The Great

TV Show • 2020  

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A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.
This tv show contains 107 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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AslansDad
A dog dies after eating poisoned soup
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Are there fat suits?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Is there BDSM?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone homeless?
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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cstein
The emperor punches the empress in the first episode after the party scene
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S1
 E2
A woman is badly whipped
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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cstein
So far not on screen, but it is discussed that the emperor’s mother was abusive
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Addiction
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Rowynn
In season 2, two characters eat some sort of psychedelic plant. This is shown as a positive experience. There is also copious consumption of alcohol, including while a character is pregnant. The same character, also while pregnant, takes what is essentially cocaine to stay awake.
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
81 supporters
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LidaGoon
S3
 E6
Spoiler alert! Season 3 episode 6 Ice: horse falls through ice and drowns
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
148 supporters
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cstein
The bear gets shot in the party scene near the end of the first episode. It’s pretty fake looking but does happen.
A raccoon is also killed in the second episode, and a doe is shown being shot (again, it looks very fake).
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Are animals abused?
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Doodlebugisdoodling
EPISODE 1. (About 37 minutes in)
A bear is presented to the empress as a gift from the emperor on her arrival and is kept on a chain.
It dies from a gunshot wound, gets killed by the emperor first episode.
EPISODE 2 (About 11 minutes in. Over by 12:35)
There is a fight between a puppy & a raccoon for sport as entertainment for the court. It happens offscreen inside a log, but the puppy emerges bloody.


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cstein
In the second episode a dog and a raccoon are put in a tree trunk together presumably to fight. The dog comes out covered in blood but unharmed, insinuating it killed the raccoon.
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ATW9
Dead bear in first episode, several dead birds, a crocodile that is brutally stabbed, etc. This show has just lots of dead animals.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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S1
 E1
Shot at but not explicitly killed
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Anonymous
S1
 E1
The pet bear is shot.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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midnights
S1
 E4
In season 1 episode 4 43:55 there is a thin one shown and then it’s in the background and it stops at around 44:20. I don’t know why people are saying no
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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theres a lot of butterflies
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Assault
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S1
 E1
A woman gets punched in the gut by her husband
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Is someone drugged?
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cy.bers
Character is drugged multiple times by tea
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Is there pedophilia?
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Abee
In season 1 episode 2 there is an intense scene where someone is held under water almost to the point of drowning
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Is rape mentioned?
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laurenhouse
Rape is mentioned many times throughout the series
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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VickiH
Catherine is penetrated (fingers) by a clergymen in the first episode. This is mentioned throughout the season and she seems traumatized by it. In another scene, a man starts to have sex with a corpse.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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AutumnLane
Given the iffy power dynamics with royalty even supposedly willing encounters are essentially occuring under an implicit threat. Peter beats Leo and threatens to kill him if he doesn't "satisfy" Catherine, and whoever is ruling the country with absolute authority at the moment can't really have uncoerced encounters with anyone... especially someone they've threatened/attempted to kill. Which happens frequently.
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Bodily Harm
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maxsplaining
There’s shaving that’s alluded/implied to happen to during episode 3, but you don’t see it. However Orlo is told to shave the mans beard and enters Catherine’s room after with blood all over his face
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LisaW13
When Catherine meets the sultan in season 2 he hands is stabbed
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Are there dislocations?
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LisaW13
A serf has her throat cut by a noble woman.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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S1
 E1
At one point a head is seen mounted on a pike
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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TFMD
To add more detail, the scene in episode 4 where the priest burns himself alive is not overly graphic or prolonged. We see him light his robes on fire and he makes a couple of pained sounds but the camera focuses mostly on the onlookers' faces.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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S1
 E2
They eat dessert next to the decapitated heads of their swedish enemies and then gouge the eyes out
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Is there amputation?
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Meathead69
There are soldiers shown to be missing legs and arms, as well as multiple decapitated heads. The act is not shown on screen, but it is gruesome.
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MelFox
Orlo by the Patriarch but he doesn’t die. There is some blood.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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5
Is there a hanging?
34 supporters
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Scarroll18
Episode 6, 3:10-6:10. Bodies are shown hanging in the background
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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9
Does someone become unconscious?
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6
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1
Does someone break a bone?
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1
Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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31
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MelFox
Nail pulling during torture scene
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Is someone tortured?
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TFMD
S01E09 contains very graphic torture scenes. Peter decides to have everyone at court tortured to discover who is plotting against him. It shows terrified people awaiting their turn to be tortured as well as graphic depictions of the torture itself. Several of the main characters are among the victims but they're OK afterward. Like most of the other horrors in this show, it's played as dark humour, but could still be very upsetting.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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KirJ
S02EP08 - someone falls out of a window while having sex. Time stamp is 49:40-50:10 It is not too graphic, the person lays on grass, and the only blood seen is a few streaks from their mouth
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Doodlebugisdoodling
EPISODE 2
Decapitated heads of dead Swedish enemies are placed around on silver trays on the formal dinning table during dinner service. Then (at around the 41 minute mark) the emperor pulls the eyeballs out of one of them. Then everyone stands and does the same, including empress Catherine.
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Is someone stabbed?
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LisaW13
Many are stabbed throughout the series so not sure why people say no.
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Is there excessive gore?
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3
Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
41 supporters
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31
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Scarroll18
Episode 5, 46:30. A child’s body is shown with their throat slit
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0
Catherine refers to herself as a child bride.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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3
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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1
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5
Does a major character die?
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6
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1
Yes
12
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0
S1
 E2
A deer is shot on screen, and a dog is made to fight a raccoon to death off screen
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Does someone die?
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2
Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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5
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2
Family
Does a family member die?
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7
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1
Does a parent die?
19 supporters
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25
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Rowynn
Though no parents die on screen, the dead body of the emperor's mother, preserved in a glass case, is shown several times. This is played as dark humor. His father, also dead, is mentioned frequently, but his death itself is never brought up.
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3
its not shown but marial mentions that she burned tatyana’s children’s toys
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1
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Anonymous
Season 2 episode 9 a child is kidnapped
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Does someone cheat?
17 supporters
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43
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0
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ATW9
A regular plot point is the emperor sleeping with his best friends wife. The friend is aware but is clearly regularly distressed by this.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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3
No
18
0
Anonymous
Season 2 episode 8 peter hallucinates and speaks with his dead father. He is not depicted as very ghostlike
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Are there jump scares?
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Yes
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3
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cstein
There are bathing scenes
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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8
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0
Are there clowns?
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0
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22
Is someone possessed?
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18
Is trypophobic content shown?
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3
Are there razors?
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12 supporters
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6
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1
0
S1
 E2
A man is forced at knifepoint to shave another's face unwillingly
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Are there mannequins?
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6
Gross
Does someone vomit?
92 supporters
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48
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1
5
jabpunch
There’s a particularly graphic vomit scene in episode 5 around 13:50 until 14:20.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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14
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1
Is someone eaten?
0 supporters
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4
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1
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laurenhouse
At one point someone starts to get eaten by a bear. You only see the beginning and then the camera goes back to a character who is running from the scene.
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Yes
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1
0
damalojo
S1
Yes, quite graphically with sound effects and facial expressions.
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Does someone spit?
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Yes
28
No
1
Is there audio gore?
40 supporters
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Yes
11
No
3
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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0
No
10
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
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0
No
10
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
0
No
5
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
30 supporters
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0
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6
Is there bisexual cheating?
20 supporters
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0
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6
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
21 supporters
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0
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4
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
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2
No
1
Medical
Yes
4
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19
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Anonymous
Not elecro-therapy, but electric torture happens
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Are needles/syringes used?
31 supporters
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0
No
14
Is there a mental institution scene?
26 supporters
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0
No
19
Yes
2
No
14
0
Anonymous
No hospital scene, but a bedside care scene when a character is sick toward the end of season 1
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6
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1
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laurenhouse
S1
There is talk about her getting her having her “blood” for several weeks.
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Does someone have cancer?
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0
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14
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
13 supporters
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2
No
1
Yes
20
No
4
10
cstein
There is a scene where someone almost cuts their wrists but they’re stopped
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Is autism misrepresented?
28 supporters
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0
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4
1
Anonymous
No one is explicitly mentioned to have a mental illness, but most characters have at least one moment when they behave violently
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
19 supporters
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0
No
7
Is there autism specific abuse?
38 supporters
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0
No
17
0
overturezzzmedia
The character is interrupted before she is able to do so
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
20 supporters
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1
No
4
Does someone have a meltdown?
8 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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7
No
1
Yes
25
No
1
3
jesslrand
Episode 5, Catherine has a pretty intense one.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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4
2
Rowynn
Near the end of episode 1, a character comes close to cutting their wrists, but is stopped before going through with it.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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5
Is there body dysmorphia?
29 supporters
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14
Yes
29
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0
2
Rowynn
in episode 2, a character up put in a fairly small box and dropped into a body of water. the character is released before any damage is done, but it may be upsetting to some viewers.
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Anonymous
During pregnancy, Catherine shows symptoms of pica, eating non-food items such as dirt
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6
cstein
Someone burns themselves alive in episode 4, one of the holy men.
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Yes
8
No
4
1
Abee
Not shown explicitly but implied for some war survivors
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
7 supporters
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5
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0
Yes
4
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0
0
S1
 E1
Gunshots, sometimes without warning
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Is there shakey cam?
36 supporters
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Yes
11
No
1
Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
Yes
4
No
5
0
LisaW13
Paul does have a brief moment when he cried but it is minimal
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Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
6 supporters
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Yes
9
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0
Are there flashing lights or images?
45 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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Yes
6
No
1
Is the fourth wall broken?
13 supporters
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Yes
1
No
6
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
0 supporters
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0
No
6
Yes
2
No
10
1
Mummel
not shown on screen, but it is mentioned that one of the courtladies had multiple miscarriages
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1
nyangata
A character is pregnant for a large portion of the series, and her baby is in the rest of the series.
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Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
Yes
15
No
5
2
StoryRoyalty
Catherine's pregnancy is a pretty big plot point, she eventually gives birth
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Are there abortions?
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0
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12
Does a pregnant person die?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
39 supporters
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Yes
20
No
2
Yes
15
No
0
Are there usages of the n-word?
30 supporters
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0
No
12
2
Rowynn
the antisemitism of the characters is never endorsed by the narrative.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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0
No
7
Does an LGBT person die?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
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35
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0
1
S1
 E1
The emperor refers to one of his generals as a "fat fuck"
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Is there aphobia?
19 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Does the black guy die first?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
24
Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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Yes
20
No
1
Race
Is there blackface?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Relationships
Yes
6
No
1
0
An adult woman is betrothed to a young boy. Their relationship is unsexual and not romantic in nature but they do refer to eachother as husband and wife
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Religious
Yes
6
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0
0
laurenhouse
Christianity is in every episode
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Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
40 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
Yes
4
No
1
0
Abee
frequently joked that one character had sex with a horse (untrue) and a drawing of a character having sex with a donkey is shown briefly. No actual cases of beastiality
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LisaW13
The empress gives her virginity on their wedding night.
Marial and Grigor age mentioned as giving their virginity to each other when younger
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Is someone sexually objectified?
44 supporters
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11
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0
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
87 supporters
Yes
23
No
4
5
CristianDiegoRioParlatore
The aunt drescribes having sex with her brother-in-law, not her brother. It was her late sisters husband.
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47
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0
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Rowynn
So much sexual content. Just so much. Of every kind. In every episode. In most of the scenes in every episode.
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Sexism
Yes
8
No
0
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
10 supporters
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Yes
5
No
1
Does someone have a chronic illness?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there end credit scenes?
34 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Does it have a sad ending?
51 supporters
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Yes
2
No
8
Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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0
No
5
Does a car crash?
19 supporters
Yes
0
No
18
1
laurenhouse
S1
No but a carriage crashes
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Does a plane crash?
11 supporters
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0
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22
Is someone hit by a car?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
Yes
7
No
12
11
cstein
At the end of the first episode the empress is almost drowned.
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Yes
36
No
0
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cstein
In the first episode a man’s head is shown being carried on a stick
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
7 supporters
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0
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20
Is there gun violence?
23 supporters
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Yes
32
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0