Threshold

TV Show • 2005 • Drama  

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Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
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Does the dog die?
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Are animals abused?
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No, but there are lab rats in sub par enclosures
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
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Does a pet die?
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Episode: the Order. A cat is mutated, twisted up, shown on screen. It is killed off screen. Scene is after there's a noise in the bathroom.
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But it appears to be threatened. A female character in a nightgown is pinned by a man. A different female character is shoved into her own home and restrained
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a child abused?
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Someone's eyes are gouged out on screen
In episode the Outbreak, someone's eyes melt into blood on screen
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Every episode, lots of gore. Final episode involves bodies in a wood chipper
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is someone tortured?
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Suicide by hanging in the pilot
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone self harm?
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A man attacks his girlfriend in her apartment, he shoves her and throws a lamp across the room, then grabs her arms
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Does a kid die?
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Is there body horror?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there jump scares?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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There are some scenes in a ladies dancing club
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Visible on screen, not always someone breaking someone else's fingers. People's bodies reject the alien changes and mutate, twisted fingers are visible on screen
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Is there blood/gore?
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Does a head get squashed?
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A skeleton has its teeth pulled. A face explodes outwards
In episode Revelations there's plants growing human teeth
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Are there spiders?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there audio gore?
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Squelching noises during the visual gore scenes
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Some people get severe burn injures, shown on screen with the injuries but not on fire. They recover
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Are there abusive parents?
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Not fully nude, characters in undergarments
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Is there a hanging?
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In episode 1 and 2, Trees of Glass, there a man who killed himself by hanging. Visible on screen, mentioned later in episode as well
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there shakey cam?
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There's a cell phone and video camera footage that is reviewed on screen, shaky images
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Often, whenever the alien artifact appears or someone is under its influence. Sometimes durung dreamscape sequences or flashbacks. The screen flashes rapidly between the image and it's negative. This would likely cause a seizure in photosensitive viewers.
In episode The Outbreak, right before the alien signal is played until the character is talking to another person in the dreamscape
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Is there defecation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Blood is drawn, needles are seen being put in arms for this. The people don't always consent to this and are sometimes restrained
In episode Revelations a character is shown with track marks in his arms and is shown using a needle to draw blood, threatens to use the needle on a character
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there bugs?
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Roaches, visible on screen. On the boat and then later in a lab. Normal and mutated insects
In episodes Revelations a close up of a mutated fly, several bugs are seen flying around close to the weird plants
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Is there amputation?
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Someone's head gets ripped off,
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Is someone buried alive?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there copaganda?
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The main characters impersonate various police and government forces and violate many civil rights in order to deal with the extraterrestrial threat. There are no consequences for them.
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Is someone eaten?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there misophonia?
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The alien signal sounds like knives being sharpened
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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In episode The Burning. A person who is believed to be mentally ill has killed his family, there is a recording wherin a police officer tells the child that he's ill and that's why he killed his family
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There's some creepy flirting from an older male character to a younger female character. She shoots him down and he stops
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In the Burning, the child is told that something else was going on and that he is responsible for the death of his family, that he is lying to the police about what happened. He is made to believe that he is mentally ill
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Does someone drown?
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No, but it is discussed and assumed (falsely) that the people from the boat drowned
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Is there blackface?
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A character is nearly strangled to death on screen. An audio recording is repeated during the episode.
Strangulation is on screen and a common murder method
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Many bones are broken. All on screen and graphically, throughout the series. Necks are twisted
In episode Revelations a character has his shoulder dislocated and he resets it, on screen, crunching sounds
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No LGBT noted or baited
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Does someone miscarry?
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Episode Alienville No but someone is shot with a taser round in the ankle
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Is someone drugged?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Episode The Burning
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People get shot a lot. Most of them just walk it off and are fine
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Is the r-slur used?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Is there hate speech?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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The team has trauma and some reactions to it, mostly nightmares
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A freshly born baby is taken from its alien mom
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Does a major character die?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there BDSM?
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Is there childbirth?
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Final episode Alienville, a child is born on screen
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Is someone held under water?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there fat suits?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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No but electric shocks are used, tasers, electric fences, stun guns against the aliens. Someone falls on the third rail on the subway and gets zapped
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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No, but in episode the Progeny, someone pretends a corpse is Jewish as a ruse to get custody of the body
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But but someone says they wet themselves. They didn't but they were saying it as a statement of how excited they were
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Does a car crash?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone choked?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Some characters exhibit anxiety after nightmares in the dreamscape
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Is someone stalked?
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Some black people die, but not first and a lot of people die
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Are there razors?
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Are there dislocations?
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No, but there is some talk of cancer, a minor character is an oncologist
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Episode the Pulse, On screen in a hospital after the nightclub scene and in the lab when Dr. Caffrey talks to the DJ
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Are there snakes?
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Does a baby cry?
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After being born, the baby cries. The sound is amplified and played over the speakers
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Is there aphobia?
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In episode Pulse, a man is referred to as an alcoholic
That same character is shown to have alcohol issues throughout the series from that point
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Does someone overdose?
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Does someone die?
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Are there bedbugs?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Are there abortions?
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In episode the Progeny, there is discussion of terminating a mutated human's pregnancy
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Does a plane crash?
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A plane is shot down, off screen
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Are there heart attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone possessed?
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In a way, yes. People who are exposed to the alien artifact change into something else. It looks like possession
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes a baby in the final episode, Alienville. There's ultrasound scan and whatnot brought up during the series
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Does someone spit?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Aliens are technically kidnapped and held in the threshold facility
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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In episode the Pulse, someone is thrown from a window and lands on a car, but survives
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Are there clowns?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Reference to drug use in episode The Pulse
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Is religion discussed?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Episode 1 and 2, Trees of Glass. Not nuclear, but there is an explosion
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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No, but a post shower scene with a character having left a shower and has a towel wrapped around her. Non-sexualized
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Are there sharks?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there tsunamis?
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Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Are there mannequins?
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Is there incarceration?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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No but a mentioned character is believed to be homeless
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Is there live gunfire?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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In the episode called Pulse, A nightclub in miami is attacked by the alien signal, people are shown bleeding and in fear, later in an overcrowded hospital. May be triggering
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Are there entrances from audience?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Is someone restrained?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Is there audience participation?
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Is there addiction?
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In episode the Pulse, drug addiction and use is referenced
In episode the Progeny, a character is confronted about a gambling addiction
That character has issues with alcohol and cocain as well as the gambling issues
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is there menstruation?
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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The partner of a main character works in a hospital, there are scenes related to this
Also some episodes involve hospital scenes
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Is there flying onstage?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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