Defending Jacob
TV Show • 2020 • Drama
ReportA family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate in this dramatic legal thriller.
This tv show contains 14 potentially triggering events.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Major plotline
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Is a minor sexualized?
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zoie
yes, a middle aged man sexualizes a teen boy and it isn’t shown, but it’s mentioned that he touched him for money. also, a different teen boy blackmails a teen girl into sexual things
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
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infjkiki44
Someone uses a bong. There are also prescription pills shown.
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Is there addiction?
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zoie
jacob watching the cut up room could be considered an addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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505in303
2nd to last episode, a main character gets hammered on a bottle of hard liquor
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About ~24 minutes into episode 4, a bloody, dead squirrel is shown on the computer monitor.
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infjkiki44
A teen girl sends a topless photo to a teen boy who then says that he'll send it to the whole school if she doesn't give him a blowjob.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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505in303
It’s discussed as a “porn” website. Not because of sexual material, but as a tool for cutters to, allegedly, “scratch the itch” or interest in cutting themselves or others without the actual act.
(Also, the victim’s mother is seen cutting her hand on glass which clear clearly triggers her (and the defendant’s mother secretly peering through the window )
(Also, the victim’s mother is seen cutting her hand on glass which clear clearly triggers her (and the defendant’s mother secretly peering through the window )
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Is there a hanging?
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::Spoilers::
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MULTIPLE triggering suicide allegations with simulations. One by strangulation in episode 8 (I think) everyone believes that a character wrote a suicide note and hung himself. The character is seen writing that note. It is later discovered (believed to be) a murder, not a suicide.
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MULTIPLE triggering suicide allegations with simulations. One by strangulation in episode 8 (I think) everyone believes that a character wrote a suicide note and hung himself. The character is seen writing that note. It is later discovered (believed to be) a murder, not a suicide.
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infjkiki44
A girl is drugged and taken back to someone's apartment. She is later found by the police.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Huge trigger warning - various hospital scenes, multiple including tests and machines used on Jacob
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Mental Health
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zoie
a character doesn’t self harm, but there is a website called the cut up room which is discussed quite a bit in the show. there are images of self harm shown on the website, but it’s easy to skip.
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::Spoilers::
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MULTIPLE triggering suicide allegations with simulations. One by strangulation in episode 8 (I think) and another arguable attempt in the last episode.
:::Ending Spoiler:::
Just because it could be particularly triggering for someone, the mother allegedly runs her car in to a concrete wall attempting to kill them both. She is not indicted for the allegation and it assumed, by the grand jury, to be an accident. Both mother and son are seriously injured.
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MULTIPLE triggering suicide allegations with simulations. One by strangulation in episode 8 (I think) and another arguable attempt in the last episode.
:::Ending Spoiler:::
Just because it could be particularly triggering for someone, the mother allegedly runs her car in to a concrete wall attempting to kill them both. She is not indicted for the allegation and it assumed, by the grand jury, to be an accident. Both mother and son are seriously injured.
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Sex
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infjkiki44
There is a sex scene between a married couple.
A teen girl is blackmailed for a blowjob after sending a topless picture to a teen boy.
A teen girl is blackmailed for a blowjob after sending a topless picture to a teen boy.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Does it have a sad ending?
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zoie
the ending is ambiguous and not necessarily sad or happy
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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infjkiki44
There is a car crash in the last episode.
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Violence
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zoie
ep 1-3: there are flashbacks to a knife constantly, but nothing happens with it. ep 1-8?: a boy is shown with blood covering his chest and up to his neck, but we can’t see the stab wounds graphically. ep 5: there is also a brief glimpse of a website with s*lf harm wounds but it’s on a phone and hard to see clearly. ep 8: someone cuts their hand on a piece of glass and another person watches them through the window. ep 4: bloody pictures of a dead squirrel.
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