Orphan Black

TV Show • 2013 • Drama  

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A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
This tv show contains 58 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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mastyn
Helena mentiones that when she was a kid, they made her kill a puppy (without details, conversation wasn't continued)
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Zora
(Season 1 spoiler) Season 1 shows how Beth, Cosima and Allison are being monitored by people close to them. It's not technically stalking but still a break of trust and privacy.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Zora
Season 3: Alison is being gaslighted by her mother in particular
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Is a child abused?
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alattelibrarian
There are mentions of Helena's childhood, and maybe a couple flashback scenes, where she was abused.
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Addiction
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Zora
Allison often abuses alcohol and pills
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Is there addiction?
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Zora
Allison is addicted to alcohol and pills
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Zora
Allison often abuses alcohol
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Anonymous
A pig is shown bleeding and clearly implied to die in season 5 and theres probably a bunch more animals implied to die
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Are animals abused?
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ZS55
The glitch scene where Rachel sees the swan being captured before being killed is troubling because it fights back
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Talos7
season 5 ep 1: A large wolf is found dead and mutilated in the forest
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Does a cat die?
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ZS55
In season 3, Scott's cat is threatened, but you can tell that the cat is comfortable with actor Ari Millen
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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amayacormier
S4
 E1
around 35 min there's a maggot shown
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
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acomfywoolhat
In Season 3 Episode 2, the episode contains a woman going on a date with one of the Project CASTOR clones. While they are having sex, a secone clone comes out from the shadows and also begins touching her. Later, she reports this to the police & sarcastically says that because she consented to the first clone, it wasn't rape.
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Bodily Harm
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UnaPerraSorprendente
The character Helena is seeing numerous times cutting her back, and she has many scars. There are more scenes than Helena's
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Zora
S1E10: Someone is being strangulated to death (look out for the scene with the garbage disposal); Sarah is strangulated at 34:45 (not fatal)
S2E4: someone is suffocated with a pillow (not fatal), then another person is choked
S2E9: Not technically suffering to breathe but Cosima wears nose tubes
S3E2: Helena is being waterboarded
S3E9: Someone is strangulated at 13:35
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Is there cannibalism?
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acomfywoolhat
In Season 3 Episode 2, a man takes a torch to his arm & the flesh is shown melting. This happens at the very end of the episode.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Zora
Vics finger gets cut off in season 1 (not shown tho)
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Zora
S1E1 in the opening scene someone commits suicide by getting run over by a train. It's not explicitly shown how it happens, but part of the corpse is shown for a brief moment.
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone break a bone?
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S2E8: At the end of the episode someone has a seizure after coughing up blood
S3E2: Seth has a seizure in the hallway
S3E8: (Spoiler) Rachel has a seizure after falling out of the wheelchair
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S2E7: Kira pulls her own tooth out
S3E9: Someone is beaten up and spits out some teeth at 14:20
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S1E5: Vic gets his finger cut off (not graphic)
S1E6: Vic gets his hand stapled
S2E1: Someone's hands are pinned down on the table with knives at 35:50
S3E3: Someone gets hurt with a hammer at 35:48
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Is someone tortured?
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Zora
S1E9: Helena is locked up in a cage
S2E5: Gracie gets locked up and her lips sewn together
S2E9: Helena tortures someone
S3E2: Helena is being waterboarded
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Diabird
*SPOILER* Rachel gets stabbed in the eye in S2e10, and gets a robot eye. The most of eye mutilation is in S5e8 where she tears it off.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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cassandrasaurus
A little girl (minor character) dies in the last season. It’s pretty sad, you see her mom weeping over her body. Not graphic, she dies of an internal illness.
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Death
Does someone die?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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yazoocraft
In 4x02, Kira's monkey plush is burned in a housefire
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Zora
S2E9: Kira gets kidnapped at the end of the episode (spoiler) but she ends up fine
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Does someone cheat?
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Diabird
At the end of S1, Alison sleeps with her neighbor's husband (who is suspected of cheating with a few other people in the neighborhood).
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Zora
emetophobia triggers:
S1E1: Sarah forces herself to eat soap in the police station and v*s, skip from 22:08 to 22:22; at 40:11 someone coughs up blood into a tissue but its only brief
S1E2: 1:59 and 4:18 Sarah gags but does not V*
S1E5: While brushing her teeth Sarah spits out something
S1E8: Olivier's mouth foams up after getting an injection in the hospital
S1E10: (Slight spoiler) At 9:45 and 25:35 Cosima coughs up blood
S2E3: someone gags up blood at 20:00
E4: Allison v*s after waking up at 6:12, you can't see but its audible, skip to 6:36
E8: Cosima coughts up blood at 39:25
E9: opening scene: Donnie says he might throw up but he doesnt
S3E6: Sarah v*s after waking up at 2:36, again at 11:21
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Does someone spit?
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Zora
S1E10: Helena spits at a corpse
S2E4: Sarah spits at Daniel
S3E4: at 6:16
S3E6: at 36:16
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Is there audio gore?
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Zora
S3E3: Cosima and Scott disect a body, there's some audio gore there
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Zora
S1E7: Someone is being tranquilised at 30:07
S1E8: Someone is killed by getting a lethal injection at 37:00
S2E1: Cosima gets blood taken twice at 9:02
S2E5: Cosima gets an injection at the end of the episode
S2E6: Cosima gets blood taken, you can see it coming
S2E8: Someone gives themselves a shot of testosterone at 22:35
S2E9: Hospital scene, several syringes; someone being tranquilizes suddenly at 38:36
S3E2: At 14:24
S3E4: at 6:24
S3E5: at 12:02
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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S1E5: Sarah has a "dream" that she is being treated medically in her bedroom
S1E8: Olivier is shown a few times in the hospital
S1E9: Opening scene - Emergency surgery of a child

S2E1: Helena goes to the emergency room
S2E2: Opening scene
S2E4 + E8: Helena gets gyn treatment non-consentually
S2E7: Cosima gets a gyn treatment
S2E9: Gracie has a gyn-treatment (non-consentually)
S2E10: (Spoiler) Sarah is prepared for surgery but it doesnt happen

Throughout season 3 there are several hospital scenes with Rachel
S3E4: Towards the end of the episode, gory
S3E6: Sarah is sick at the hospital
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cassandrasaurus
The LEDA clones have a genetic degenerative disease that presents similarly to lung cancer.

Also, in S5 a minor recurring character, a little girl, has a Wilm’s tumor.
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Mental Health
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Zora
Helena mainly selfharms which is shown in S1e3, e4, e6 and e9; she also has deep self harm wounds on her back.

S2E2: Tomas flaggelates himself
S3E2: Someone burns their skin at the end of the episode
S3E5: Helena cuts herself (opening scene)
S3E9: Razor blade shown at 31:10, 32:25 and 34:34
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popo
Helena is a clone who presents with flat affect, odd speech and later, hallucinations. She was trained to kill as a young child, so her inclination to violence either towards herself or to others are possibly a result of abuse. Her behavior is strange and markedly different to other clones - *spoiler* she is initially a villainous presence - but it is far from a dehumanizing portrayal of a person with psychosis.
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cassandrasaurus
There are no canonically autistic characters in the series. However, autistic folks should be aware that eugenics is a big theme.
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Diabird
*SPOILER* Particularly Alison, a very nervous character, who for example freaks out after killing someone.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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pennybaker
The first episode has a graphic suicide scene with a train within the first minutes, before the title card
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Zora
S1 E1 in the opening scene there is a bit of shaky cam as it follows Sarah for a few moments.
Also in some scenes with Helena the camera goes in and out of focus to show her mental state.
S3E4: There's a bit of shakey cam as Helena walks around in the camp
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Anonymous
During a particular scene in Season 4 a women being experimented on gives birth to a still born. The scene is semi graphic and triggering for anyone who may have miscarried or lost a child.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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cassandrasaurus
Childbirth is a central plot point in the last two episodes of the series in S5. Especially in the series finale. A main character gives birth to twins under very stressful circumstances.
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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popo
A character with psychotic traits is deprived of her autonomy by regularly being abducted and subject to emotional abuse, torture and medical abuse.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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pennybaker
A trans male character is called "she" by one character and promptly corrected by another.
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minusv
An LGBT person is shown, presumably dying, and only several episodes later it is revealed that they survived.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Diabird
In S2 ep1, Donny makes a comment saying "I guess she's... plus size" to talk about a big girl.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Zora
S3E7: Alisons mom uses the m-word
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Sex
Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Diabird
*SPOLIER* In S3, a girl is impregnated with embryos that come from her father's sperm (and another woman's ovary). So not really a relationship but technically she's still pregnant with her father's baby.
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pennybaker
Explicit sex scene in first episode, among others
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Zora
S2E3 at the end of the episode
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Does a plane crash?
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Diabird
*SPOILER* A little girl gets hit by a car at the end of S1, but she ends up okay.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Zora
Blood is seen quite often in the show; here are some more graphic scenes:

Season 1:
E1: Beth's body is shown after her suicide under the train; later her body is shown twice in the morgue; someone is shot and killed at 41:00, there's a lot of blood in the car
E2: Dead body shown in the opening and first scene, body buried
E3: Art is shot in the ear during a search; Helena is later stabbed in the torso (not fatal); at the end of the episode she treats her wounds (very graphic)
E4: Opening scene: Helena treats her wounds, very graphic
E5: Opening scene: Helena's wounds are being treated; later Vic's finger is cut off (not shown tho)
E6: Vic gets beat up and stapled
E7: Olivier's tail is cut off by Helena
E10: Someone is stabbed at 28:40, it leaves a lot of blood; person shown dying again at 32:59
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Season 2:
E1: Helena's covered in blood at the hospital
E2: someone is pinned to the table with knives at 35:50
E3: autopsy scene (you can see it coming)
E4: aftermath of a car crash; later someone is slaughtered in Rachel's apartment
E7: (Spoiler) Donnie shoots someone accidentally, it's very bloody
E9: (spoiler) Donnie and Allison are handling a body in the opening scene; later Helena tortures someone at the farm
E10: (spoiler) Rachel gets shot in the eye -

Season 3:
E1: someone has eye surgery (hospital scene at the beginning);
E3: Opening scene: Corpse handled; Cosima and Scott disect a corpse from 18:50 to 20:48.
E4: Mark is wounded and bleeds a lot; they treat his wounds, very bloody; (spoiler) Gracie miscarries; at the end of the episode there's someone with their brain exposed
E5: Baby skeleton shown; someone gets pierced in the head at 36:05
E6: someone stabbed at 37:40, a lot of blood; several corpses shown at 39:05
E9: Terry gets beat up badly in his flat; later Helena is covered in blood (not hers though); corpse at 36:39
E10: gory fight between Helena and Rudy; scene between Dr Nealon and Delphine is gory; later Ferdinand beats someone up
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Diabird
In S2 ep1 as well.
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