supporters
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S1
There is a lake in the first episode. There is also a lake that we see several times during a guided meditation.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
177 supporters
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* Emetophobe review *
S2E1 - skip from about minute 9 to minute 11. A woman coughs a lot and then v*s. You then see the stuff on the floor and on her for several shots. It is NOT "brief" like the other contributor said. Even looking away and covering my ears, the glimpses I got were quite triggering. There are also very brief but graphic flashbacks of it in S2:E3, when Julian is being interviewed by the psychologist.
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING ⚠️
If you need to skip the scene in episode 1, but still want to know what happens (it's very important), the parents die. The man chokes and falls while showering. The woman gets s* and convulses. The boy backs away, looking terrified.
S2E1 - skip from about minute 9 to minute 11. A woman coughs a lot and then v*s. You then see the stuff on the floor and on her for several shots. It is NOT "brief" like the other contributor said. Even looking away and covering my ears, the glimpses I got were quite triggering. There are also very brief but graphic flashbacks of it in S2:E3, when Julian is being interviewed by the psychologist.
⚠️ SPOILER WARNING ⚠️
If you need to skip the scene in episode 1, but still want to know what happens (it's very important), the parents die. The man chokes and falls while showering. The woman gets s* and convulses. The boy backs away, looking terrified.
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Is there audio gore?
73 supporters
Yes
6
No
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S1
The sound of someone's bones breaking is a repeating theme throughout the season.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
33 supporters
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S1:E7 Phoebe says she peed herself. It's not shown on screen. S2:E1 At 16:05, it shows the wet crotch of a boy's jeans, implying he wet himself.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
8 supporters
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No
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S1
Cora's incarceration is a major theme of this season.
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Is there copaganda?
0 supporters
Yes
4
No
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TV show focuses on a detective
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LGBTQ+
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3
Yes
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Loss
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3
Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
54 supporters
Yes
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S1E3: Syringes shown but not used on screen. S1E7: Syringe being pulled out of someone's arm. S1E8: Syringes used quite forcefully, including a repeated in-and-out motion meant to damage veins.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
42 supporters
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Specifically a drug rehab center S2E4: Police interview a woman in a psychiatric institution. She gets upset, starts hitting herself, and is carried away by staff. S2E5: Brief flashback to a psychiatric institution.
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Does someone have cancer?
28 supporters
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S1E3: Mention of a death due to lymphoma. S1E6: Scene in an oncology unit. S2E3: Mention of a death due to cancer.
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Yes
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Mental Health
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No
6
2
First episode of S4 someone jumps off a cliff
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
126 supporters
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Yes
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No
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S2E4: A woman becomes frustrated and starts hitting herself. S2E6: A boy scratches himself until he bleeds.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
51 supporters
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1
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8
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S1
A character is taught some unhealthy behavior around food, specifically chocolate, but it is never directly said or implied that she has an eating disorder.
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Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
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0
There are some sounds that triggered MY misophonia, but everyone's triggers are different. There isn't a character who experiences misophonia, if that's what the question means.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
48 supporters
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6
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1
0
Armchair diagnosis alert! PTSD like situation in season one. What seems like antisocial personality disorder in the third season.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
44 supporters
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Yes
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5
Yes
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0
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
35 supporters
Yes
11
No
5
2
In Season 3 somebody is buried alive
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Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
Yes
5
No
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0
S1
E5
Phoebe insists that she's not pretty and compares herself to Cora.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
30 supporters
Yes
20
No
0
0
S2
E7
Julian has a panic/anxiety attack around the 35 minute mark until about 35:30. This is not the only instance, I will try to come back to update it.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
15 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
0
S1
Potential spoilers: someone has PTSD.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
13 supporters
Yes
2
No
1
0
S1
Cora has several times where she's unstable, but they are not autism specific meltdowns.
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
64 supporters
Yes
5
No
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0
S1
There are a few, rare moments of shaky cam.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
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No
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0
Camera flashes and police car lights.
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Does a baby cry?
28 supporters
Yes
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No
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S1
Cora's baby cries and a baby in JD's house cries.
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Is there screaming?
22 supporters
Yes
3
No
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S1
There are a few instances but they are not intense and very far between.
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Yes
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1
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
23 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
0
S1
Mason watches JD's house several times as well as watches him in a bar. JD also watches Mason's father in one known instance.
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Pregnancy
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3
Does someone miscarry?
44 supporters
Yes
13
No
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1
It's mentioned, not shown.
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Yes
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No
7
Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
Yes
11
No
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1
S02E06
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Are there abortions?
27 supporters
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No
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S2E4 and S2E6: Mention of an abortion that was actually a forced sterilization.
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Yes
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No
1
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
Yes
4
No
2
0
S3E4, the three letter f word
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Yes
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No
6
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
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No
5
Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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7
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3
2
In season 3 there are references to a student having depression. Her parents act as though having depression is something shameful which she should hide from the public.
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
5
No
8
2
I disagree with the other voters who said yes because of Marin. She was very affectionate with her best friend and they kissed sometimes but that's because the best friend was gay. Marin was uncomfortable with it -- because she WASN'T gay.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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5
Relationships
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No
1
Sex
Yes
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No
2
5
S1E6: Phoebe insists that Cora kisses her the way Cora kisses her boyfriend. Phoebe then convinces Cora to touch her breast and guides Cora's hand into her underwear. S1E7: Phoebe and Cora kiss.
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Is there sexual content?
83 supporters
Yes
32
No
0
0
S1
Sexuality and sex are a major theme of this season.
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Yes
10
No
0
Yes
7
No
1
Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
0
S1
At least 2 characters lose their virginity.
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Sexism
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0
No
4
Sickness
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1
No
2
Yes
3
No
0
Yes
1
No
3
Yes
7
No
1
Social
Is existentialism debated?
16 supporters
Yes
2
No
1
1
S3
Basically entire season 3
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Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
2
No
2
0
S1
A woman is seen asleep on the street and may be homeless, but it is not specified.
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Spoiler
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No
3
Yes
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No
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
34 supporters
Yes
5
No
6
0
S1E2: Someone's feet are shown as she jumps in front of a car and honking is heard.
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Does a car crash?
34 supporters
Yes
10
No
7
2
Season 3 is all about a car crash
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
0
No
10
Violence
Is there blood/gore?
83 supporters
Yes
24
No
0
2
S1E1: Someone is stabbed seven times. He is shown bleeding profusely. Flashbacks to this moment as well as photos of the crime scene are shown throughout the series. S1E6: Someone is found shot in the head. S1E8: Someone's arms have severe wounds due to heroin use. Someone bleeds due to blunt force trauma. A syringe is used quite forcefully in someone's arm. S2E1: Someone hits their head on the floor and lies in a pool of blood. S2E3: Someone is stabbed in the neck. S2E6: A boy scratches himself until he bleeds. Hemorrhaging during childbirth. S2E7: Someone is shot. S2E8: Crime scene.
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Is there gun violence?
43 supporters
Yes
15
No
3
1
S01
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Yes
0
No
11
Does someone drown?
1 supporters
Yes
2
No
8
0
S2E6: In the lake, investigators find a car with a body in the driver's seat. This is believed to be suicide via drowning, though the act is not depicted.
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