The Act

TV Show • 2019 • Crime  

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A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.
This tv show contains 31 potentially triggering events.
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Episode
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Does the dog die?
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is there bestiality?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there a large age gap?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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12
Is there domestic violence?
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8
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silencesilence
Gypsy kills her mother after years of abuse.
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Is someone gaslighted?
10 supporters
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32
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Is a child abused?
33 supporters
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47
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5
amelie
Yes... the entire show is based around Gypsy's life where she was abused by her mother

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Addiction
3
Amnyc
The girl is given medication and the mom takes pills, and the friends smoke weed.
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Is there addiction?
3 supporters
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32
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6
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the mother abuses prescription drugs throughout the film
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21
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6
1
the wolverine cosplayer mentions to gypsy that he is in the hospital due to an alcohol related incident
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Animal
Does a horse die?
23 supporters
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24
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
49 supporters
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30
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29
9
JasonJ623
Episode 8, she takes her guinea pigs outside and leaves them before leaving town with Nick. It’s assumed that they’re left for dead.
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Are animals abused?
60 supporters
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5
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20
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ThelmaTodd
At one point a guinea pig has a bleeding paw from an accidental splinter.
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20
Is there a dead animal?
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1
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8
Does a cat die?
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27
Does a dragon die?
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24
Are there spiders?
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22
Are there snakes?
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19
Are there bugs?
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19
Assault
Yes
6
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viviandgnr
gypsy is forced to use a wheelchair throughout the series, even though she can walk, and dee dee attempts to restrain her by tying her wrists together with ribbon in episode 4 beginning at 43:45 (right after smashing gypsy's laptop).
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26
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DorianHayes
on the ominous facebook post, it says that gypsy was raped, but this isn’t shown
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Bodily Harm
Yes
42
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Elh_smith
The young girls head is shaved with a very clear sound of the hair being cut witch is a bit unsettling
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ThelmaTodd
No but the symptoms of anaphylaxis are discussed in detail a few times including throat swelling and being unable to breathe. These things are not shown happening.
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Is there cannibalism?
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11
Is someone crushed to death?
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3
Is someone burned alive?
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27
Is someone buried alive?
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10
Is there amputation?
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9
Does a head get squashed?
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20
Is there a hanging?
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Yes
50
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7
Lkj55928
A tooth falls out with blood while brushing teeth. Extensive non consensual dental work is done, leaving her without most of her teeth. Very emotional scene about tooth loss
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Does someone break a bone?
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18
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22
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skos97
There is mention of epilepsy as one of the main character's conditions.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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7
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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23
Is someone tortured?
30 supporters
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30
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6
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Katrinae
Technically not torture, but the scene at the dentist is very disturbing.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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4
Does someone fall to their death?
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Raymesserli
eye surgery is mentioned but it's not relevant to the plot nor is anything other than fundraising for it shown
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Is there excessive gore?
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1
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3
Children
Does a kid die?
13 supporters
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22
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
14 supporters
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4
Family
Yes
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6
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ThelmaTodd
A stuffed animal is ripped and a button eye pulled off as one of the characters fidgets anxiously with it.
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Does a parent die?
3 supporters
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45
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Amnyc
Yes (no spoilers here, the show is based on this fact.) So far, in the first two episodes, you do see glimpses of her dead body.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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9
Does someone cheat?
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13
Fear
Is someone possessed?
4 supporters
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19
Are there ghosts?
3 supporters
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Raymesserli
in a regularly mentioned and once shown scene a very young gypsy mistakes Spanish moss for ghosts but no real ghosts
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Are there clowns?
6 supporters
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1
In the background at the convention you'll only see it if you really pay attention
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Are there jumpscares?
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4
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Yes
27
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6
PoppyLydamore
Gypsy is often shown in the bathtub
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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5
Does someone vomit?
31 supporters
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23
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JasonJ623
Episodes 1-8 thus far there is no vomiting.
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Does someone spit?
5 supporters
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30
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Beef
Gypsy spits at her mom in episode 4 @44:00
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Is there audio gore?
14 supporters
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10
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1
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
4 supporters
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5
Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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18
Is electro-therapy used?
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20
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20
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8
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Amnyc
Gypsy allegedly has cancer.
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48
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0
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ChristineJohnson
Episode 4 it shows her mother getting injected with insulin
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Yes
34
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0
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skos97
Quite a few, but not typically shown as a trauma inducing location.
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Mental Health
Yes
5
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Raymesserli
spoilers ish

in episode 5 gypsy's boyfriend nick kills dee dee and gypsy hears it happen, she is shown having flashbacks throughout the rest of the show.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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2
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18
Does someone self harm?
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0
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23
Is there autism specific abuse?
14 supporters
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2
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7
Is a mentally ill person violent?
8 supporters
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9
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0
2
Happypants
The girl is “sick” and cant eat - and is fed through a tube in her stomach.
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4
Is there misophonia?
14 supporters
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8
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arsenicarisen
Second to last episode near the very end has Gypsy clip DeeDee’s toenails. Very irritating as she struggles
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22
Are there anxiety attacks?
10 supporters
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23
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2
Yes
10
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15
1
catmeres
there is a scene where two people were hiding in a small closet hiding from police
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
7 supporters
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8
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0
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ThelmaTodd
Episode 6 in particular has a lot of baby crying sounds.
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Is there shakey cam?
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0
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20
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bananawagon
The cop scene with flashlights
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
3 supporters
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0
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5
Pregnancy
1
Raymesserli
there is a scene of someone giving birth and gypsy is shown as a baby and as a very young toddler multiple times
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Are there abortions?
7 supporters
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0
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15
Is a baby stillborn?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
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6
Does a pregnant person die?
5 supporters
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0
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15
Yes
21
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7
1
Beef
In the beginning of episode 6 there is an entire scene of DeeDee giving birth to Gypsy
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Does someone miscarry?
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0
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21
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
15 supporters
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0
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14
Yes
0
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9
Is there hate speech?
7 supporters
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24
Does an LGBT person die?
14 supporters
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0
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21
Are there homophobic slurs?
17 supporters
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0
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9
Yes
18
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0
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
10 supporters
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0
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6
Does the black guy die first?
4 supporters
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0
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18
Are there n-words?
5 supporters
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0
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11
Sex
Is someone sexually objectified?
9 supporters
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3
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0
Are there incestuous relationships?
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24 supporters
Yes
7
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11
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adonis0523
Covert Incest. Covert incest, also known as emotional incest, is a type of abuse in which a parent looks to their child for the emotional support that would be normally provided by another adult. It's a non-sexual form of emotional-incest.
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38
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1
4
Chuurroo
Quite a few in my opinion. an explicit photo is also used when gypsy joins the dating site
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3
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0
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Ocelot8910
There is a picture of male genitals shown, Gypsy is shown nude from behind, and Nick's butt is visible during every sex scene.
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Sexism
Yes
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4
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
3 supporters
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0
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3
Social
Yes
4
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0
1
Raymesserli
its mentioned multiple times that dee dee and gypsy were homeless after their home was destroyed in hurricane Katrina but this is never shown
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Spoiler
Yes
21
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0
0
Nunya33
Gypsy misses her mother and imagines her there with her in her cell.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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0
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22
Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
2 supporters
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0
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19
Does a car crash?
4 supporters
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0
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18
Does a car honk or tires screech?
3 supporters
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0
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4
Is someone hit by a car?
5 supporters
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0
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19
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
0 supporters
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0
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22
Does someone drown?
4 supporters
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0
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20
Is there blood/gore?
15 supporters
Yes
34
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0
1
Beef
EPISODE 4: (3 minutes in), Gypsy's mother is at the doctors and get her finger pricked, which draws blood. Additionally, there is period blood shown in the beginning of this episode as well after Gypsy is in the bath (at 2:35 minutes in) .
EPISODE 6: During a scene where DeeDee is giving birth, there is a pool of blood shown briefly (@2:05)
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Is there gun violence?
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0
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18