The Mill
TV Show • 2013 • Drama
ReportPowerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
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Is there pedophilia?
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The foreman is known to be handsy and sexually harass his workers, all of whom are children or teenagers. He tries to assault Miriam in the bathroom at the beginning of episode one, but it interrupted. Later in the episode, he threatens to assault Esther and she defends herself and then they are interrupted.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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The show does not sexualize the girls, but Mr. Crout, the foreman, obviously gawks and gropes the girls.
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Abuse
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moonbasket
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The majority of the main characters are children being forced to work in a cotton mill for 12 hour days with little food or rest and in unsafe conditions. There is corporal punishment, including hair cutting as punishment and solitary confinement.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Esther is alone in Liverpool and sells sex for money. She is a virgin and only 17. The man is not violent and is polite, but it feels brutal as a viewer of the scene.
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Assault
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Miriam is assaulted by Mr. Crout in the first 10 minutes or so the episode. He gropes her and gets his hands up her skirt while she struggles, but cannot do more before they are interrupted by and accident on the floor.
Later, he tries to assault Esther and she hits him with a large metal clapper and runs away. At the end of the episode, he is fired.
Later, he tries to assault Esther and she hits him with a large metal clapper and runs away. At the end of the episode, he is fired.
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Bodily Harm
Is there amputation?
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Tommy's hand is amputated after it is crushed in the mill machinery. It is not particularly graphic and done off screen.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Lucy is forced to cut Esther's hair off with large shears.
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Does a kid die?
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Lucy's sister is abandoned on the roadside at the beginning of the episode. The last shots of the episode are of her dead from exposure in the middle of nowhere.
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