TURN: Washington's Spies
TV Show • 2014 • War
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The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
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Sickboy
Attempted rapes in s2 e8, s3 e6 and e7. All are unsuccessful, but the one in 3x7 does result in the would-be victim’s death.
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Does a pet die?
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A horse
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Are rabbits harmed?
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I’m not sure if it’s a rabbit, but there’s a scene in season 1 of Caleb skinning an animal to eat. However, the animal is dead, and I don’t believe it’s clear if it’s a rabbit or similar animal.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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A woman stabs a man in self defense, as he was trying to rape her. The actual action and injury are not seen on screen, it’s more implied.
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Sickboy
There is a child who is enslaved, but we never see him abused outright in any way.
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Sickboy
This is hard to answer, especially without spoilers, but I would say yes, just maybe not in the traditional sense? A woman pretends to love a man in order to report enemy plans back to her side, and he gets rough with her. Abe grabs Mary roughly by the wrists several times throughout the series, but doesn’t harm her beyond that. A man grabs his father by the shoulders and pushes him into a wall.
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Is someone stalked?
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Sickboy
Characters are followed to be spied on, for purposes relating to the war, mostly.
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Barn is burned down with animals
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Does a horse die?
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The beginning of episode they burn down the barn and kill all the animals 😭
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Assault
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ErikCredle
In season 3, a female POW is assaulted, fights back, and dies. The scene is very short but uncomfortable. This only happens once in the show
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Sickboy
A character is shown with an eye injury that looks like a severe bruising. However, the violence that led to this injury is not shown, and the man recovers fine. In s3 e3, a man is cut near the eye during a fight. A blade is slashed across his eyelid in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot. And afterwards, his eye is bloody, and it just looks closed. He wears a eyepatch for a while afterwards, turn his eye eventually heals.
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Is someone tortured?
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Sickboy
Multiple torture scenes in the show, however, the only very brutal one is in s4 e2. A very likable character is tied to a chair, cut with a sword, and salt is rubbed in the wounds. He is then branded with a scalding hot sword. In episode 1, a man is taken and has his head held underwater repeatedly while being interrogated. A bit later in season 1, a man is held captive and beaten, although this doesn’t seem to faze him much. In season 2, a man is stripped naked (not seen except for quick rear nudity) and thrown in an outdoor cell. It is winter, and the torturers hope the extreme conditions will make him confess. He ends up with frost bite on his toes. A different man is thrown in prison and is repeatedly beaten by other prisoners, starved, threatened with sexual assault (if this ever actually happens it’s off screen) and threatened with death. In the last season, a man is tied to a chair and its implied tools are used to hurt him (though I don’t believe this is ever shown), however, the man maintains good spirits throughout.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Sickboy
In season 2 episode 8, a man is forced to cut off three toes due to frost bite.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Sickboy
Scenes where characters get hit in the mouth, but I don’t believe anything specifically with teeth is shown in these scenes. In season 2, Washington has a graphic vision where his teeth fall out, however, this is just a vision and is not real.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sickboy
Not that I can think of - there might be something quick in a war scene. I know a dead body is burned at the end of season 1, but I don’t think anyone alive is. In s4 e2, someone is branded with a scalding sword. They survive, and no (direct) fire.
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Is there a hanging?
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S3 E10 is centered around hangings for spies, there's 1 in season 1, 2 in season 2, and I don't think any happen in season 4. hangings are mentioned often
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Is there amputation?
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ErikCredle
Not really, but S2 E4 General Benedict Arnold is seen always with getting repairs on his left leg from multiple battle injuries
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Sickboy
Scenes of hanging. A scene in s1 e1 where I man has his head held underwater repeatedly as a form of torture. In season 2 episode 10, a man wraps a rope around another man’s neck, then keeps him in a cellar. The man struggles to breathe through all of this.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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macaronncheese
There is a "what could happen scene" in which a character has a seizure. The character does not actually have a seizure in the plot, only this sequence.
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Does a head get squashed?
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No, but there is a very quick yet graphic scene where a man scalps another in season 2. Blink and you’ll miss it, but it’s there. I will describe the scene below the spoiler line in case anyone wants to skip it.
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SPOILER: When Simcoe first meets up with the Queen’s Rangers in the woods upon first being made their leader, one Ranger makes it clear he has an issue with Simcoe. Simcoe grabs his arm, twists it, then scalps the man.
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SPOILER: When Simcoe first meets up with the Queen’s Rangers in the woods upon first being made their leader, one Ranger makes it clear he has an issue with Simcoe. Simcoe grabs his arm, twists it, then scalps the man.
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Is there excessive gore?
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idksomeusername
Very much so. Pretty unavoidable.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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macaronncheese
A kid does not die on screen, but their death is mentioned.
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Family
Does someone cheat?
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Sickboy
A major plot line in the show revolves around a man repeatedly cheating on his wife with another woman.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Sickboy
Many adults are taken captive throughout. Abe at least once a season, I’d say.
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Is there a shower scene?
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ErikCredle
There are multiple bathtub scenes
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Sickboy
In s3 e8, a man is threatened at gunpoint and wets himself.
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Does someone spit?
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Sickboy
Abe spits on a guy’s shoe after the guy threatens him. Caleb spits in Simcoe’s face in s4 e2.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There are medical scenes, like bullet extractions, but nothing in a hospital, no.
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Mental Health
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Sickboy
I don’t believe so, not that I can think of. Some characters willingly go to death, but not because they want to die, usually because they’re defending their honor, or unwilling to give a false confession. A character is mentioned to have died by suicide, but it is heavily implied and later confirmed that this character was murdered.
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Sickboy
Not in the traditional sense. There are a few self-inflicted injuries, but for reasons outside of poor mental health. For example, in episode 1, a man cuts his forehead, because he needs to make it seem like he was kidnapped by dangerous people.
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Pregnancy
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Yes, in season 4, one of the women does give birth
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Sickboy
No, but it might be important to mention that there are black people held as slaves and they often aren’t treated well, but I don’t believe there are any uses of this word.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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macaronncheese
There is only one side character confirmed as LGBT+ and he does not die.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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ErikCredle
"Molly/pair of mollies" is an 18th-century slur for a gay man/gay men used a few times in season 1 and then once again in season 3.
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Sickboy
In s3 e3, a man proposes to a woman and mentions they are cousins. No incestuous actions are shown on screen, and this line is most likely played for laughs. In s3 e8 or 9, a man is accused of sleeping with him sister. Again, nothing is shown, and they don’t go into detail beyond that.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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macaronncheese
The ending is bittersweet. It is revealed that the main character's son has died.
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Does someone drown?
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macaronncheese
There are scenes where a dead body is cast into a body of water.
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