A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
This tv show contains 40 potentially triggering events.
One of the characters wants a relationship with his stepdaughters (both minors) and while the show does not sexualized the young girls the character does.
The series revolves around a pair of brothers who violently murdered their sister-in-law and baby niece. In episode 7 they beat her badly in the face until she's bloody and the murders happen off-camera. Throughout the series multiple men hit their wives and are generally threatening to their families.
A Mormon leader talks about women in the church needing antipsychotic medication to help with their "feelings" and encourages a character to get his elderly mother, who has dementia, on meds.
Snake is chopped in half in the first episode. Episode two you see a dead squirrel at the beginning and then what looks like dead squirrel bodies on trees
Dead, mutilated squirrels are shown throughout episode 2, as well as a sheep and the dogs mentioned in another entry. A dead rabbit is shown in episode 4.
There is also a scene that heavily implies a father abusing his daughter. It isn’t shown but you can hear it happening in the background and then talking about it.
In episode 7 a character cuts himself while sharpening a pencil with a knife. Throats are also slit in this episode and one instance is shown up close.
There are some startling moments that may make some jump. For example when detectives are searching a home that has been broken into during a dark night.
Nobody directly says “I’ll kill myself,” however, there is a grandmother (she has dementia and says this after an episode) who expresses that she doesn’t want to live anymore briefly
miscarriage is referenced. a husband mentions how he and his wife thought they were unable to conceive, and, in a separate scene, a woman makes a comment to the wife that implies the wife had multiple miscarriages that occurred before the events of the miniseries
at the begging of episode 4, the main characters mother starts talking about how Jews can't go to heaven. she's quickly shut up and suffering from dementia but yknow