Does the dog die?
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True Detective
TV Show • 2014 • Drama
ReportAn American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
This tv show contains 95 potentially triggering events.
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Rosetastic
Season 1: Form and Void about 28 minutes in once the dog runs outside. Skip ahead to 29 minutes to avoid the graphic scene
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Abandonment
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Finn1234
Around 31 minutes, a man slaps his teenaged daughter
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Is someone stalked?
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schimazl
In chapter 3, Marty forces his way inside his ex-lover's house, physically assaults and threatens her date, screaming and pointing incapacitating spray at his face while she shouts at him to stop and leave.
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Anonymous
A father is tortured/murdered by an adult son. The same man also has a questionably consentual incestuous dynamic with uis intellectually impaired female direct relative. It appears to have been a lifelong familial abuse cycle for her, going back as far as her grandfather.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Ajb
S4
E1
The case of "Annie" that they re-visit is a woman who was brutally murdered
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Pantalones
Cyclical abuse and incest in a family going back decades. A man who was victimized by his father when he was young kills his father.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Anonymous
Interpretively; the entire season focuses on a collective of politically privileged, caucasian men, orchestrating a three decade long sprawling cover up for dozens of abductions, rapes, torture, possible sacrifically motivated murder and serial killing of socially vulnerable children and women. A routine "chain of command" system, from the state governor down, is instituted for serveral generations; making it an untouchable family tree.
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Finn1234
Child sexual abuse is an overarching theme of the first season, though no graphic sexual abuse is shown.
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Addiction
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Finn1234
S1
Drugs are mentioned and used several times throughout season 1, particularly in episode 4
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Is there addiction?
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Rafilo
Never really depicted, but talked about a lot, and the long-term effects are shown (hallucinations due to brain damage during the time of addiction).
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Pantalones
Several characters use and abuse alcohol to dull their problems.
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Animal
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Ep 1: a herd of caribou are being hunted. None get shot but they all get frightened by something when the sun sets and they all run off of the edge of a cliff. It was unclear to me if they died (it was a rocky drop and not a true clufff, it looked like something climbable for mountain goats, I don’t know how adept caribou are at navigating that sort of terrain. I also had my eyes half closed lol)
In scene 2 or 3 ish, there is a scene in what looks like a meat (maybe fish?) packing plant
In the first third of the show, there is a scene where a woman is seen gutting a wolf that is strung up outside. It’s graphic but brief.
In one of the last scenes in the episode, you see a polar bear that is missing an eye. They look mad. Nothing happens to them though.
In scene 2 or 3 ish, there is a scene in what looks like a meat (maybe fish?) packing plant
In the first third of the show, there is a scene where a woman is seen gutting a wolf that is strung up outside. It’s graphic but brief.
In one of the last scenes in the episode, you see a polar bear that is missing an eye. They look mad. Nothing happens to them though.
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Are animals abused?
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Anonymous
In the last couple episodes, dogs are threatened with physical abuse and murdered. In S1:E8 @ 0:04:45 - 0:05:05 a (cast iron?) object is thrown at a German Shepherd, possibly injuring it causing it to make a distressed yelp in fear.
In the final episode S1:E8 @ 0:28:15 a dog is verbally abused on an off until 0:29:15.
When it gets loose, it makes a terrible cry in pain (S1:E8 @ 0:29:25 off camera).
At S1:E2 @0:29:48 the camera pans past the bloodied body of the animal for about 4 seconds; the body is shown at a distance/partially obscured again 0:32:57
In the final episode S1:E8 @ 0:28:15 a dog is verbally abused on an off until 0:29:15.
When it gets loose, it makes a terrible cry in pain (S1:E8 @ 0:29:25 off camera).
At S1:E2 @0:29:48 the camera pans past the bloodied body of the animal for about 4 seconds; the body is shown at a distance/partially obscured again 0:32:57
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Is there a dead animal?
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Ajb
S4
E1
Rose is shown cutting open a wolf.
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Is an animal sad?
60 supporters
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Finn1234
Dog is yelled at, hit, and kicked throughout the episode before being killed.
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Does a cat die?
128 supporters
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Rosetastic
The last episode of season one (form & void) is pretty messed up & graphic. There are several shots that imply animal abuse. Dogs and cats. Very graphic. If you have to watch it skip minutes 28-37
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Assault
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Finn1234
A teenaged girl gets slapped by her father at around 31 minutes.
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Is someone drugged?
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Finn1234
S1
Several victims are found to have drugs in their system, and one abuse survivor describes the feeling of being drugged, but it's not shown or simulated onscreen (excluding characters who use drugs voluntarily)
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Is there pedophilia?
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frenchforletsgo
S1
not sure why someone said no, the first season is about children being sexually abused. never shown, but discussed frequently
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Is rape mentioned?
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Honestly
Graphical threatened, and then the threat is discussed. This is near the end of the episode at a scene with a car in a field upon opening the trunk.
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Is someone restrained?
18 supporters
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Finn1234
A man is kept tied to a bedframe
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CjKenyon
there is a video tape presented in the show of a young child being raped. there is a cut scene before anything graphic is shown, but it is clear what has happened and could be triggering to some.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Honestly
An individual is gagged with a cloth and duct tape and locked in the trunk of a car.
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kooltadpole
S4
Navarro and her lover have a seen where they are having sex and he tries to stop twice and she doesn’t. It’s not discussed in the show as a rape but it can be triggering for viewers.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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schimazl
Reference in chapter 3 of someone being castrated with a razor in jail, description in chapter 4 of a similar (lengthier explanation) torture and murder method used by a drug cartel involving cutting.
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Are any hands damaged?
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A frozen arm breaks off
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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schimazl
In chapter 4, during a shootout, Rusty hits a man in the trachea to incapacitate him.
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Is someone choked?
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S1
E1
Mentioning of strangulation
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Is someone burned alive?
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Rafilo
Someone has scars on their face from burnt skin though.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Buried alive in the ice
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Is there body horror?
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S4
E1
A detached tongue is shown before the intro.
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Is there amputation?
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Chinama
One of the Tsalal survivors has to have both legs amputated, his amputated legs are visible when the detectives visit him at the hospital
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Does a head get squashed?
48 supporters
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Finn1234
Not technically squashed, but a man is VERY graphically shot in the head around 17 minutes, and another man gets blown up less than a minute later. The exploded head is shown in several shots over the next two minutes or so. You're clear once Rust says, "After we confirmed the two deaths..."
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Is there a hanging?
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Animal hanging upside down
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Are any teeth damaged?
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enterthename
Someone was punched in a face so probably yes
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Pantalones
A character is gravely injured and ends up in a coma at the end of season one.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Someone seems to be having a seizure
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Rafilo
Not shown, but talked about in episodes 3 and 4.
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Is someone tortured?
68 supporters
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Finn1234
S1
Several characters are unlawfully beaten by police officers throughout season 1. Rust at one point describes a nasty cartel torture method, but it isn't shown.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Ajb
S4
E1
Not a person- but in the opening scene, a herd of elk jump to their death. The death isn't shown.
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Is there eye mutilation?
75 supporters
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frenchforletsgo
S2
in the second season a dead body is shown with mutilated eyes
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Is someone stabbed?
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S1
E1
Mentioning of superficial stab wounds, some visible.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Finn1234
Episodes 4, 5, and 8 contain the most gore.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Finn1234
S1
Not an infant, but young children are. We don't see them being abducted though.
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Does a kid die?
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Finn1234
Around 47 minutes in, Marty tells a story about a baby dying in a horrible way. We see the crime scene of the baby's death, and while the body itself is out of focus, there is blood and the scene is disturbing.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Pantalones
A girl who Marty states is underaged tries to work in a brothel.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Pantalones
Marty states he figured the killer might be some kind of "retard job."
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Finn1234
S1
Yes, a minor character. It isn't shown onscreen and is only ever discussed in vague terms.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Finn1234
S1
Yes, but not onscreen
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Does a parent die?
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Finn1234
Rust briefly talks about the death of his father, but we never meet him.
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Does someone cheat?
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Rafilo
major subplot
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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kooltadpole
S4
Liz throws a stuffed polar bear outside after a fight with Navarro
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Does a family member die?
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Finn1234
Rust briefly talks about the death of his father, but we never meet him.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
45 supporters
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Anonymous
Episode 6 has three intense jump scares just in the first 10 minutes.
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Is someone possessed?
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Ajb
S4
S4e3 when they are in the hospital...the man becomes possessed and speaks to Navarro.
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Are there ghosts?
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S1
E1
Mentioning of ghosts, suggestion is there that a ghost (child) is seen briefly.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
0 supporters
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Finn1234
S1
Many aerial shots of lakes, rivers, and bayou country, as well as scenes taking place on boats
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Is there a shower scene?
8 supporters
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kooltadpole
S4
Bath scene
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
16 supporters
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Finn1234
Around 14 minutes. Both, out of fear, though we don't see it happen.
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Does someone vomit?
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Finn1234
Yes, around 4 minutes in, while Marty is getting in the car.
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Does someone spit?
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Pantalones
S1
E8
A character spits after being head-butted in the face in the season 1 finale.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
21 supporters
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4
No
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0
Ep 1: This show centers around detectives and cops, though I will say none of them are terribly likable so far.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
28 supporters
Yes
12
No
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Rafilo
episode 4
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Is there a mental institution scene?
20 supporters
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kooltadpole
S4
Not sure if it’s exactly a mental institution but a character is admitted to a voluntary hospital stay for severe mental health issues.
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Is there a hospital scene?
11 supporters
Yes
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Chinama
The detectives visit the Tsalal survivor at the hospital. He has a creepy moment where he sits up, says a line to Navarro, and flatlines.
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4
Does someone have cancer?
13 supporters
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6
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Rafilo
Cohle mentions his father having leukemia. It's implied his father dies in the course of the series. He is never shown though.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
35 supporters
Yes
12
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0
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rustincohle
Rust visits a young woman who he rescued from abuse as a child. She is now in a psychiatric hospital and when he mentions the facial appearance of someone who he believes abused her, she has a panic attack and cannot stop screaming. She defintely has PTSD from her trauma
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Chinama
S4
Detective Navarro's sister Julia suffers from an unnamed/undiagnosed mental illness, with symptoms including delusions, paranoia, and erratic behavior. Their mother is said to have had the same issues.
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MollieTucker
S1E5: 44mins in. A scene in which a dead body has cuts on their wrists. Not for long but worth forwarding through if triggered.
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A tongue is found
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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frenchforletsgo
other comment is not true, the killer does not have d.i.d., he does put on different accents and is mentally ill, but is not implied to have d.i.d. at all
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Ajb
S4
E4
Spoiler: towards the end of the episode, a character does commit suicide. But it is not graphically shown
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
14 supporters
Yes
14
No
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Honestly
This is a major aspect of the storytelling and is integral to all episodes in this season.
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Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
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1
Finn1234
Dinner scene with background sounds of eating, silverware scraping, etc.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Add comment
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2
Are there anxiety attacks?
23 supporters
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No
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Finn1234
A girl has a panic attack around 26 minutes.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
16 supporters
Yes
5
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0
Anonymous
S4E6 narrow cave walls.
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No
8
Is there autism specific abuse?
34 supporters
Yes
2
No
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Anonymous
Mental illness is implied in two characters. The focus character has features of some altered personality disorders. A female character very obviously has a form of unspecified intellectual disability, potentially autistim and congenital disorders, which aids in her groomed exploitation and complete social isolation.
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BruckheimerFoehdh
An inmate slits his wrists in his cell off-screen. you see the aftermath. A detective also tells a woman who murdered her children that she should kill herself in jail.
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Noxious
Yes
4
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0
Are there underwater scenes?
6 supporters
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3
No
2
0
kooltadpole
S4
In the opening credits.
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2
Is there shakey cam?
29 supporters
Yes
0
No
9
0
Finn1234
S1
There are some handheld shots, but it isn't excessively shaky.
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Is there screaming?
10 supporters
Yes
15
No
0
0
Ajb
S4
The video found on Annie's phone
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Yes
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0
Yes
0
No
5
Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
10 supporters
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1
No
5
0
frenchforletsgo
S3
the main character in the third season looks at and addresses the camera frequently
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
18 supporters
Yes
8
No
2
0
zensluv
S4 E3 there's a childbirth scene and the baby is not breathing at first but manage to resuscitate. S4 E5 stillbirths discussed and scene in cemetary shows their coffins.
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Is there childbirth?
18 supporters
Yes
10
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1
Chinama
A woman has a water birth at a birthing center with a doula and other women supporting
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Yes
0
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9
Are there babies or unborn children?
15 supporters
Yes
9
No
0
0
rustincohle
Not shown, but mentioned. Including descriptions of how three infants died, one accidental and two intentional.
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No
7
Yes
1
No
7
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
41 supporters
Yes
3
No
6
1
Finn1234
Rust briefly calls someone a "fatass"
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0
No
9
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
7
No
3
Yes
1
No
6
Yes
0
No
7
Is there hate speech?
22 supporters
Yes
17
No
0
0
Finn1234
White characters use the N word and other racist slurs around 44 minutes in. Several minor characters wear white supremacist tattoos or insignias.
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Does an LGBT person die?
27 supporters
Yes
3
No
8
1
rumblescum
Tom Purcell, (the father of the missing children) is revealed to be gay when Roland finds a pamphlet about "curing" homosexuality in Tom's nightstand.
he is murdered at the end of the same episode but, we don't actually find out he was killed until the next, when his body is discovered
he is murdered at the end of the same episode but, we don't actually find out he was killed until the next, when his body is discovered
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
34 supporters
Yes
5
No
1
0
schimazl
Chapter 3, referencing whether a member of the religious congregation could have committed the first in-show murder.
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Are there n-words?
25 supporters
Yes
12
No
3
1
frenchforletsgo
S3
E2
said by a black man in s3e2
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Race
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0
No
3
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
29 supporters
Yes
7
No
0
0
Finn1234
S1
Marty hooks up with several younger women, including one who he initially met when she was underage.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
1 supporters
Yes
8
No
0
0
Finn1234
S1
Yes, religion is discussed and debated heavily throughout season 1
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
44 supporters
Yes
33
No
0
0
Rafilo
in almost all episodes
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Is someone sexually objectified?
33 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
0
Pantalones
Several strippers. The camera pans across their butts.
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Are there nude scenes?
28 supporters
Yes
16
No
0
0
Pantalones
Sex scenes and a strip club have topless female nudity.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Is there BDSM?
16 supporters
Yes
2
No
1
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Finn1234
Nothing hardcore, but a character is handcuffed during sex at around 16 minutes.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
10 supporters
Yes
2
No
1
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Finn1234
S1
Presumably yes, since children are involved. But the concept of virginity isn't discussed
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Yes
13
No
3
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Finn1234
Near the beginning of the episode, there are a few short sexual scenes (no nudity) between a character and what's later described as "at least a half-sister"
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
18 supporters
Yes
4
No
1
0
frenchforletsgo
S3
the main character in the third season is suffering from dementia
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Social
Yes
2
No
1
Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
3
Is existentialism debated?
6 supporters
Yes
10
No
1
1
Pantalones
Several times in season 1, Rust either discusses or monologs about the meaning of life and existence, or what happens after death. There is a nihilistic bent to it.
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Spoiler
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
1
No
9
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
13 supporters
Yes
17
No
2
1
In the first episode a car slides on ice and hits a light pole, narrowly missing another driver
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
12 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
0
rustincohle
Rust honks at Marty to get him to pull over at the end of episode 6
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Yes
0
No
10
Is someone hit by a car?
18 supporters
Yes
4
No
2
0
rustincohle
Not on screen, but Rust talks about his daughter dying after being hit by a car
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Violence
Yes
0
No
13
Is there blood/gore?
44 supporters
Yes
26
No
1
0
Ajb
S4
Episode 1: A tongue is found (when the delivery man drops his phone) and there are closeups of it when the detectives look into it.
There is a flashback scene from Navarro as a soldier and there is a woman with half of her head missing.
There is a flashback scene from Navarro as a soldier and there is a woman with half of her head missing.
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Does someone drown?
13 supporters
Yes
6
No
7
0
Anonymous
S4 a scene of a kid drowning, meanwhile his dad is trying to break the ice to save him. The child survives.
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Is there gun violence?
19 supporters
Yes
14
No
0
0
Pantalones
There are several gunfights. A character is shot in the head and it's very graphic.
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