Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV Show • 1989
ReportFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
This tv show contains 8 potentially triggering events.
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Is an animal sad?
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TimJackdaw
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Maybe the cat was sad because Johnnie wasn’t there to pet it anymore but his mom took good care of it so all is well
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Briefly left unattended
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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TimJackdaw
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Not outright but definitely a bit dubious, not in a way that I think would be triggering to most, but best I mention it at least
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Is someone stalked?
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charmedward
S11E03 An older woman tails a man.
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General note: Episodes S01E05, S03E01, S03E06 and S13E03 are about spouses killing their partners, with no other violence taking place in the relationship beforehand. S01E07 A husband kills his controlling and cruel wife. S04E01 A man threatens to violently kill his wife. This information is relayed to us by another character and we never see it on screen, but the wife is killed and suspicion naturally falls on the verbally abusive husband. S12E03 A husband and other men stone his wife for adultery. S12E04 A husband shouts at his wife and later strikes her in the face. S13E04 A husband screams at his wife and strikes her, leaving a mark on her face and making her cry. S13E05 A wife repeatedly verbally abuses her husband and he later shoots her. It's unclear if it was an accident or intentional. Another husband is suspected of murdering his wife in this same episode.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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S03E06. All of S11E03. S13E04 A doctor gaslights their patient.
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charmedward
S11E02. A P.E. teacher fat shames and then forces a young girl to exercise until she vomits. In the same episode it's revealed that a teacher preyed on a student. S11E04 A parent emotionally and verbally abuses their children throughout their lives. Later around 52:00 there is a flashback of young children being beaten with a cane, screaming out and crying. It's graphic and very disturbing. S13E01 It's mentioned that a mother drowns her child.
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Addiction
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charmedward
S10E04, morphine. S12E03 A sedative. S13E05 Someone takes another character's prescription sleeping pills. Later a character is unknowingly drugged with sleeping pills for their own protection.
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Is there addiction?
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S02E01 A woman is shown doing cocaine, she's been on it for years. S02E03 Opium addiction is shown. S03E03 A character has a gambling addiction. S03E10 A minor character has a cocaine addiction and fatally overdoses. S10E04 Two morphine addicts. S13E05 It's implied that a character is regularly taking prescription sleeping pills bought illegally and without the approval of their doctor.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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In series 1 ep 9 there is a scene where a character is drunk and shouting. In the rest of series 1 alcohol is sometimes drunk but not excessively
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Animal
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S03E06 A crow is shot and killed. We see the body. S03E11 Grouse are shot at by hunters. We don't actually see them die, but later a character mentions cooking with the dead birds. S13E05 Pigeons are shot by a hunter.
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Are animals abused?
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S13E05 Animal testing mentioned and shown on screen with cages of rats in a lab littered with test tubes and other science equipment.
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Is there a dead animal?
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S04E01 The taxidermy body of a Caiman (like a small crocodiles) is seen in a handful of scenes. S11E04 A dead goat is shown twice in flashbacks. S13E05 A dead pigeon is shown, with a close up on their bloody head.
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Does a cat die?
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S13E02 A mention of a dead cat in someone's past.
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Are there spiders?
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tunnelassembler
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S6E1, 44 minutes in, shopkeeper offers a large, fake one as a gag gift.
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Are there snakes?
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Brita
S01e06 Triangle at Rhodes: After Poirot visits the small church, there is a close up of a snake (or possibly snakes :P).
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Are there bugs?
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S02E02 A couple of big spiders are seen at 25:10 for three seconds. S03E05 A few shots of wasps through out the episode. S13E05 at 47:00 there is a large spider for just a second or two.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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S1 ep5 Poirot tells a man to sniff a bottle, which makes the man fall unconscious._______Also, not drugged, but someone is poisoned in S1 ep3 so they become ill and in S1 ep6 someone has their drink poisoned and dies
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S01E09 A man in a position of power tries to blackmail a female employee into having sex with him, but luckily this is prevented and the employee is never harmed. This story is retold to us by the lady and is never shown on screen. In S03E05 Someone speculates that a woman was forcibly kissed by a man off screen, but later it's discovered that she actually consented. S13E04 a woman claims that a naked man let himself into her room with the intention of attacking her, but ran before he could touch her. This is later proved to be a lie, as no man entered her room.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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S03E08 Four quick flashes throughout the episode of people being cut by rapier blades. All the wounds bleed.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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charmedward
S12E03 A woman appears to have a short seizure and struggles to breathe. S13E03 A girl is strangled with a length of rope and we see her try to resist. Later a woman is smothered with a pillow. S13E05 Multiple times a character wheezes and struggles to breathe, needing smelling salts to calm them and regulate their breathing again.
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Is someone burned alive?
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S13E02 A character is drugged and their head put in a fire place. They die.
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Is there a hanging?
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Many episodes reference or explicitly show people being hanged for crimes.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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No but in S1 Ep7 a woman sings a song with some lyrics about strangulation
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Does someone become unconscious?
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S1 ep5 a man sniffs a bottle and falls unconscious
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Does someone have a seizure?
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charmedward
S03E01 A person is heard having some kind of prolonged fit off screen. When we see them on screen they writhe and gasp until they die. S03E02 A person has a seizure and dies. S12E03 A woman appears to have a short seizure and struggles to breathe.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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TimJackdaw
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There is a dentist scene though
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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charmedward
Sort of? S03E10 A coroner uses a metal tool to pry open the stiff hand of a dead body. We hear cracks that might be bones breaking, but it's unclear as the camera doesn't show it. When the camera cuts back to the hand, it's open and looks undamaged.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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S01E04 The twisted corpse of a man lies at the bottom of a staircase. S01E10 Two men roll down a flight of stairs, slowly and without getting injured. S10E03 We see the seconds immediately after the fall, with the body lying at the bottom.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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S13E01 we see a woman accidentally go over a cliff. S13E04 A man falls from a mountain
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Is there eye mutilation?
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S03E08 A person looking through a small hole is stabbed with a rapier. We see this from the POV of the murderer as they jab the weapon into the hole and we don't actually see the injury or the body after.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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charmedward
S12E02 A 13 year old's body is discovered with their head in a bucket of water. The body is clearly shown. Later we see the drowned body of a teen boy. At the end of the episode another teenager is almost murdered and we explicitly see (in flashback) the 13 year old's murder. S12E03 The entire plot is about a murdered child. S13E01 We hear a story about a child drowned by their mother. S13E03 A 14 year old's body is found and clearly shown on screen.
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Ellie_red
S1
no, but there are some episodes where characters die from their drinks being poisoned
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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S03E01 The parent of adult children dies in front of them. S07E01 A parent of an adult man is killed. S09E01 The entire episode is about a (now grown) child trying to find out the truth of her parents' death. S09E02 A parent is killed. S09E04 A father of young children is killed (though they are absent for it). S11E03 A 7 year old found her mother in the process of dying by self-inflicted cuts. We're told the girl tried to save her but it was too late. An explicit flashback shows the moment the girl discovers her mum. S11E03. Multiple parents die in front of their adult children. S12E02 Multiple mentions of dead parents. S13E01 Multiple dead parents, all of adult children. One sees the body of their parent and is distressed. S13E05 It's mentioned that the mother of an adult character has passed away.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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S01E03 The entire episode is about a kidnapping of a small boy. S11E02 There's a minor kidnapping plot. The child isn't harmed.
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Does someone cheat?
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charmedward
S01E02, S01E05, S01E06, S02E04, S02E09, S03E01, S03E05, S03E08, S08E02, S09E01, S09E02, S09E04, S10E01, S10E02, S11E03, S12E03, S13E01, S13E02, S13E03, S13E04
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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charmedward
S03E06 Multiple mentions of a ghost story, culminating in a faked sighting of a dead person. S12E04 a man imagines a conversation with a dead loved one. It's framed as sad and tender.
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Are there mannequins?
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Ellie_red
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/no mannequins, but in S1 Ep7 a child's doll is used for ventriloquism
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Brita
In S04e03 One, Two, Buckle My Shoe you can hear someone v* after the body of a woman is found.
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Does someone spit?
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S02E05 A man spits on the ground at 34:57
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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charmedward
Although Poirot himself is a private individual, every episode includes him working with the police and them reluctantly acting the part of the heroic justice keepers.
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Is there incarceration?
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Ellie_red
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S1 ep8 but a woman is strip searched at the police station, it's behind a frosted glass door
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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charmedward
No but it's mentioned in S13E01
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Are needles/syringes used?
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charmedward
Can't remember which episodes, but usually it's nothing more than a character holding up an old-fashioned syringe and saying it had been used.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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charmedward
S12E01 Multiple times throughout, plus a subplot about a character living there. S13E01 has multiple scenes there, plus talk of inhuman 'treatments' used in the past.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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charmedward
S02E01 A couple of scenes with a team of doctors and nurses treating a patient. S03E05 A patient in a hospital bed, one scene only. S11E02, about an hour in. Just a short scene of Poirot talking to someone in a hospital bed.
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Does someone have cancer?
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charmedward
S03E05 One character has a terminal illness, but it is not stated what it is. S04E01 A minor character has terminal cancer. S13E01 It's mentioned quite a few times.
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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charmedward
S04E01 It seems for most of the episode that a mentally ill character committed violent crimes, but this is not the case. S13E01 The entire episode's plot is about people who may have been mentally unstable and who did commit murders.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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TimJackdaw
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One sequence involves loud clock ticking, so maybe?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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charmedward
S02E01 A grieving widow says "I don't want to live" and is reckless about their personal safety. S09E03 A distressed woman makes this claim and is comforted and watched over until she no longer feels this way. S13E01 A man admits his plans to shoot himself. He follows through. S13E04 A crying man says he doesn't want to live anymore. He is helped and gets a happily ever after. S13E05 A disabled woman admits to being depressed and feeling like a burden to her husband and says she often thinks of ending her own life to free both herself and him.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Ellie_red
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S1 ep3 has a scene walking in tunnels underground. _____S1ep5 two men travel in a flat's garbage chute
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charmedward
S01E02. S02E01 It's implied that a woman intentionally overdoses. S01E10 A man says he has recurring dreams of ending his own life; he later dies in the exact manner he dreamed of. S02E08 A woman points a gun at her head, we cut away right as she pulls the trigger. S03E02 A character attempts to end their life by drinking weedkiller, but it's been replaced by alcohol and the character is not hurt. S03E05 A terminally ill character tries to ingest poison to end their life, but is prevented. S03E08 A character intentionally overdoses on pills but is saved and given medial care. S09E01. A central theory for most of the episode is suicide, so it is discussed a lot. S09E03. Double suicide by gun. S10E03. Sort of? They allowed someone to kill them. S10E04. One by gun, the other attempts an overdose but survives. S11E03 One instance of a faked suicide and a mention of an accidental suicide (the person wanted to be found and saved). S11E04 about 1:03:00 A character is discovered to have drowned themselves in a bath. Later two adults inject themselves with lethal drugs. S12E02 It's revealed that a character died of suicide. S12303 By gun, in the first few minutes. Later, mentions of two more deaths. S13E01 The episode starts with a double suicide. S13E03 A double suicide, not explicit, we just hear distant gunshots. S13E05 Mention of a character we've never met dying by suicide. Later a disabled character talks of wanting to end their life. They die shortly after and it's not clear at first if it was their own doing.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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S10E04 It's not graphic, but a character who survived an explosion requires regular drugs to cope. They are called "shell-shocked", but they don't have any flashbacks or loss of awareness for where they are. As someone with PTSD, this didn't bother me at all to watch. It's very subtle. S11E04 A character has flashbacks to a traumatic near-death experience.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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charmedward
S13E01 About 22:40.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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charmedward
S12E03 It's mentioned that a woman went into early labour and she and the child died during it.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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charmedward
S13E01 An infant is seen for a few seconds.
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Are there abortions?
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S09E02 A woman goes to get a back-ally abortion but changes her mind, after seeing the conditions of the room. We see bloody sheets being washed. S09E04 It's mentioned that a woman was forced into an abortion by a cruel and controlling partner.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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charmedward
S12E03 A husband and other men stone his pregnant wife for adultery. Later in the same episode it's mentioned that a woman and her baby died in labour.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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charmedward
S11E01 "Pansy" is used to insult the gay protagonist of one character's novels.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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charmedward
S12E04 Someone calls a blind woman a "blindie". S13E03 A mentally disabled woman is manipulated by her caregivers, her money stolen, her intelligence mocked, and finally murdered. S13E05 A wheelchair user refers to themselves as "crippled" and is generally sad about their level of dependency on others, this being brought on by old age and poor health. Later two disabled people debate the idea of euthanasia for disabled people. Later still, a character speculates that a person they dislike is faking their disability and "enjoys ill health".
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S12E04 Two Jewish people mention having suffered antisemitism in the past, but no details are given.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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charmedward
S10E03 It is implied that a gay man will be executed, but the story wraps up before it happens. S12E02 The dead body of a gay woman is shown. Later it's revealed that she took her own life because she was gay.
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Are there fat jokes?
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charmedward
S11E02. A young girl is fatshamed by her P.E. teacher during class. Later other students call her names and joke about her weight. S11E04. A man insults a larger woman he dislikes by exaggerating her weight.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Ellie_red
S1
s1 Ep 7 the middle eastern people board the westerner's boat and harrass them to buy their jewellery
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Is there hate speech?
32 supporters
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charmedward
Many episodes include white British people grumbling about their aversion to "foreigners", or using someone's citizenship as a reason to cast doubt on their character. I don't think it's ever actually directed at the person's face.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Ellie_red
S1
S1 Ep7 some teenagers have a crush on and flirt with an older man they know, but they don't have a relationship with him.________large age gap relationship in S1 ep 10 between older man and younger woman
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Religious
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
50 supporters
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TimJackdaw
S1
E4
Life drawing/Art model
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charmedward
Lots of first cousins marrying each other throughout the show, as was more common back in that period setting.
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Is there sexual content?
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charmedward
S09303 A male and female couple have sex.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
21 supporters
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charmedward
S13E04 A man berates himself for crying at work.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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charmedward
S01E09 around 11 mins. S02E06 around 27:40.
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Does a car crash?
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charmedward
S01E05 A car crashes into a market stall at 38:20, no one dies and there are no serious injuries. S02E06 A car swerves off a road and comes to a halt, but it doesn't crash into anything and no one is hurt. S03E05 We see the smoking car after a crash, but not the crash itself. No one was hurt. S01309 Mentions of car crash due to drunk driving, the driver is injured but survives. No one else is hurt and we don't actually see the crash on screen.
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Does a plane crash?
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charmedward
S03E09 Sort of? The plane hasn't taken off and is going slow on a runway. It bumps into a patch of weeds and tips forward into a shallow ditch. No one is hurt and it's all pretty gentle. S13E03 Discussion of a character killed in a plane crash.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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charmedward
S03E03 A car deliberately tries to hit a man crossing the road. At first it seems that the man is hit, but he appears unharmed. S12E04 Two women at 4:00. The camera does not cut away and both women die.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
25 supporters
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charmedward
S11E04 Multiple flashbacks of someone attempting to drown a child in a bathtub. The child survives, but is traumatized. Then at 1:03:00 A character is discovered to have drowned themselves in a bath. S12E02 A 13 year old's body is discovered with their head in a bucket of water. The body is clearly shown. Later around 26:30 the drowned body of an adult is shown. At 57:00 we see the drowned body of a teen boy. About 1:18:00ish we see someone being drowned. S13E01 A body is discovered under the water in a bath tub. Later it's mentioned that a child was drowned.
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Is there blood/gore?
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charmedward
Generally in every episode, although usually only very briefly.
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Is there gun violence?
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charmedward
Many episodes feature this. Notable instances: S11E2 A shoot out between two parties in the first two minutes of the episode.
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