Pretty Little Liars
TV Show • 2010 • Drama
ReportThis tv show contains 87 potentially triggering events.
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dynamicmassive01
A dead pig inside the trunk of a police car is used as a plot device in 4x01.
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arii
A dead pig.
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dynamicmassive01
One episode has the villain use a snake to scare a main character helping out in a fashion-type event.
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NC98
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Ella Montgomery gets attacked by bees
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arthurmoreira7138
A character in season 6/7 thinks she’s seeing ghosts and goes to a mental institution. The main villain makes one of the girls think she’s gone crazy after seeing a dead loved one in the woods during the end of season 3.
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arii
Pretty much every single "A" stalks the girls.
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irinav
There is lots of emotional abuse by parents in this show
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Grel222
A side character is seen to deal with alcohol and drug abuse and has relapses throughout the series, in the first two series there is a young side character sent to rehab over drugs. Around series 4 one of the main characters is shown to be addicted to pills.
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irinav
As for graphic drug use, there are one or two scenes of someone smoking a joint and several scenes of someone taking pills (ADHD medication / amphetamines). There are mentions of other drugs but no details described I think.
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dynamicmassive01
One character is mentioned to have spent the whole of high school partying with marijuana and alcohol and later becomes an alcoholic. In season 2 he relapses and causes a car accident. His absence during season 4 is explained as him relapsing and seeking counselling.
Two characters suffer from alcoholism at the beginning of season 5 due to the issues brought about by a characters return, it is toned down, however.
Two characters suffer from alcoholism at the beginning of season 5 due to the issues brought about by a characters return, it is toned down, however.
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bananawagon
I think there are several instances of this and every one of the girls has been restrained.
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MaxxMaxx
A cop abuses his power over a woman and enters sexual relations with her in exchange to stopping an investigation against her daughter.
A teacher knowingly enters a romantic & sexual relationship with his student when she is underage. This is discussed as generally negative but with no lasting consequences. They are portrayed as a good couple.
Attempted rape in season 1, another character intervenes.
In Season 7 there are two instances of somebody being tricked into sex by their partner's twin (under the assumption that that person is their partner)
A teacher knowingly enters a romantic & sexual relationship with his student when she is underage. This is discussed as generally negative but with no lasting consequences. They are portrayed as a good couple.
Attempted rape in season 1, another character intervenes.
In Season 7 there are two instances of somebody being tricked into sex by their partner's twin (under the assumption that that person is their partner)
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Lostomat
The relationship between Ezra and Aria is based on it, since Aria is a minor and Ezra grooms her.
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c4tgifs
(S1) the girls find a video of jenna forcing toby into sex but they shut it off before anything really happens
(S1) emily is nearly r*ped by her boyfriend in the change rooms but he's fought off by toby
(S1) emily is nearly r*ped by her boyfriend in the change rooms but he's fought off by toby
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HylianPrincess97
A cuts Aria's hair while she's asleep, while it's not shown on screen, Aria wakes up and chunks of her hair are on the pillow. This happened in Season 5 I think
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NC98
No but Noel Kahn gets beheaded by Emily & Hanna in Season 7 by accident, it was in self-defense.
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arthurmoreira7138
Not really, but there’s an explosion that makes a character to go blind in 1x02. Aria is burned for a few seconds in 6x18 but is sent to a hospital and gets better.
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Leonieke
A finger gets cut off in season 7 you don't litteraly see it but you do see the finger.
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MaxxMaxx
This is a theme throughout the show. Characters are seen being buried, one is seen struggling to get out (we can see their hand). Characters describe what they imagine it to feel like.
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NC98
- Caleb almost suffocates trapped in an enclosed space that heats up quickly;
- Spencer almost suffocates trapped inside her shower that heats up quickly;
- Allison gets assaulted & choked until Emily shows up.
- Spencer almost suffocates trapped inside her shower that heats up quickly;
- Allison gets assaulted & choked until Emily shows up.
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irinav
Hanna breaks a leg when she is hit by a car in season 1 or 2 I think
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NC98
The girls get pyschologically tortured throughout the show but especially in the Doll House in season 5 & 6.
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arthurmoreira7138
One of the characters has his head chopped off.
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irinav
Dentist appointments are vaguely mentioned in some episodes, but as far as I remember, no details about tooth damage are discussed in this context. Human teeth are shown (removed post-mortem, no obvious signs of trauma) in 3x02.
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bananawagon
In a flashback a drunk girl does from being pushed down the stairs at a party.
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NC98
Ian is murdered by getting pushed off a church tower by his then fiancée after he was attempting to murder her half-sister.
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MaxxMaxx
A character is seen on screen hanging.
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Kleenex123
All the main characters are minors and they are all sexualized at some point
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dynamicmassive01
Many of the characters that die in the first and second arcs (seasons 1 through 6) are high-school aged.
A horror story is told in which a young girl (pre-teen) stabs her twin sister
A young boy in a mental institution is said to have overdoses on pills, we later find out his death was faked.
A high school girl is murdered and found in her girlfriends back yard, her body is seen being taken by police in a bodybag. She is said to have had her throat crushed with a pipe.
A high school girl is knocked off a sound stage and hits her head severely; killing her in the process.
A teen girl is buried alive after having her head by a shovel.
A horror story is told in which a young girl (pre-teen) stabs her twin sister
A young boy in a mental institution is said to have overdoses on pills, we later find out his death was faked.
A high school girl is murdered and found in her girlfriends back yard, her body is seen being taken by police in a bodybag. She is said to have had her throat crushed with a pipe.
A high school girl is knocked off a sound stage and hits her head severely; killing her in the process.
A teen girl is buried alive after having her head by a shovel.
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dynamicmassive01
A character mother dies when he is young by being pushed off of the roof of a mental institution.
Another mother is killed off-screen and buried in her neighbors backyard.
A girls father dies off-screen during a 5 year time-jump.
Another mother is killed off-screen and buried in her neighbors backyard.
A girls father dies off-screen during a 5 year time-jump.
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MaxxMaxx
Some of these instances are discussed as negative, others are brushed over
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MaxxMaxx
The theme of being kidnapped plays a role throughout the series when trying to solve a missing person's case of a teenage girl. In season 5 the protagonists are kidnapped and tortured, this plays a role until the end of the series.
One child gets kidnapped but not harmed when a character takes it away to a nearby place to scare another character.
One child gets kidnapped but not harmed when a character takes it away to a nearby place to scare another character.
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NC98
Jumpscares are a reoccuring trend in the show.
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NC98
- Hanna climbs into the shower with Caleb in Season 2 to keep him living at their house hidden. While there was tension between them, they didn't act on it at the time;
- Spencer gets trapped & almost suffocates to death in the shower in Season 3.
There's several others.
- Spencer gets trapped & almost suffocates to death in the shower in Season 3.
There's several others.
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abixo
There is quite a lot of shots with clown masks, but not as much for a long time.
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dynamicmassive01
Although not supernatural in nature several characters have visions of a character believed to be dead; other characters hallucinate deceased characters at one point.
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tegan
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season 4, episode 17 at 25.20, just when aria says ‘i gotta go’, it cuts to hanna at the dentist, she spits out some mouthwash into the sink, there’s audio and visual of the spitting.
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lolhii
SPOILERS season 7 either episode 8 or 9 when ali goes back to the school, when all the hooded kids are sitting in the classroom and she walks in don't listen for like 5 secs ali is lent over a toilet you can hear it but not really see it // especially in the last 2 seasons a lot of characters say "i'm gojng to be sick" and run off, however nothing is shown with them so it's okay to watch
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arthurmoreira7138
There are some screams in season 5 when Mona is “murdered” by Charlotte.
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dynamicmassive01
A torture device set up by the villain has characters sit at a device with images of their friends and switches, they get told that they must choose one of the friends to be electrocuted or they all will be. It later emerges that this was about the psychological aspect of the torture and none of them were actually electrocuted.
In season 7 upon finding a basement of files; the characters discover that when having her sister institutionalised, one character authorised electro-shock therapy to be used on her. Although it is never explicitly stated or shown it is implied that the character suffered due to this.
The main villain of the show spent almost the entirety of her life in a mental institution; it is implied that she was forced to undergo electro-therapy
While exploring a sanitarium; the characters find electro-shock therapy devices.
In season 7 upon finding a basement of files; the characters discover that when having her sister institutionalised, one character authorised electro-shock therapy to be used on her. Although it is never explicitly stated or shown it is implied that the character suffered due to this.
The main villain of the show spent almost the entirety of her life in a mental institution; it is implied that she was forced to undergo electro-therapy
While exploring a sanitarium; the characters find electro-shock therapy devices.
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gretchen.roberts
One of the girls mums gets cancer although it is only briefly talked about
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abixo
So many, it's one of the key settings in the story.
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abixo
Emily uses syringes in season 6
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cheesemelt
Season six especially.
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arii
By the end of the series, most of the girls have had anxiety attacks due to the constant torture. Mostly Spencer and Aria.
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NC98
Hanna suffers from body dysmorphia in Season 1 & Season 5.
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abixo
Yes, SPOILER:
Ian dies from suicide but then it's later found out it was not a suicide.
Ian dies from suicide but then it's later found out it was not a suicide.
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dynamicmassive01
One of the main characters suffered from an eating disorder prior to the show. She is taunted about this by the villain.
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johnknee
All of the main girls suffer from PTSD, although it’s not shown much there are a few scenes in early season 6, and some flashbacks to their trauma throughout the show
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sussubrasil
Aria gets trapped in a box and is almost thrown on the tracks of the moving train
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saryah.mccord
a character self harms while in a mental hospital using tweezers she stole from a friend
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Thursday
Ezra does say something like “I’ll have to hurt myself” as a joke during season 1 talking to Aria after class
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irinav
Whenever the recording of Alison and some guy at the Kissing Rock (recorded the night she disappeared) is show, it does get shakey at some points
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dynamicmassive01
One episode has a character get locked in a fun-house at a carnival, lots of neon and bright/flashing lights. A different episode has a police officer unknowingly under the effect of a drug (cannabis) and losing his footing and blacking out at an arcade, again lots of neon and bright lights.
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sophresaa
In season 7, the girls get a board game with a smartphone. At some point, the smartphone starts screaming continuously like a baby.
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abixo
Melissa does multiple times, but it is only mentioned in 1 or 2 episodes.
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MaxxMaxx
One character is revealed to have had an abortion many years ago, this causes harm to their reputation. Other characters are shortly seen discussing the possibility of abortion.
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arthurmoreira7138
When it’s shown Spencer’s birth at Radley.
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HaileyGreen
emilys girlfriend is murdereed
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irinav
Throughout the show there are several ableist remarks, like referring to a psychiatric clinic as "the looney bin", mentions of "driving the short bus", saneist language like "crazy"/"sick" when meaning "evil"/"harmful"/"bad", etc.
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Njh3852
In season 1 (not sure if it runs through I’m only at season 1) The same character who had an eating disorder prior has flashbacks of Alison judging her for her weight, calling her “Hefty Hanna”
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Thursday
In season 1 a side character Lucas is referred to as “hermie” and “shim” as a way to bully him by implying he’s a hermaphrodite (not quite misgendering but feels close enough to being transphobic)
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bananawagon
- Aria's dad Byron (45) and Meredith (24) making the age gap 21.
- Ezra (23) and Aria (16) making the age gap 7.
- Ezra (22) and Alison (15) making the age gap 7.
- Ian (24) and Alison (15) making the age gap 9.
- Ian (24) and Spencer (15) making the age gap 9.
- Ashley (44) and Darren (34) making the age gap 10.
- Wren (24) and Spencer (16) making the age gap 8.
- Wren (30ish) and Alex (23ish) making the age gap roughly 7/8.
- Ezra (23) and Aria (16) making the age gap 7.
- Ezra (22) and Alison (15) making the age gap 7.
- Ian (24) and Alison (15) making the age gap 9.
- Ian (24) and Spencer (15) making the age gap 9.
- Ashley (44) and Darren (34) making the age gap 10.
- Wren (24) and Spencer (16) making the age gap 8.
- Wren (30ish) and Alex (23ish) making the age gap roughly 7/8.
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arii
Yes but no graphic nudity is shown.
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MaxxMaxx
One character knowingly enters a relationship with their cousin (first believed to be their half-brother) but strongly denies any sexual relations happening. The cousin was not aware that they are related, it is implied that he was sexually attracted to the other person.
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Xacei
Early on in the show, Caleb (a foster kid) is living in the school.
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Leonieke
In season 5 someone is obviasly pretending to be santa
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arii
Nothing sad actually happens at the end, it's a happy ending. However, like all shows, when they come to an end it is naturally sad.
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Baka_desu
In the book around chapter 25-26 Hannah gets in a accident involving a deer.
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dynamicmassive01
There are two instances of minor car-crashes in which headlights are seen approaching the side-window, both instances involve the driver being taken to hospital however they have no injuries. A mid-season finale ends with the image of a pickup having apparently veered off the road, glass and luggage can be seen lying on the road and the driver and passenger can be seen to be unconscious. The passenger succumbs to her injuries a few episodes later.
One episode contains a scene where a car crashes through the front porch and living room of a characters home, no-one is injured or killed and it is implied that the driver bailed out prior to the crash.
An intoxicated character crashes his car into the rear of another, no injuries or deaths.
A characters mother is involved in a moderate car crash (not seen on screen) the villain sends another character a text message with the image off the totalled car as a threat. The son mentions that his mother felt like she was being ran off the road and it is heavily implied that this was the case.
A character disappears from town and subsequently police arrive at his family's home with his wrecked motorcycle.
One episode contains a scene where a car crashes through the front porch and living room of a characters home, no-one is injured or killed and it is implied that the driver bailed out prior to the crash.
An intoxicated character crashes his car into the rear of another, no injuries or deaths.
A characters mother is involved in a moderate car crash (not seen on screen) the villain sends another character a text message with the image off the totalled car as a threat. The son mentions that his mother felt like she was being ran off the road and it is heavily implied that this was the case.
A character disappears from town and subsequently police arrive at his family's home with his wrecked motorcycle.
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NC98
Due to the painkillers impairing Emily, she hits her head against the side of the pool during a competition. She is dragged out of the pool by several people & transported to the hospital.
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arthurmoreira7138
Yes mostly in season 5 when it’s shown a video of one of the main characters getting stabbed/hit to death. However later this video is proved to be fake.
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NC98
Spencer gets shot in the shoulder in Season 7.
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