Leverage
TV Show • 2008 • Drama
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A five-person team comprised of a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
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Needs More Answers
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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E3
A child is in the hospital comes in with a broken arm. One of the main cast confronts the father and talks to the child about talking to anchorites and an officer is sent to talk to the child (and presumably help the child) at the end of the episode).
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Parker’s introductory flashback scene contains the abuse of a female caregiver by a male caregiver. He slaps her face once right at the start of the flashback. there is no visual but there is a sound effect and she is crying after.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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They're con artists. They gaslight for a living and have a couple episodes where they convince marks that they are insane, fatally ill, or getting abducted by aliens
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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E18
Arguably. A character works with his abusive father. Forgiveness isn't given, but there are implications.
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Are there abusive parents?
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both nate and parker’s backstories have heavy themes of child abuse. nate’s childhood is relatively unexplored until season three, but there are scenes of his father berating him and neglecting him. nate’s abuse is mostly implied, but made fairly clear. parker’s abuse is much more explicit. her first scene contains a flashback to some abuse at the hands of her foster parents (non graphic, verbal), and parker continually displays signs of childhood abuse and makes comments that may be uncomfortable for those sensitive to the topic. parker notably does not have any good parental figures, and those who had a hand in raising her are portrayed as severely unfit. the show runners did a lot of spectacular work with implying significant long term abuse while showing very little visually, and instead showing us through off hand comments and behaviours after the fact, so a warning to anyone who may need it. very little is explicit, but you still learn a lot.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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S1
E1
Nate struggles with his alcoholism throughout the whole series.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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A major character struggles with alcohol addiction
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In season 1 episode 4 anxiety medication is replaced by caffeine with dextroamfetamin
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Animal
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Season 1’s The Two Horse Job does have a description of a fire in a horse stable and a character describing that the horses screamed. That is why he wants the team to take the instigator down.
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Does a horse die?
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In season 1 Ep 3, “the two horse job”
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Are there snakes?
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E8
a character grabs a snake hidden in some leaves on a tree, and promptly takes a bite out of it. very little is visually shown, but there are sound effects.
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Assault
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S1
E2
Sophie makes a joke to Perry that he should watch his hands when she helps him to his wheelchair. He does not touch her inappropriately, and it is framed as a joke.
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Is someone drugged?
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E12
There's a few episode of elliot getting drugged, though he tends to shake it off, an episode wherein appears he's been drugged and kills a guy in that state (it's a con, everyone is fine)
Most significantly is S5 E12 where they spend the whole con repeatedly drugging a guy to mess with his head, it's a very trigger possible episode
Most significantly is S5 E12 where they spend the whole con repeatedly drugging a guy to mess with his head, it's a very trigger possible episode
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Is someone restrained?
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Lots of handcuff scenes but most of the cast can pick locks so it's treated like a joke through the series of how quickly they can get out of them and that it's ridiculous people think handcuffs can actually keep them restrained
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Parker’s female caregiver is slapped by her partner during Parker’s flashback.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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E7
A character squirts lemon juice in a man’s eyes while they’re fighting, but it’s safe to assume his eyes are totally fine eventually
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Is someone tortured?
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S4
E7
One of the main characters has claustrophobia and is buried alive.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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S3
"The Studio Job" opens with a musician getting his hands broken by thugs.
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Is someone burned alive?
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E7
No but in a flashback, two characters are fighting in a burning building and one of them hits the other in the face with a burning board. The man clutches his face but you can’t see anything graphic. He’s shown in the current time with a healed scar on his cheek from the incident
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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S1
E7
Multiple knife fight scenes but no one is actually cut or stabbed
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Is someone buried alive?
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S4
E7
Major character and main plot point of the episode. The character survives.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
45 supporters
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S1
E2
Eliot punches a guy in the throat in his first scene in this episode. We can hear him choking briefly before collapsing
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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E2
eliot punches a guy in the throat. he collapses but the severity is unclear
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Are any hands damaged?
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S2
E11
Two people get their fingers broken
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Is someone choked?
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E2
eliot punches a guy in the throat in his first scene in this ep. The guy chokes and struggles to breathe before collapsing.
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Is someone stabbed?
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S3
E1
A major character stabs a minor character to ensure they are out of harms way.
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Are there dislocations?
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S1
E1
Eliot assaults multiple guards as part of his role as the hitter. It’s technically self defence, but the team aren’t supposed to be there and the guards are just trying to do their jobs. There are SFX, and brief blurred visuals.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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E18
resolution to the episode involves two characters falling off of a hydro dam into the water below. this is not shown visually, rather implied through audio.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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E2
eliot knocks out one guy on screen and two more before the scene starts in his first appearance in this episode.
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Does someone break a bone?
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E11
Broken fingers
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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S1
E7
Only shown very briefly. A bad guy falls backwards and sort of tumbles down a few steps, but it’s unclear how long the staircase is or if he keeps falling because the camera quickly cuts away
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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the son of a main character is a major background event that affects the character greatly. There are flashbacks of the event across the series they primarily occur in the first season (Episodes 1 and 13 as well as some others)
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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The main character's father dies during the series and his son is shown dying during a reoccuring flashback.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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E15
No death involved but a character "gets caught" and sent to prison so other characters do not.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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S1
E1
Parker fakes being a burn victim as part of the escape from the break in. She is not physically disabled, but really plays up a lack of mobility and a decent amount of pain, as part of the con, and acts in overly stereotypical ways re: the disfigurement aspect of a large full body burn scar.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a family member die?
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E1
Nate’s son dies before the start of the show.
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Does someone cheat?
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E2
In the opening scene, Perry’s friend accuses him of cheating on his fiancée with a “drunk slutty camel” as a joke. Perry plays into the joke, but likely has not actually cheated.
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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E1
Parker gets sick in the hospital
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Is there audio gore?
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S1
E7
Some bone cracking noises
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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E18
A character mentions peeing himself, but its only mentioned.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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S1
E1
the team uses the FBI to arrest their mark, but the FBI is not portrayed as helpful or positive beyond the impact that the arrest would have on the target. State and local police are portrayed more as a work hazard and fairly gullible in this episode.
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Is there incarceration?
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S1
E1
there is threat of arrest and incarceration in the hospital scene from the extended cut of this episode. No one is actually arrested or jailed, but Eliot is in handcuffs when Hardison puts him in the back seat of a police car as part of the escape. This scene is not present in the official cut.
Dubenich is arrested and put in jail off screen at the end of the episode
Dubenich is arrested and put in jail off screen at the end of the episode
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LGBTQ+
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Live Theatre
Is there smoke or haze?
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S1
E7
Only from a cigar
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Loss
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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The main character's son dies of cancer and the plot of the first season revolves around that. Many scenes of child in hospital/flat lining.
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Are there heart attacks?
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S1
The husband of the person they help in an episode has a heart attack due to something he was taking.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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S1
E1
in the extended version of this episode there is a hospital scene. it is not present in the shorter, official cut.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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S1
E2
someone is electrocuted but it is in self-defence against a bad guy and using an defibrillator
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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S1
E1
in the extended version of this episode there are scenes in a general hospital. it is not present in the shorter, official cut.
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Mental Health
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S4
E18
Arguably. A major character could have avoided dying, but he was dazed from having been knocked unconscious.
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S5
E12
They spend all this episode drugging and psychology torturing a guy until he's so uncertain whether he's awake or asleep he tries to jump off a building to prove it, he's mid panic attack during the scene, it's intense
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Is autism misrepresented?
49 supporters
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S1
E1
Parker is autistic but the show does a very good job of accurately portraying it. Some lines and behaviours are a little rough or inconsistent, but overall it’s good representation.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
41 supporters
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S1 Ep 13 “the second David job” Said in the past tense, in more graphic/specific terms.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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S1
E2
most main characters have subtle signs of PTSD
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
36 supporters
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S4
E18
There's a brief bit near the end where a man is recovering from being knocked out and reality is fuzzy. Nothing worse than out of focus wobbly.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A character has a panic attack in an elevator due to fear of heights and claustrophobia
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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S1
E1
Nate struggles with alcoholism and depression. Most characters have subtle signs of PTSD
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Final episode of the series.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Not autism specific, but a main character who happens to be on the spectrum was exploited as a foster child.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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In the Miracle job (season 1 episode 4) a claustiphobic character is in an elevator and has a panic attack and in The Grave Danger Job (season 4 episode 7) a character gets buried alive. A character frequently crawls around in vents but isn't upset about it. there are a couple of episodes that involve characters being underground (in mines) but it isn't distressing for any character
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
68 supporters
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S4
An episode is filmed in the style of "the Office," which includes some shaky cam work.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
63 supporters
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S4
E6
There's a fight in a hall of mirrors, this could trigger that. Proceed with caution.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
54 supporters
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S1
E1
Sudden gunfire in Eliot’s flashback.
Parker’s house exploded in her flashback.
Nate smashes some car windows outside the office building in the extended cut of this episode, which results in three different loud and sudden car alarms. This scene is not present in the official cut.
Parker’s house exploded in her flashback.
Nate smashes some car windows outside the office building in the extended cut of this episode, which results in three different loud and sudden car alarms. This scene is not present in the official cut.
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Does a baby cry?
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S1
E7
There’s a mention of a character accidentally tuning in to the frequency of a baby monitor and hearing crying, but we don’t actually hear the crying ourselves
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Is there screaming?
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S1
E2
there is some yelling in the clip at the beginning. the clip is replayed during the briefing.
Parker pushes Hardison off a roof. He screams, but is properly secured and completely unharmed. She does scare him by telling him the harness she designed herself has not been tested yet, right before she pushes him, but Parker knows her ropes and knows they are properly secured and safe, and explains the safety mechanisms on the harness to him before.
Sophie and Nate start an argument with each other as a distraction for the heist.
Parker pushes Hardison off a roof. He screams, but is properly secured and completely unharmed. She does scare him by telling him the harness she designed herself has not been tested yet, right before she pushes him, but Parker knows her ropes and knows they are properly secured and safe, and explains the safety mechanisms on the harness to him before.
Sophie and Nate start an argument with each other as a distraction for the heist.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
21 supporters
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S1
E1
The team monitors security feeds to keep track of the security team during the break in. They also place hidden microphones in Dubenich’s office to spy on him. He discovers only one of the mics.
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
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S4
E17
A character pretends to be pregnant
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
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S1
E4
There is a quick scene of a baby (at the end of the episode) participating in a church event. it is very quick and easy to skip. The baby doesn't cry in the scene
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
65 supporters
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S1
E7
A thin character is called fat multiple times and she’s very clearly upset about it.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
56 supporters
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S3
Sailor Bubba is shown making two of the main characters feel uncomfortable but that's about it.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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2
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S1
E1
Parker has fake burn scars, a crutch, and a leg brace temporarily as a con to escape after the first break in. They use the guard’s poor reaction and accuse him of ableism to distract him into leaving them alone. Parker fake cries, makes pain noises, etc. to reinforce the con.
When they meet Sophie, Parker asks if she has a head injury as a reaction to Sophie’s acting skills, with a negative tone that can be read as ableist.
When they meet Sophie, Parker asks if she has a head injury as a reaction to Sophie’s acting skills, with a negative tone that can be read as ableist.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
41 supporters
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1
No
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S4
E7
One of the protagonists in the episode is part of a mexican drug cartel.
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Is there hate speech?
40 supporters
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Intersex phobic comments in s3 e2
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A Jewish family tries to get a painting back that was taken from them during WWII. Anti-Semitism is mentioned, but doesn't occur in the present.
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Does the black guy die first?
29 supporters
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Hardison survives plan M.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Is religion discussed?
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S1
E4
It's mentioned a few times throughout the series (as one of the main characters actually went to seminary school), but the main religion-centric ep is 1.04 The Miracle Job
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
119 supporters
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S1
E2
In the opening scene Perry’s friend accuses him of cheating on his fiancée with a “drunk slutty camel” as a joke. Perry plays into the joke but it is presumably not a true thing that happened
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Are there fat suits?
37 supporters
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S4
E18
Not a fat suit, but a character wears a fake pregnant belly device.
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Spoiler
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
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No
8
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an adult main character still believes in santa et al. no one ruins it for her.
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
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No
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There is a narrowly avoided plane crash that takes almost an entire episode
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
16 supporters
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S1
E1
in the extended cut, nate smashes multiple car windows, setting off alarms for three different cars. This scene is not present in the official cut.
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Does a car crash?
1 supporters
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11
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S2
E1
a major element and scene of the episode. the car is electronically hacked (not by the main characters!) and is made to speed up. the driver is unable to brake only steer. there is a minor in the car. the car hits a curb and flips, landing upside down. a bystander grabs an item out of the back of the car and runs, leaving the passengers. a main character helps the passengers out of the car, prioritizing the minor before returning for the adult. once all characters are out of the car and moving away, the car explodes. the driver sustains serious injuries and is in hospital for the duration of the episode. the minor only sustains minor injuries.
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Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
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several incidents. multiple main characters are hit by vehicles for the sake of the job, but with little harm done to them. several targets/victims and minor characters are also involved in car crashes, usually with minor to moderate injuries afterwards.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
80 supporters
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S4
E18
Light blood from fight scenes. Nothing worse than split lips and bloody noses.
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Does someone drown?
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S1
E1
A guard is knocked out and left face down in a full sink. It’s brief, but ambiguous in whether they inhale any water.
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Is there gun violence?
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E2
Corporal Perry is suddenly shot multiple times by military contractors in the opening scene. The clip is replayed during the briefing. There is SFX of heavy gunfire and shouting. Perry is in a rehab facility as a result of the shooting. Guns are used as threats throughout the episode.
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