New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
This tv show contains 56 potentially triggering events.
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Very much so. One of the main characters was violently abused as a child and during the series he defends multiple children from abusive parents while in public and in private
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Beheaded dead cat under the floorboards. It is NOT skeletal and is only partially decomposed, the previous comment is mistaken. It is very clearly a dead tabby.
There are a few cases of a cat dying during the season. The last episode especially features the antagonist putting a live cat in a bag and violently smashing it against a wall.
It is not outright stated, but rather implied that multiple characters have been assaulted. One of them is a main character. He seems to have no memory of the event because his alcohol was drugged, but it is heavily implied he was assaulted after he lost consciousness
The mental institution scene can be very disturbing, even for people that are normally fine with those scenes. There is a lot of screaming and crying, as well as people begging one main character for help while they are restrained in a chair. Feel free to skip this scene
Though not explicitly mentioned, a lot of the victims at the centre of these cases are either implied to be LGBT or at least lgbt-adjacent, specifically transgender or gender non-conforming individuals. If you are sensitive to such themes, I would avoid this series.
There are multiple instances of sex scenes. Some consensual and other non-consensual. A multitude of these take place within brothels and some between adults and underage children/teenagers. It is a series heavy with sexual scenes.
A dog fight happens in episode two of season two around the 28 minute mark.