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I'm curious about this, but would it be possible to get more information on the worst instances of violence, please? (Personally I'd want to skip anything with severed fingers, especially if the severing happens on-screen, and any similar hand trauma, threatened or carried out.)
For sure! I actually compiled a list of every major trigger warning per episode, with timestamps, back when I was more organized in my fandom evangelism attempts, but I think I lost the file. Much regret.
Some notable ones: - The first scene of the first episode involves several people getting murdered via gas suffocation, one of whom is a child. The child's death is implied/offscreen. - About 2/3 the way through the same episode is a torture scene involving eye trauma; it's a couple minutes long and you can fast-forward through it or just look away from the screen, as the important information from it is discussed by characters later. - Someone walks in front of a truck in the opening of S1E2; it's clear what's happening but it's not particularly graphic. - There's an elementary school shooting at the beginning of S1E3. It's semi-onscreen (you can kind of hear what's going on but the camera doesn't follow it). - Near the end of S1E3 a character is blackmailed with the threat of sexual violence towards his wife if he doesn't behave; however, nothing comes of it and the wife never finds out. IIRC there's no other instances of sexual assault in the show besides a brief nonconsensual kiss (involving different characters than these ones). - There are two hand trauma sequences I can remember. The one with the severed fingers is in S1E3 and actually involves a dead body, so it's mostly just gross. You see someone cut off fingers from a corpse and carry them around in a bag for a bit. The other instance is a brief onscreen torture scene near the end of S2E1 that involves fingernail removal (and is supposed to parallel the torture scene in the pilot). - Past and potential future genocide is a major part of the plot.
The frequency and intensity of the violence drops off as the show progresses. For what it's worth, I think there are plot reasons things play out the way they do beyond just shock value (though that's part of it). Cycles of violence and trauma, especially childhood trauma, are A Theme. The show is also generally a riff on dark-n-edgy comic books, so the OTT violence is part of the aesthetic in the same way the overly saturated colours are.
Thanks - that's really detailed and helpful! I think that bracing would be sufficient for me for all of those instances except the onscreen torture scene in S2E1. Do you recall, in that episode, if it's very clear when that's coming up and when it's over? (Otherwise I could possibly get someone to watch it for me and give me timestamps.)
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Some notable ones:
- The first scene of the first episode involves several people getting murdered via gas suffocation, one of whom is a child. The child's death is implied/offscreen.
- About 2/3 the way through the same episode is a torture scene involving eye trauma; it's a couple minutes long and you can fast-forward through it or just look away from the screen, as the important information from it is discussed by characters later.
- Someone walks in front of a truck in the opening of S1E2; it's clear what's happening but it's not particularly graphic.
- There's an elementary school shooting at the beginning of S1E3. It's semi-onscreen (you can kind of hear what's going on but the camera doesn't follow it).
- Near the end of S1E3 a character is blackmailed with the threat of sexual violence towards his wife if he doesn't behave; however, nothing comes of it and the wife never finds out. IIRC there's no other instances of sexual assault in the show besides a brief nonconsensual kiss (involving different characters than these ones).
- There are two hand trauma sequences I can remember. The one with the severed fingers is in S1E3 and actually involves a dead body, so it's mostly just gross. You see someone cut off fingers from a corpse and carry them around in a bag for a bit. The other instance is a brief onscreen torture scene near the end of S2E1 that involves fingernail removal (and is supposed to parallel the torture scene in the pilot).
- Past and potential future genocide is a major part of the plot.
The frequency and intensity of the violence drops off as the show progresses. For what it's worth, I think there are plot reasons things play out the way they do beyond just shock value (though that's part of it). Cycles of violence and trauma, especially childhood trauma, are A Theme. The show is also generally a riff on dark-n-edgy comic books, so the OTT violence is part of the aesthetic in the same way the overly saturated colours are.
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