Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
SPOILER: A father tried to send his daughter away saying they would see eachother later. He died before they did and the story begins with her attempting to reunite with him. In some ways this may be triggering.
French has a negligent mother. Steve has a bad relationship with his dad, leading them to attempt to send him to a military school. When the school is picking up Steve, they hit him and tackle him so that he submits to them.
In 1x04 HAP confirms that he hunted down the other prisoners while finding The OA was an accident. Later on in the season we see him *actively* stalking a woman in order to kidnap her.
It mentions that Scott had an addiction and had to go through withdraw (not seen). S2 SPOILER Jesse deals with drug addiction, throughout and ends up overdosing, causing his death.
Shown use is mostly in Part 2 but Steve is selling drugs out of the house at the beginning of Part 1 which he later stops. SPOILER Hap does use a gas drug to make them compliant but I dunno if that matters.
Part 2, episode 3. While driving, Steve hits what looks like a possum. It is briefly visible laying in the road and struggling to breathe. Jesse mercy kills it with a rock. The scene is not graphic.
There isn’t actual sexual assault, but the protagonist’s kidnapper and abuser does have a “crush” on her that is very uncomfortable and has a constant looming threat of sexual assault.
in season 1 unsure what episode, Steve is legally kidnapped into the troubled teen industry, he is restrained by 2 men, he is rescued by BBA shortly after
SPOILER People may argue that it is not torture and that Hap is simply doing a scientific study but that does not change the fact that he forces them to experience NDEs by drowning them over and over again.
Hap and Rachel are fighting after she discovers what he is doing in a secret room, he pushes her over and she dies of a head injury, she falls from standing to the floor
throughout season 1 multiple people are drugged multiple times with a gas, it is assumed this knocks them out but is later revealed it makes them do whatever anyone says while they are under the influence of the gas
While the age gap is very 😬, it’s confirmed that Alfonso is 18. Still gross because he’s still in high school, but he’s not a minor. We know his age cause there was only an amber alert for one of the boys.
no abduction but for a while Nina is living in a house used as a brothel and the women sell their babies to people who can't legally adopt, she is then sold to a couple, her new parents are nice but this scene implies they sell many children so its easy to imagine not all of these scenarios are safe for the children
the show is about experiencing near death experiences so multiple people die and come back, in season 1 the OA feels a dead body in the bath tub, and one of the people being held captive dies and Hap shows the others his body, they manage to bring him back, in season 2 episode 2 Rachel is killed
It's not a horror genre, but there are a few jump scares such as someone startling awake after a bad dream, or an attacker coming out of nowhere during a quiet moment
Season1: -Prairie accidentally drinks the water people have been cleaning up in (soapy) and sputters and coughs it out. Not entirely vomiting, but a character calls it 'vomiting'. There's a big and obvious lead up to it so more than enough time to look away. Season 2: -After Hap et al make the jump from the field, Rachel projectile vomits onto the ward floor (sudden) -After Steve spent the day doing the movements on the beach, he walks into BBA's cousin's home and vomits into the sink (I think, I looked away. There's a long lead up to it)
Buck is misgendered and deadnamed multiple times by his family, we see him correct them once and from then they use his name, but continue to misgender him
As established in Part1, Buck Vu is a trans man. At one point his parents use his dead name and improper pronouns and later on argue about it. Part 2 SPOILER OA is in a different dimension and it turns out, in this one the character we know as Buck goes by his deadname and uses she/her. This could be because in this dimension he is not Buck but it could also be that he isn't out. Regardless, watching people misgender him even though they don't know any different caused me to experience negative feelings and some dysphoria so be warned.
Most of the characters who die are not clearly stated to be part of that community but SPOILER Part 2, The bodies of French, a gay man, and Buck Vu, a trans man, are shown and are dead.
SPOILERS Part 1 Nina's school bus crashed and fell into a body of water. SPOILERS Part 2 Very minor but Karim purposefully backs into a van with little resulting damage, just to get someone's attention.
as well as other stuff there are 2 scenes where a character is shown bleeding from the head, one of them dies (season 2 episode 2) the other is brought back to life
Drowning is a very persistent theme throughout the show. The characters drown multiple times and it appears very often so you should not watch this if drowning upsets you.
The main character bites back a rottweiler who was attacking her. The dog whimpers but isn't harmed