An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
This tv show contains 2 potentially triggering events.
Season 3, episode 7. He disappears and when they find him, he's unwell. They don't show him after that, but it's said that he had to be put down because of a tumor.
Jimmy accidentally kills an entire pond of koi fish by giving them the wrong kind of water. We see the dead fish from a distance. Later his family makes him eat the cooked fish as punishment. Nina sits on a guinea pig, but it's ok.
Not as violence/abuse, no. But there is a lot of childbirth, as the main character is an Obstetrician, so there is talk of injury and damage to women from giving birth.
Quite a lot of birth/surgical related blood, and a few cuts and wounds throughout the show. In the later seasons some slightly graphic Cesarean Sections are shown, but it's always obvious when they're going to show surgery scenes, and the show in general is not gory.
Some use of the word "retarded" Not directed at someone with mental disabilities, although it is said once about Martin Clegg, and he is someone who could be perceived as being on the spectrum, but this fact is never stated or indicated.
Nina's ex-husband has a fixation with explosives, and blows up the vehicle of someone she's interested in because he's jealous. He is shown in a psychiatric rehab later. He doesn't physically harm anyone.
Lots of talking with mouths full, surgical squishy noises, alarms, phones, sirens, heart beating, medical equipment, etc. Nina has anxiety so a lot of sounds are amplified to demonstrate how she's feeling.
Geraldine (the mother) is very manipulative and drugs and guilts her adult children and makes them feel they are in the wrong frequently. Other characters gaslight, but she's by far the worst.
Nina hallucinates her sister coming into places she's at and firing a machine gun at her, there's no impact, and the scenes are brief, but there are a few of them and they're surprising.
Some babies struggle to breathe after birth, including in the first episode. Nina has frequent panic attacks that make her hyperventilate, including the first episode as well.
Twice during the show one of the main character's patients dies during labor, and it has a deep effect on her. Season 1, episode 8, and Season 5, episode 9. In Season 6, episode 5, a woman's heart stops during a c-section, but she is successfully revived.
Someone gets stuck in an elevator. They are not claustrophobic, and are rescued successfully. There are also many normal scenes in elevators, and Nina occasionally hides in closets and behind doors.
A few small explosions, but not nuclear. The real explosions are caused by Nina's ex-husband in the first few episodes. No one is hurt, but the explosions are surprising. There are also a few times where Nina imagines explosions. Her vivid imagination is a recurring theme of the show.
Nina's ex-husband traps her in the hospital elevator with the intention to talk to her and convince her to get back together with him. He scares her, but doesn't physically harm her. She yells that she's been kidnapped to attract help, and is successfully rescued.
There's a song in the first episode where a woman says "you're a f*g". Season 2 episode 5, a gay man talks about how his brother was the "son" and he was the "f*ggot son" because of their father's homophobia
Not physically depicted, but characters are shown to either be emotionally abused, or are described as covered in bruises. It's the main subject of at least one episode.
One character could possibly be perceived as being on the spectrum, though he's never stated as being so, and he is frequently teased or has comments made about him in a negative way. I wouldn't say this is a definite yes or no.
First time is season 2 episode 7, but it does happen again in other episodes. Season 7 episode 8 has a stillbirth. SPOILERS: ----Jimmy's baby has a rough start but survives. NO main character babies/children die, other than a miscarriage in the early seasons. Season 6 Episode 10, there's a very difficult home birth and the baby is in distress, but survives.
There aren't ghosts, but after the death of a main character, Nina frequently envisions him alive and well. This show has no supernatural elements, Nina just has a vivid imagination.