How to Get Away with Murder
TV Show • 2014 • Crime
ReportThis tv show contains 27 potentially triggering events.
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S2E3 time stamp 5:28-5:55 ish. Rat caught in trap has life ended via hammer rag very quickly. No gore very very minor sound.
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S3E3 @07:18 a close-up of an ant walking across the floor, only lasts for two seconds.
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It happens in pretty much every episode.
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Typically for crime and legal work and not in relation to domestic abuse related crimes
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Many mentions of child sexual abuse throughout the series, but it is never shown
Off screen, but there are one or two episodes where you hear the audio of a video that of child sexual abuse and exploitation for a few seconds. The characters watching are disturbed
Off screen, but there are one or two episodes where you hear the audio of a video that of child sexual abuse and exploitation for a few seconds. The characters watching are disturbed
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On screen depiction of cocaine and heroin use, discussion of the sale and use of other drugs, bags of meth pulled from the trunk of a car. Also LOTS of alcohol use.
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The main character is an alcoholic
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Lots of sexual abuse of minors discussed in multiple episodes. In the episode called "Meet Bonnie," there's a brief video recording played in which a man speaks to his young daughter in a way that makes it clear he is about to sexually assault her, but the assault itself is never shown.
S4E4 @28ish minutes, a woman is sexual with a character who doesn't consent. She holds her hand over his mouth and says "shut up and take it."
S4E4 @28ish minutes, a woman is sexual with a character who doesn't consent. She holds her hand over his mouth and says "shut up and take it."
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S3E1 about 05:35-05:55 a man shaves his face and head with an electric shaver. A couple of knicks are seen.
S3E3 @ about 17 minutes, she shaves her legs. She knicks herself pretty good and it shows the blood drop.
S5E8 within the first couple of minutes, a man knicks himself while shaving his jawline. A single drop of blood in the sink is shown.
S3E3 @ about 17 minutes, she shaves her legs. She knicks herself pretty good and it shows the blood drop.
S5E8 within the first couple of minutes, a man knicks himself while shaving his jawline. A single drop of blood in the sink is shown.
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Yes but it happened many years ago and is only discussed, not shown.
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Not sure if it counts but a character in a drug induced psychosis scratches at the wall until his fingertips are bloody.
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There is one shot with an excessive amount of blood. It's the result of a fatal head wound in S6E14. Otherwise, the amount of blood and gore is pretty reasonable for the events.
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several deaths by strangulation, also used as a torture tactic
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S2E9 When someone is run over by a car. You don't really hear it yourself, but the person who ran her over later recounts that he heard it.
Another episode (and many times in flashbacks later), a man cracks the rib of someone while trying to perform CPR, but you don't really hear it.
S4E9 and again S6E12 @40:28, a man fatally snaps someone's neck. Audio and visual.
Another episode (and many times in flashbacks later), a man cracks the rib of someone while trying to perform CPR, but you don't really hear it.
S4E9 and again S6E12 @40:28, a man fatally snaps someone's neck. Audio and visual.
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Usually off screen, but the aftermath is sometimes shown (always briefly)
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Very briefly in season 1, not graphic, a man intentionally falls from a window.
S4E3 a woman jumps out of a window. A video recording of it is played twice. You don't see the impact of her fall and there's no audio.
S4E3 a woman jumps out of a window. A video recording of it is played twice. You don't see the impact of her fall and there's no audio.
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above waist not shown on screen, but a main character’s father hangs himself
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A main character has a stillborn. Very relevant in Season two, and is shown in S2E14
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There is a LOT of cheating in this show. Multiple characters and it's a big part of the story.
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yes, several mentions of kidnapping as well as several actual abductions
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Sometimes the suspense is high, but there are not really jump scares to scare the viewer.
There are probably some small startling moments for very jumpy people, but they are short and manageable.
There are probably some small startling moments for very jumpy people, but they are short and manageable.
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Several normal shower scenes. One suspenseful one: S4E7 @ 24 minutes.
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S2E11 a character farts loudly. S3E2 he farts again, to be funny.
S3E14 a character spits neatly into a bathroom sink.
S3E3 a character "spits" angrily on the ground next to someone she's arguing with. You don't actually see any fluids, and the audio sounds like she's just making a gesture rather than actually spitting.
S4E13 2-3 minutes in, a character spits into a sink a few times while brushing his teeth.
S5E3 @40:32 a character spits into a sink while brushing her teeth. It's pretty messy.
S3E14 a character spits neatly into a bathroom sink.
S3E3 a character "spits" angrily on the ground next to someone she's arguing with. You don't actually see any fluids, and the audio sounds like she's just making a gesture rather than actually spitting.
S4E13 2-3 minutes in, a character spits into a sink a few times while brushing his teeth.
S5E3 @40:32 a character spits into a sink while brushing her teeth. It's pretty messy.
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S4E1 an elderly woman is incontinent. You see the puddle on the floor at her feet.
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Emetophobe here. I'm not sure why there are "no" votes... It definitely happens.
S1E6 at around 13:30-13:35, audio and visual, easy to see coming (he runs to the bathroom). It cuts back to it again at about 14:48 with audio but there's no dialogue that whole time so honestly you can just mute from 13:30 until 13:55 and not miss anything.
S2E3 character runs to the bathroom as the verdict is being read, at about 28:36, visual and I assume audio, though I muted in time. There's dialogue over it but you can tell what's said by context.
S2E11 This one caught me by surprise because the episode literally starts with it. It's only audio, so you can just mute for the first several seconds.
S3E5 @ about 30 minutes in, audio and closeup visual, very graphic. As soon as the students discover the big thing on the laptop, it switches scenes very unexpectedly, so mute and look away for about a minute. Even when she's done actually being ill, she's sitting by the toilet for the rest of the scene so it might still be upsetting. If you can't watch that, it's still safe to unmute, because there is dialog. The scene ends completely at 32:53.
However, she v*s again in the very next scene. The beginning is fine but you can see when she feels ill, at which point you can safely mute and look away (audio and sorta visual). Scene ends at 33:50.
S3E6 @41:41-46 audio, partial visual. No dialogue so you can mute without missing anything.
S4E4 @ about 09:10 - 09:20 (after he pushes the USB device across the table), audio and visual.
S4E12 @ about 23 minutes, a dead woman lies on the ground with v* next to her, but it's not a close-up and it goes by very quickly.
S4E9 @ 31:07-31:12 audio and a little visual. For another 20 seconds after that, she is shown near a toilet.
S6:E5 @2:28 audio and visual of blood emesis. Lasts a few seconds. Same episode @34:40 audio choking/g*gging.
S1E6 at around 13:30-13:35, audio and visual, easy to see coming (he runs to the bathroom). It cuts back to it again at about 14:48 with audio but there's no dialogue that whole time so honestly you can just mute from 13:30 until 13:55 and not miss anything.
S2E3 character runs to the bathroom as the verdict is being read, at about 28:36, visual and I assume audio, though I muted in time. There's dialogue over it but you can tell what's said by context.
S2E11 This one caught me by surprise because the episode literally starts with it. It's only audio, so you can just mute for the first several seconds.
S3E5 @ about 30 minutes in, audio and closeup visual, very graphic. As soon as the students discover the big thing on the laptop, it switches scenes very unexpectedly, so mute and look away for about a minute. Even when she's done actually being ill, she's sitting by the toilet for the rest of the scene so it might still be upsetting. If you can't watch that, it's still safe to unmute, because there is dialog. The scene ends completely at 32:53.
However, she v*s again in the very next scene. The beginning is fine but you can see when she feels ill, at which point you can safely mute and look away (audio and sorta visual). Scene ends at 33:50.
S3E6 @41:41-46 audio, partial visual. No dialogue so you can mute without missing anything.
S4E4 @ about 09:10 - 09:20 (after he pushes the USB device across the table), audio and visual.
S4E12 @ about 23 minutes, a dead woman lies on the ground with v* next to her, but it's not a close-up and it goes by very quickly.
S4E9 @ 31:07-31:12 audio and a little visual. For another 20 seconds after that, she is shown near a toilet.
S6:E5 @2:28 audio and visual of blood emesis. Lasts a few seconds. Same episode @34:40 audio choking/g*gging.
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You hear a woman stabbed in the throat and her gurgling as she dies in S2E13.
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The show revolves around defense attorneys but does not send a message of them being moral or heroic, including when they collaborate with police officers.
As the series goes on they are more open in their critiques of the American criminal punishment system
As the series goes on they are more open in their critiques of the American criminal punishment system
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Yes, a main character's spouse has late stage cancer. She is shown in the hospital a few times.
S5E3 a minor character has stage 4 recurring breast cancer.
S5E3 a minor character has stage 4 recurring breast cancer.
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yes, a postpartum mother is held in a psychiatric ward and not allowed to see her child
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S6E5 @7:25, a man is injected in a hospital.
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Multiple throughout the series. They usually are not graphic (but S2E14 does show the baby that has died). This scene is very intense due to the raw emotion and the parents reacting to and coping with the loss. Lots of silence and screaming in addition to seeing the baby
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Not abuse, but something that might be upsetting to my fellow autistics: the lawyer is trying to find excuses for her client murdering someone, and one of the ideas she says (to herself) is Oppositional Defiance Disorder. (That's part of the autism spectrum and does NOT make you a murderer.)
I'm not finished with the show, will update if there's anything else.
I'm not finished with the show, will update if there's anything else.
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Most notably, a man who spent a year in solitary confinement.
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S2E5 in the first two minutes there's an awful high pitched sound
S3E14 @ about 14:30-14:50 there's some very loud smoochy sounds when two characters are being intimate. There's no dialogue so it's fine to mute for that scene.
S3E14 @ about 14:30-14:50 there's some very loud smoochy sounds when two characters are being intimate. There's no dialogue so it's fine to mute for that scene.
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S1E4 a man intentionally falls out of a window to his death.
S2, I forget which episode, a man hangs himself. It's not shown on screen, but his body is briefly shown.
S2E13 a woman stabs herself in the neck and dies a slow painful death in front of her child. Very graphic, shown repeatedly.
S2E15 @ 36:35-36:44 a man's body is shown in a bloody bathtub, the aftermath of his suicide.
S3E14 starts with a character almost stepping in front of a bus.
There are also instances of characters trying to goad other characters into killing themselves. And multiple instances of characters attempting suicide (one overdoses on pills, another revs the car engine in a closed garage, etc).
S6E14 @~40:30, the results of a fatal head wound are shown, with a gun in the deceased person's hand. Whether it was actually suicide or staged to look like it, it may still be triggering if you've experienced anything related to this.
S2, I forget which episode, a man hangs himself. It's not shown on screen, but his body is briefly shown.
S2E13 a woman stabs herself in the neck and dies a slow painful death in front of her child. Very graphic, shown repeatedly.
S2E15 @ 36:35-36:44 a man's body is shown in a bloody bathtub, the aftermath of his suicide.
S3E14 starts with a character almost stepping in front of a bus.
There are also instances of characters trying to goad other characters into killing themselves. And multiple instances of characters attempting suicide (one overdoses on pills, another revs the car engine in a closed garage, etc).
S6E14 @~40:30, the results of a fatal head wound are shown, with a gun in the deceased person's hand. Whether it was actually suicide or staged to look like it, it may still be triggering if you've experienced anything related to this.
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Many characters are traumatized by events such as witnessing a murder and miscarriage.
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S4E8 @ 34 ish, a woman is trapped in an elevator while having a miscarriage
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A character says if she gets convicted, she'll kill herself.
In another episode, a character offhandedly says something along the lines of "don't be surprised if I kill myself when I leave here" to a doctor, who is then required to report it and have him put in a psych ward.
S3E8, a character makes vague threats in a manipulative way ("I'm scared what I'll do if I got to be alone tonight.")
In another episode, a character offhandedly says something along the lines of "don't be surprised if I kill myself when I leave here" to a doctor, who is then required to report it and have him put in a psych ward.
S3E8, a character makes vague threats in a manipulative way ("I'm scared what I'll do if I got to be alone tonight.")
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There's a ton of handheld camera where there's some motion, but it's not *shakey* and it's not used in a horror movie sort of way. There's also a lot of motion effect like rapidly swiveling from one thing to another, which might induce dizziness or motion sickness in some viewers.
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S1E6 05:02-05:05, there is severe flickering from a CCTV monitor playing a scene with fluorescent lighting. It's brief but really bad, so if you have sensitivity of any kind with this, you definitely want to protect your eyes. Nothing vital is shown during these seconds, so you can just close your eyes and listen to the audio.
S1E14 about 04:48-04:50, flashing images get faster until it's basically a flicker. Again, you miss nothing vital if you don't watch those seconds.
S2E5 flashing lights from cop cars, starts about 34:35.
S3E8 @ about 33 minutes, repeated camera flashes, lasts less than a minute
S1E14 about 04:48-04:50, flashing images get faster until it's basically a flicker. Again, you miss nothing vital if you don't watch those seconds.
S2E5 flashing lights from cop cars, starts about 34:35.
S3E8 @ about 33 minutes, repeated camera flashes, lasts less than a minute
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It begins in S2E10 and lasts for a couple of episodes.
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A main character’s stillbirth is a recurring theme of season 2, and it is shown in S2E14.
A graphic scene of someone trying to save the baby an ill pregnant woman happens in the episode “Live, live, live”
*SPOILER* both the mother and baby survive, but the scenes could be disturbing and potentially triggering
A graphic scene of someone trying to save the baby an ill pregnant woman happens in the episode “Live, live, live”
*SPOILER* both the mother and baby survive, but the scenes could be disturbing and potentially triggering
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S2E14, extremely graphic and upsetting. There's also an emotional scene related to it in S2E13 that could be difficult to watch if you've lost a baby.
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yes, a pregnant woman’s murder is a major part of the plot of season 1, as well as her murder (strangling, not gory) and body being seen onscreen
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yes, but not for being LGBT. however, there is an implied death or persecution of a gay character deported to pakistan
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A white woman uses racial slurs when talking about her Black nephew and Asian niece who were adopted.
In another episode, someone says relatively mild transphobic things about a trans woman.
In S5E7, a man uses the f slur in a derogatory way as he passes by a gay couple who are kissing.
In another episode, someone says relatively mild transphobic things about a trans woman.
In S5E7, a man uses the f slur in a derogatory way as he passes by a gay couple who are kissing.
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LOTS of problematic talk about mental illness, especially in season 4.
There's also some talk in that same season about a character not having value because he wasn't in school or working, which is a common trigger for disabled folks living in a capitalist society.
There's also some talk in that same season about a character not having value because he wasn't in school or working, which is a common trigger for disabled folks living in a capitalist society.
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In season 1, A man makes a snarky comment about another man's theoretical future working in a low paying office setting and hitting on the "chubby" assistant.
In season 2, a high school clique is bullying another girl and calling her a fat piggy.
S5E2 a woman calls a group of fellow law students who are getting food provided to them "little piggies grazing," and the one in the foreground is a plus sized woman (typical fatphobic trope).
In season 2, a high school clique is bullying another girl and calling her a fat piggy.
S5E2 a woman calls a group of fellow law students who are getting food provided to them "little piggies grazing," and the one in the foreground is a plus sized woman (typical fatphobic trope).
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Transphobic talk in one episode. Also the f slur at the end of S5E7.
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No, but there's a transgender character in one episode and there's a little bit of transphobic talk about her, though she isn't actually misgendered.
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adoptive siblings have a sexual relationship, characters are raped by their uncle and father, biological brother and sister have a child together as well as a continued sexual relationship as a product of neglect. never shown on screen
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There is some turbulence during takeoff in one of those little "pond hopper" type planes (S6E9 @ 39ish) but it doesn't crash.
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A few car crashes
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Mild but yes
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Multiple car crashes, and they are typically planned
One results in a hospitalization, and another hurts a pregnant woman and kills her baby
One results in a hospitalization, and another hurts a pregnant woman and kills her baby
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No, but a character is made to look like she had drowned in the first season to cover up her real cause of death. You see her floating in the water a few times.
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In particular, S6E15 opens with the sound of gunshots and then the scene of what appears to be a mass shooting.
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