Prison Break

TV Show • 2005 • Crime  

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Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
This tv show contains 86 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Is there body horror?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Is there misophonia?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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StaySafeFriends
Depends if it's considered technically "stalking in these scenarios, but a crooked FBI agent is on the hunt for some of the main characters, as well as a crooked prison guard, other villains stalk and follow others. The promise on the show involves almost all the characters on run all the time, so they are constantly being searched for by both regular law enforcement, but as well as many villains.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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StaySafeFriends
We see that Michael was abused by his foster family as a child. There is mention that one of the main antagonists is a pedophile and convicted rapist. There is a young prisoner in the jail who is being sexually abused by another inmate. It is shown in flashbacks that a main character was sexually abused by his father.
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Addiction
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youbetterknow
Sarah takes drugs in season 1.

Alex Mahone takes pills in season 2.
He also injects himself drugs in season 3.
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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?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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churrystar
A cat is killed in episode 08 of First Season. Nothing graphic, they show him already dead.

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Are animals abused?
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RachellRutledge
There is a cat that gets killed
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vic
In series 1 episode 14 - there is a rat that is seen being picked up by its tail and you later see it's dead body. You don't see it die.
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Does a cat die?
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RachellRutledge
Season 1, episode 8. Right around the 30 minute mark. There’s prisoners outside of his cell who start talking about it right before you see it.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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StaySafeFriends
It is a somewhat frequent theme, one of the main characters (TBag) is a convicted serial rapist. He is a main character and antagonist throughout all the seasons, although there are no graphic sexual violence scenes, the theme is present very often.

I would strongly suggest that you don't watch this show if that's your trigger <3

SPOILERS
In the first season TBag is seen to be sexually abusing a fellow inmate, who asks Micheal to help him, and later kills himself. Later a new inamte comes in and TBag attempts to Coerce him into sex.This same character survives an attempted rape by another inmate using a knife. Later through flashbacks we see that TBag was sexually abused by his father as a child. In the finale TBag had captured and is seen to attempt to rape a main female character. Another female antagonist shows a character her scars on her thigh, from surviving rape.
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Bodily Harm
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amalia17
in season four one of the main characters has his forearms cut as a form of torture
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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amalia17
in season 4 one of the main characters is stranded on a desert and consumes his friend after accidentally killing him in a fight
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Is someone choked?
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Fe11x
In Season 5 Ja, the Korean Queen Fan, pours gasoline all over the place so two terrorists light themselves up
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StaySafeFriends
A man is crushed in a mineshaft.
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Is there amputation?
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Emily6742
an amputation is shown in the finale of season 1, a main plot point in season 2 centers the amputation and failed reattachment
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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HannahMc
in one of the first episodes, the character seth aka "cherry" kills himself by hanging
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j.cat
A character gets his teeth pulled out by a tool.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Wellhi
In season 1 someone fakes a seizure but you don't know straight away it's fake until he winks at another character
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StaySafeFriends
Yes. A character in season 3 is tortured by electricity in the genitals.
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Anonymous
Hand mutilation yes, pretty bad. Someone get his hand cut off, carries it along in ice for a while, attempts to sew it back on, doesn't work very well and it gets necrotic. Eventually he's cuffed to a radiator and to break free he pulls until the hand fells off again.
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Is someone tortured?
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youbetterknow
Season 3 episode 9 Grechten gets waterboarded around minute 33.
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Gennaro456
In season 2 Haywire killed himself by jumping off a tower.
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j.cat
A character puts a broken light bulb to a mans eye and presses it into him. You hear him scream but i THINK it is off camera.
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Is someone stabbed?
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HannahMc
toes are cut off, hands are cut off. its not too gruesome but there is blood and people clearly in pain
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Children
Does a kid die?
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S1
E12 About half way through the episode you get the news. Nothing is shown.
E16 18 minutes in, teenager is implied hit by vehicle
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LadyMcD
One of the (antagonistic) main characters is a sex offender who (also) pursues predatory relationships with minors. His gaze is represented in the narrative, although the framing is always clear on that it is wrong.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Anonymous
Yes, season 1 ep 6 a guard says it to an inmate
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Drugs/Alcohol
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HannahMc
SPOILER in season 1 finale there is a cliffhanger where you believe sara has died from an overdose of morphine but she hasn't
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Family
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youbetterknow
Two characters are kidnapped in season 3.
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Does a parent die?
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j.cat
A father dies by hanging.
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a family member die?
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there razors?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there mannequins?
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3
Gross
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amalia17
In season 3 one of the inmates wets themselves after being confronted by Lechero.
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Does someone vomit?
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Fifi7
Season 1 episode 4, around 5mins in an inmate sticks his hand down his throat to force himself to v*, nothing is shown but there is clear audio. In season 1 episode 11, inmate is covered in sick around 23mins or 24 and was very visual. In 1×21 sucre runs to toilet Don't think anything is shown but clear audio. It happens after Michael comes in to check he has done his job. Idk what times but any scene with Haywire in season 1 he may be sick especially when Michael is in the pyscho ward with him (they are forced to take pills and at multiple points Haywire is sick.)
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there farting?
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2
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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3
Are there transphobic slurs?
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4
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1
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2
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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2
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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2
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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2
Yes
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Emily6742
Michael gets daily insulin shots through season 1, often shown
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Emily6742
the psych ward of the prison is a main plot point in season 1
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Is there a hospital scene?
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0
Is there menstruation?
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4
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3
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Anonymous
one of the characters daughters has cancer but it is never shown on screen, only mentioned
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Yes
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amalia17
In season 1 main character cuts open the skin on his arm to retrieve something he has hidden there. Not sure if this would be considered self harm, but was extremely triggering and upsetting.
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StaySafeFriends
Yes, one of the main characters in season one is an inmate from the psych ward in the prison. He's been diagnosed with " schizoaffective disorder with bipolar tendencies" He's obviously in prison in the first place - because he killed his parents. Later in the series he shows aggression.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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2
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5
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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2
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5
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youbetterknow
In season 3 a character says that he is claustrophobic and he is having breathing problems.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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4
Is there autism specific abuse?
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4
1
boothisshow
season 1 episode 9 right after the intro someone kills themselves by hanging
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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0
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5
Is there screaming?
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4
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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0
Are there flashing lights or images?
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5
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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0
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3
Is there childbirth?
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6
Are there abortions?
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0
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5
Are there babies or unborn children?
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0
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3
Does someone miscarry?
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1
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4
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0
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4
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JTOHmaster1
No but somewhere in season 3 it mentions a miscarriage
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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7
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0
1
Emily6742
there is a prisoner that crossdresses as the butt of a joke in season one
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Does the black guy die first?
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0
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9
Are there homophobic slurs?
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10
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0
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
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HannahMc
at the start of season 1, one of the main plots is a building race war within the prison, there is a lot of racist/homophobic hate speech during this time, it lessens towards the end of season 1 and isn't as prevalent through out the rest of the show.

examples of this are t-bag (one of the main characters) being in a white supremacist gang, he often refers to black characters as "rugheads", goes on more than one rant about latin people being lazy and refers to another character as "tweener" since he is white but "wants to be black"

there are more examples but if you are sensitive to language like this, i would suggest skipping this show
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youbetterknow
In season 3 a homosexual man gets killed in prison because of this.
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Wellhi
Unsure if this is counted, but people in the prison psych ward are often made fun of and called things like "nutjob" and the psych ward itself is referred to as the "whack shack".
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Are there n-words?
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7
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Race
Is there blackface?
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1
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2
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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3
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1
Religious
Is religion discussed?
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3
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0
Sex
Is there sexual content?
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12
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0
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HannahMc
one main character is harassed by another. given the nickname "pretty", character also makes references to sexually assaulting him many times over the course of the show
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3
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1
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HannahMc
no full nudity but there are shower scenes
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Is there bestiality?
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1
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4
Are there incestuous relationships?
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44 supporters
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6
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2
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Wellhi
This is a rather large plot point discovered in season 2
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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1
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2
Does someone have a chronic illness?
5 supporters
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3
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1
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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1
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2
Is someone terminally ill?
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3
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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3
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1
Are there anti-abortion themes?
19 supporters
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Yes
1
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2
Are there fat suits?
11 supporters
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Yes
2
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1
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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9
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
3 supporters
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8
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1
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StaySafeFriends
Many car chases and car crashes all throughout the series
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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4
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0
Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
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2
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2
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LadyMcD
One of the main characters tries to cross borders by airplane, which consequently crashes.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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6
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1
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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0
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9
Is there blood/gore?
26 supporters
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11
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0
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StaySafeFriends
Yes it's a violent show. Although there is never excessive gore - there is definitely a blood and injuries.
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Does someone drown?
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9
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0
Is there gun violence?
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10
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