Tipping the Velvet
TV Show • 2002 • Drama
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Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama serial based on the best-selling debut novel by Sarah Waters of the same name. It originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Sally Head Productions. It stars Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, and Jodhi May.
Directed by Geoffrey Sax, the novel was adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies. The production was made available on DVD by BBC Worldwide soon after broadcast.
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Second episode, there is a fight in a carriage after they leave the opera
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a man grabs the protagonist and tries to raper her but is stopped by another character
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No purposefully done self-harm cutting in this show; but they do show someone very briefly getting a shave, hair being cut a couple of times, and some blood coming from a possible cut(s) on one character's head/face.
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There is an orphaned baby and the mother’s death during childbirth is briefly described, but no parents die during the series.
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Yes, end of episode one/beginning of episode two.
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A streetwalker is picked up by a client in her carriage and brought home, and the client implies that her porter could capture her if she tried to flee. Ultimately she consents to becoming a kept woman. So it is exploitive, but not kidnapping per se.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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It is not shown, but described after the fact. There is a baby in the series (episode 3) that came to the family after the mother’s death in childbirth.
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The main character Nan who the story follows never states for sure how they consider themselves, but if I had to I would say they were gender fluid or non-binary. But this could perhaps be a trigger to someone as they are called both she/her and he/him at different points throughout the mini-series and it isn't always clear as to which they would prefer and when.
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the n word is used
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Very minor (Nan is struck and has blood on her forehead).
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