Does the dog die?
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Severance
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Snowjunky360
A dog appears briefly in episodes 8 and 9 but it is mostly inconsequential and is completely unharmed.
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Unanswered Triggers
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Does someone have a mental illness?
95 supporters
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8BitMonkey
depression is never explicitly diagnosed or named, but is portrayed heavily in multiple characters.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
145 supporters
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8BitMonkey
a character leaves her baby under the watch of someone she wholeheartedly believes she can trust. the one watching the baby leaves the house without the baby, and the mother is shown screaming and panicking when she realizes her baby can't be found. shortly afterwards, the baby is found perfectly safe in a spare bedroom. not necessarily "abandonment", but still worth mentioning.
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Abuse
Is someone gaslighted?
412 supporters
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JeanE
The premise of the show is that people’s work and home life memories are severed. At work, the people are manipulated and brainwashed.
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Is someone stalked?
270 supporters
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JeanE
A man sees someone he doesn’t recognize standing outside watching him.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
226 supporters
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amilnu
alcoholism throughout season 1
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
208 supporters
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swoonsing
The main character, frequently.
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Animal
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Are animals abused?
1,529 supporters
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Snowjunky360
Aforementioned goats are in episode 5 but the only insinuation is “They aren’t ready yet.”
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Assault
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
101 supporters
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
502 supporters
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Snowjunky360
A character is cut by window glass, and the cut is seen a few moments later as it is being bandaged up.
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Does a head get squashed?
573 supporters
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swoonsing
A villainous character is beaten to death with a bat early in episode 7. We see the first swing at their head, hear the others, and then see a heavy trail of blood as the body is dragged away.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
633 supporters
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carturo222
There is explicit threat of self-inflicted finger amputation. In the end, it doesn't happen.
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Is there cannibalism?
317 supporters
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carturo222
One character physically attacks another by biting his arm, but the intention is more to injure than to eat.
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Is there eye mutilation?
981 supporters
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No but there is a scene in episode 5 where irv looks at mark while black goo drips from the ceiling and there is black goo coming from one of marks eyes
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Is there body horror?
216 supporters
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kelseyj610
S1
E5
Irv starts to see black sludge dripping from the ceiling. Mark turns to look at him and the sludge is dripping from one of Mark's eyes.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
148 supporters
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8BitMonkey
a character attempts hanging themselves with an extension cord. they're shown kicking and flailing while choking at the end of the episode and at the beginning of the next. they're saved from dying, but they have visible bruises on their neck for a while afterwards.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
328 supporters
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amilnu
end of episode 4
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Does someone become unconscious?
95 supporters
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lilpig
Multiple occurrences. The act of severance also basically means that a person has two identities, and one is no longer conscious whenever the other is activated.
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Is someone tortured?
760 supporters
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JeanE
It is psychological torture. They force them to say things.
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Is there amputation?
310 supporters
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lilycron
A character threatens to cut her fingers off but doesn’t follow through
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Does someone have a seizure?
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S1E3 towards the end a character has a spell that resembles a seizure
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Is there a hanging?
489 supporters
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Wabley
End of episode 4/beginning of episode 5
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
156 supporters
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circle2
S1
E9
There is an intense scene involving parents panicking thinking their baby has been kidnapped, but the baby is eventually found safe.
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Death
Does someone die?
105 supporters
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ColleenPoggers
Many characters die offscreen, and a character is killed onscreen at the start of S1E7.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
122 supporters
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lilpig
"Sacrificial" efforts are made by numerous characters, but none result in death.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
326 supporters
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Petey’s outie is revealed to be a father after his death
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Does someone cheat?
212 supporters
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
S1
There are discussions around severed characters cheating because they don't know their "outies" are married.
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Does a family member die?
107 supporters
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
S1
Mark's wife's recent death is often discussed.
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Is someone kidnapped?
171 supporters
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carturo222
[SPOILER]
It is implied that one character everyone believes is dead is actually kept locked up against her will.
It is implied that one character everyone believes is dead is actually kept locked up against her will.
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Fear
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Are there mannequins?
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lilpig
There are uncanny wax statues displayed in a museum--offputting, but not used in an overtly scary way.
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Is there a shower scene?
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circle2
A male character is shown showering but it is not framed in a sexual way.
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Are there clowns?
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carturo222
One jester in an exaggerated mask does a dance number.
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kelseyj610
S1
E4
Mentioned - "I could not, with a razor to my throat, be less interested in being your family"
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Is someone possessed?
164 supporters
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carturo222
Each of the protagonists has two identities in the same body, but it's a medical procedure, not supernatural.
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Gross
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Is someone eaten?
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ColleenPoggers
Not onscreen, but there is a painting depicting someone eating someone else’s innards that becomes a plot point.
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Does someone vomit?
1,195 supporters
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amilnu
Episode 7 "Defiant Jazz" around 5 minutes 50 seconds in - character vomits onscreen
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
385 supporters
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Anonymous
Photography near end of series reminiscent of oversimplified portraits of life in institutions and residential treatment facilities
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Are needles/syringes used?
497 supporters
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Towards the beginning of S1E2. Definitely skip if you don’t like medical content
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Is there a hospital scene?
197 supporters
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JeanE
A medical procedure is shown.
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Mental Health
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sadgirl
Intense suicide by hanging attempt(ep4-5), suicide by jumping off bridge in episode 4.
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moonlike9
No, but someone attempts suicide in episode four and episode five references it heavily.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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JoeGallagher
Autism/ABA is not the subject matter, but several scenes and the general premise heavily feature infantilization, reward structures, punishments, and forced expectation that several characters perform their work duties without question without understanding what they do, which may closely parallel ABA-related traumas
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
262 supporters
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swoonsing
A side character suffers from a condition very reminiscent of PTSD in the first few episodes, including flashbacks and dissociation.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
238 supporters
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moonlike9
The hallway scenes throughout can give a sense of claustrophobia
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A character threatens to cut her fingers off with a paper cutter in S1E4
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
273 supporters
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sadgirl
Episode 4 character threatens suicide
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
272 supporters
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swoonsing
Used very liberally throughout season 1.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
353 supporters
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swoonsing
Content warnings are provided onscreen beforehand for the episodes where flashing is present, but those warnings are there for actually most of them. I personally didn't find any of it very extreme — I didn't even notice it most of the time, I couldn't tell you where the flashing was in half the episodes that had warnings — but I'm not especially photosensitive.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
111 supporters
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
S1
Mark's neighbor watches him and snoops through his house.
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Pregnancy
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Yes
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Is there childbirth?
276 supporters
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candytree
Nothing graphic at all shown on screen, it's more heavy implication
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Prejudice
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Does an LGBT person die?
639 supporters
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lilpig
An LGBT character meets a fate that is comparable to death and is mourned, but they are still alive.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
46 supporters
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JoeGallagher
The founding family of the company most of the characters work for is portrayed to have founded an organized religion/cult and entrapped their employees in it, with characters having varied relationships to this religion ranging from rejection and entrapment, to fanatic devotion. Religious texts and painted imagery associated with this religion are seen and quoted frequently, and evoke imagery from real world religions. No real-world religions are explicitly portrayed aside from some minor christian imagery, and exclamations like "Jesus Christ."
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Sex
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Is there sexual content?
718 supporters
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swoonsing
Two characters are seen briefly in bed together after sex (towards the end of episode 6) and there's a rather disturbing scene with suggestive outfits and dancing (2/3 through episode 8), but there is no explicit sex. Not a lot of references to it, either.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
736 supporters
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
111 supporters
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0
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redrosy
There are behaviors in certain characters (especially Petey) that are similar, but nobody has a stroke specifically.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
129 supporters
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charlie_o
the whole premise of the show does heavily rely on people temporarily forgetting large parts of their memories (not caused by dementia/Alzheimer) though, so i could see how it could be triggering
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
536 supporters
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8BitMonkey
at the time of writing, there's only been one season, so there isn't really an ending yet, but season one's finale ends with a lot of ambiguity and mixed emotions.
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
180 supporters
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lilycron
Someone is almost hit in the first episode
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Does a car crash?
189 supporters
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shamwowxl
We don't see it, but a character is referred to as having died in a car crash
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
546 supporters
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24
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Seall
Episode 2, about two minutes in. There’s a scene of someone’s head being cut open very graphically
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