A full list of content warnings is provided here for ease of reference. Warnings for individual episodes can also be found in the show notes and in the transcripts.
Season 1[]
1 | Angler Fish | Abduction, unsettling strangers, uncanny valley, alcohol, smoking, minor emetophobia. |
2 | Do Not Open | Compulsion, coffins, money, altered mental states, frequent drug mentions, drug use, undead, sleep disorders. |
3 | Across the Street | Unreality, gaslighting, stalking, being watched, imposters, someone being replaced and only you notice, smoking, paranoia-inducing, head injury, surveillance, identity theft, body horror, death, obsessions (watching people). |
4 | Page Turner | Money, lightning, electrocution, heights, vertigo, body horror (skin mutilation), human remains, animal bones, injury (twisted ankle, scars), book burning. Mentions of: food, a child murdering their mother. |
5 | Thrown Away | Dolls, teeth, unsanitary, body horror, privacy invasion, mental instability, emetophobia, mild car accident, mild alcohol mention, injury (twisted ankle), police, mild stalking, implied violence/murder. |
6 | Squirm | Unreality, muggings, attacked in the street, sexual content (non-explicit), worms, gore (people exploding), body horror, scratching, worm infestations in human bodies, things under skin, physical violence, paranoia, fire, alcohol use, emetophobia, mention of drug use. |
7 | The Piper | War, battle, injuries, blood, gun violence, knife violence, bomb violence, psychological trauma, injury (burns), flamethrowers. |
8 | Burned Out | Unreality, death of a father, mental illness (schizophrenia), fire, unsanitary, food, injury (burns), head trauma, immolation, gore, graphic suicide by self-harm, paranoia-inducing, spiders. |
9 | A Father's Love | Child harm, child neglect, disappearance of parent, death of parent, religious violence, serial killer, gore, cults, being chased, darkness, heartbeat sound. |
10 | Vampire Killer | Physical violence, child death, death of a sibling, immolation, heroin/alcohol abuse, gore, cancer, spousal abuse, child abuse, knife violence, blood, hemophobia, survivor's guilt, fire, distended stomach. |
11 | Dreamer | Death, foreseeing death (not one's own), unreality, mental instability, sleep disorders, body horror, suicide, heart disease, strokes, death of a father. |
12 | First Aid | Unreality, immolation, burn injuries, scopophobia, medical setting, knife violence, brain tumour, murder. |
13 | Alone | Rejection, emotional abuse, isolation, death of a loved one, car crashes, graveyard, getting lost. |
14 | Piecemeal | Self-harm, body horror, gore, cannibalism, derogatory language towards addicts, finger trauma, descriptive murder, knife violence, tooth loss. |
15 | Lost John's Cave | Claustrophobia, drowning, death of a sibling, unhealthy family dynamics, caves, survivor's guilt, darkness, getting lost, unintelligible spooky voice (post statement). |
16 | Arachnophobia | Spiders, death, suffocation, being followed, paranoia-inducing, bugs going into people's mouths. |
17 | The Boneturner's Tale | Body horror, bone removal, harm to animals (pet rat), blood, rat mention, death. |
18 | The Man Upstairs | Unsanitary (meat), decay, strangers, trypophobia, emetophobia. |
19 | Confession I | Religious violence, cannibalism, possession, hallucinations, loss of faith, seizures, head trauma. |
20 | Desecrated Host II | Religious violence, cannibalism, possession, hallucinations, emetophobia, loss of touch with reality. |
21 | Freefall | Agoraphobia, acrophobia, falling, death of one's adult child, survivor's guilt, jumpscare [17:55 (post-statement section), 16:40 on YouTube, 17:24 on Spotify]. |
22 | Colony | Being trapped, parasites, worms, mention of spiders, trypophobia, scratching, body horror, infestation of worms in a human body. |
23 | Schwartzwald | Claustrophobia, eye horror, graveyard, figures/shadows in a forest. |
24 | Strange Music | Physical violence, dolls, clowns, mild gore, unhealthy romantic relationships. |
25 | Growing Dark | Cults, helplessness, darkness, people you know acting strangely, grabbing hands, cemeteries, religion, church. |
26 | A Distortion | Physical violence, worms, infestation in human bodies, body horror, trypophobia, uncanny valley. |
27 | A Sturdy Lock | Death of a loved one, home intrusion, paranoia-inducing, blood (from unknown/supernatural source), police, ignorant law enforcement, threats of elder abuse. |
28 | Skintight | Skinning, physical violence, people being uncanny, smoking, watching someone without their knowledge. |
29 | Cheating Death | War + warlike injuries, gun violence, mention of bomb violence, gore, self-harm, existential horror, apeirophobia |
30 | Killing Floor | Animal death (cow, sheep, pig), referenced animal abuse, self-harm, physical violence, gore, surreal, people being slaughtered like animals, slaughterhouses. |
31 | First Hunt | Gun violence + hunting (for sport), talk of guns in an admirable light, being chased, animal harm/death, war, murder, gore, mild agoraphobia + otherwise feelings of helplessness. |
32 | Hive | Insects (ants, hornets), infestations, worms, spiders, mild gore, body horror, unreality, trypophobia, dermatillomania, altered mental state, mental instability, fatphobia. |
33 | Boatswain's Call | Isolation, thalassophobia, mentioned sexism, forced silence. |
34 | Anatomy Class | Body horror, blood, gore, uncanny, teeth, mentioned suicide. |
35 | Old Passages | Claustrophobia, animal bones, jumpscare [23:11, 22:16 on Spotify], worms (inc SFX). |
36 | Taken Ill | Disease, physical violence, elder abuse, death + existentialism, insects (flies), dermatillomania, graphic descriptions of illness. |
37 | Burnt Offering | Immolation, spousal death, fear that your child may die, self-harm, animal death (wild animals), suicide. |
38 | Lost and Found | Death, spouse death, believing you are going insane, having others doubt your memory/fear of gaslighting, paranoia-inducing, loud screaming (loud shout of "RUN!" at the very end of the episode), jumpscares from 17:00 onwards. |
39 | Infestation | Parasites, gore, physical violence, body horror, trypophobia, uncanny, jumpscares [02:07s, 02:11, 02:16, 06:40, 18:25], loud screaming (pained shouting by John at the beginning of the episode, long frightened scream by Sasha near the end), alarm sounds, high-pitched audio interference. |
40 | Human Remains | Parasites, gore, physical violence, body horror, trypophobia, gun violence (referenced). |
Season 2[]
41 | Too Deep | Claustrophobia, surreal, dead worms, prison. |
42 | Grifter's Bone | Physical violence, gore, self-harm, suicide, altered mental state, injury (ear trauma), blood, scars, memory loss, murder. |
43 | Section 31 | Immolation, (attempted) suicide, police. Mentions of: spiders. |
44 | Tightrope | Physical violence, body horror, ableism, unreality, discussion of heights/falling, clowns. |
45 | Blood Bag | Unsanitary, insects (mosquitos), illnesses, hemophobia, blood, death by bugs. Mentions of: syringes. |
46 | Literary Heights | Lightning, death, acrophobia, suicide, high-pitched audio interference. Mentions of: spiders. |
47 | The New Door | Surreal, abduction, physical violence, unreality, mazes, loud shout [16:46 on YouTube], high-pitched audio interference. |
48 | Lost in the Crowd | Agoraphobia, abduction, thalassophobia, isolation, people being unsettling. |
49 | The Butcher's Window | Body horror, torture, bone removal, death and dying, frequent drug mentions, mentioned drug use from a major character, alcohol abuse. |
50 | Foundations | Surreal, claustrophobia, live burial. |
51 | High Pressure | Deep-sea exploration, suffocation, surreal, drowning, high-pitched audio interference, thalassophobia. |
52 | Exceptional Risk | Prison, serial killer mention, darkness, violence, death, suicide mention, law enforcement brutality (abuse of inmates by prison guards). |
53 | Crusader | War (bombs, gun tanks, fellow soldiers dying), body horror, corpses, eye horror. |
54 | Still Life | Unsanitary, dead animals, taxidermy, people being uncanny, inanimate objects moving. |
55 | Pest Control | Unsanitary, insects (ants, mention of wasps, bedbugs, and cockroaches), strangulation, self-immolation, trypophobia, fire, burning. |
56 | Children of the Night | Death, violence, drug use, poverty, people made of spiders, body horror, injection mention, amputation of toes, cancer, jumpscare (bang) [20:18 on YouTube (post-statement section)], angry yelling. |
57 | Personal Space | Isolation, solitary confinement, space exploration, darkness, paranoia, starvation, suicide, existential crisis. |
58 | Trail Rations | Cannibalism, spousal death, knife violence, freezing to death, people being uncanny, undead/dead bodies coming to life. |
59 | Recluse | Past child abuse, spiders, mind control, cannibalism, death, fire. |
60 | Observer Effect | Paranoia, being watched, death of a sibling, alcohol mention, fear of going insane, cancer mention. |
61 | Hard Shoulder | Altered mental states, darkness, people being uncanny, police brutality. |
62 | First Edition | Murder, syringe violence, skinning, mind control, mention of suicide. |
63 | The End of the Tunnel | Darkness, decapitation, paranoia-inducing, being hunted by invisible creatures, invisible danger, shadows, claustrophobia. |
64 | Burial Rites | Body horror, undead, suicide attempt. |
65 | Binary | Transhumanism, compulsive self-mutilation, mouth harm, body horror, eating non-food items, existential horror, cancer mention, supernatural technology. |
66 | Held in Customs | Claustrophobia, drug mention, darkness, being trapped, splinters. |
67 | Burning Desire | Fire, burn injury, mutilation, disfigurement. Mentions of: spiders. |
68 | The Tale of a Field Hospital | Disease, war, open wounds, unsanitary, illness, undead, mention of insects (flies), echoing audio. |
69 | Thought for the Day | Spiders, emetophobia, madness, unethical medical experimentation, body horror, altered mental states, suffocation, self-strangulation (compelled), ableism, physical violence, mild gore, mention of psychological break. Mentions of: racism. |
70 | Book of the Dead | Wounds, mild gore, physical violence, body horror, murder, immolation, death, paranoia-inducing, existential, premonitions of death. |
71 | Underground | Claustrophobia, body horror, entrapment. |
72 | Takeaway | Cannibalism, physical violence, mutilation, restraints, serial killer, racism/anti-Chinese racism, finger trauma. Mentions of: religious violence, infanticide. |
73 | Police Lights | Gun violence, physical violence, wounds, murder, police, darkness, cults. |
74 | Fatigue | Surreal, teeth, slowly worsening mental state, sleep disorder, blood (nosebleed), mention of nausea. |
75 | A Long Way Down | Acrophobia, injuries (broken arm), survivor's guilt, death of a sibling, unhealthy sibling relationships. Mentions of: drugs (cannabis). |
76 | The Smell of Blood | Physical violence, gore, torture, imposters. |
77 | The Kind Mother | Imposters, mimics, emotional abuse from a parent, people being replaced and only you notice, paranoia, mentioned unhealthy romantic relationships/cheating. |
78 | Distant Cousin | Imposters, mimics, paranoia, high-pitched audio interference, the sound of an axe hitting wood. |
79 | Hide and Seek | Imposters, mimics, being chased, loud screaming, jumpscares [03:17 on YouTube], high-pitched audio interference, distorted voices. |
80 | The Librarian | Physical violence, murder, smoking (major character), mentions of insects (ants), mild audio gore. |
Season 3[]
81 | A Guest For Mr. Spider | Gore, physical violence, arachnophobia, compulsion, vague descriptions of past bullying, child death. |
82 | The Eyewitnesses | Physical violence, murder, gaslighting, blackmailing, threatened police brutality. |
83 | Drawing A Blank | Dolls, body horror (skin), physical violence, murder. Mentions of: drugs. |
84 | Possessive | Unsanitary (trash), rotten food, imposters, worms, hoarding. Mentions of: cancer. |
85 | Upon the Stair | Parent death, unreality, depersonalisation. |
86 | Tucked In | Body horror, gore, unsanitary (unknown substances), darkness (and fear thereof), paranoia-inducing. |
87 | The Uncanny Valley | Body horror, gore, unsanitary (sewage, meat), injuries (burns), dolls (moving mannequins). |
88 | Dig | Altered mental states, suffocation/drowning, broken fingernails. |
89 | Twice as Bright | Immolation, injuries (burns), body horror, self-harm, loud screaming [23:50, 23:21 on YouTube], drug use (recurring character). |
90 | Body Builder | Body horror, body dysmorphia, bad self image, eating disorder (food restriction), animal death (sheep), sexism, steroid use. |
91 | The Coming Storm | Nausea, physical violence, choking, police brutality, lightning, electrocution, death, loud gunshot noise at 15:28 on Acast, 15:27 on Spotify], smoking (major character), dissonant sounds. |
92 | Nothing Beside Remains | Manipulation, police brutality. |
93 | Contaminant | Parasites/mould, unsanitary, spousal death, compulsive cleaning, manipulation/compulsion. |
94 | Dead Woman Walking | Altered mental states, undead, death/existentialism. |
95 | Absent Without Leave | Death, body horror, gun violence, physical violence, war (discussion of WW2, fascism, Nazis), mention of cannibalism, suicide, animal death (rats). |
96 | Return to Sender | Body horror, imposters, loud gunshot noise [17:12 on YouTube, 17:39 on Spotify]. |
97 | We All Ignore the Pit | Abduction, live burial, altered mental states, violence, mannequins. |
98 | Lights Out | Self-harm, blindness, ableism, emotional abuse from a parent, eye horror. |
99 | Dust to Dust | Suffocation, live burial, animal death (livestock, particularly cattle). |
100 | I Guess You Had To Be There | Spiders, mental instability, isolation, audio distortion [22:17 on YouTube], fire, people on fire, panic attack. |
100.1 | Deadlands Part 1 | Gun violence, gambling, explosive violence. |
100.2 | Deadlands Part 2 | Murder, gun violence, skinning, possession, gun violence, blunt object violence, body horror. |
100.3 | Lucid | Altered reality, sleep disorders, body horror. |
100.4 | Paint | Cursed objects, hospital suspense, guilt. |
100.5 | Assistants Round Table | Gruesome horror prop discussion. |
101 | Another Twist | Clowns, body horror (skinning, distortion), emotional manipulation, high-pitched interference, assisted suicide, loud scream [20:52 on iTunes and Spotify] |
102 | Nesting Instinct | Attempted murder, depression, insects (beetles), infestation in humans, body horror, unsanitary, mind control, nail horror. Mentions of: cancer. |
103 | Cruelty Free | Animal death (pig), animal cannibalism, language, unsanitary, mind control, autocannibalism. |
104 | Sneak Preview | Clowns, body horror (skinning), physical violence, death of a loved one. |
105 | Total War | Warfare, drowning, cannibalism, undead, drug use, mass suicide. |
106 | A Matter Of Perspective | Isolation, smoking, body horror (bleeding ears), deep space, discussion of death, on-screen psychological and emotional abuse/manipulation/torture. |
107 | Third Degree | Being followed, live burial, death, seizure disorder, burning alive, heart attack, kidnapping, gun violence [23:20], axe violence, police, traffic stop. Mentions of: cancer. |
108 | Monologue | Masks, being followed, surreal, audio interference [16:05]. |
109 | Nightfall | Kidnapping, cancer, body horror, knife violence, strangulation, blood, sadism. |
110 | Creature Feature | Spiders, body horror, abuse in the workplace, death. Mentions of: transphobia (no misgendering). |
111 | Family Business | Child abuse, child neglect, cults, body horror (skinning), self-mutilation (implied), spousal abuse, undead, smoking (major character, recurring character). |
112 | Thrill of the Chase | Knife violence, direct violence, blood, body horror, sadism, death. |
113 | Breathing Room | Suffocation, death, discussion of death, blood, poisoning, undead, sharp object, eye injury, lobotomy, violence. |
114 | Cracked Foundation | Spiders, mental instability, swearing, body horror. |
115 | Taking Stock | Blood, cannibalism, self-harm, death. |
116 | The Show Must Go On | Blood, automatons (mannequins), eye horror, knife violence, general violence, body horror, mental instability, death and dying. |
117 | Testament | Gun violence, explosive violence, spiders, body horror, death and dying. |
118 | The Masquerade | Fire/burning, emotional manipulation/cruelty, non-consensual mind-reading, clowns, mannequins, body horror, gunshot, jumpscare [11:18], care of a sick parent. |
119 | Stranger and Stranger | Clowns, mannequins, emotional manipulation, audio distortion/interference, altered mental state, death, gore, injury (getting axed), smoking, explosion, changes in non-diegetic material (intro music), death (suicide, main character). |
120 | Eye Contact | Surreal, altered mental state (coma), police brutality.
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Season 4[]
121 | Far Away | Mortality, undead, violent death (reported), tendrils, constriction, thalassophobia. |
122 | Zombie | Paranoia, psychological zombies, mild ableism, solipsism, mentioned animal death (pet fish), eye horror. |
123 | Web Development | Injury (surgery scars), arachnophobia, eye horror. |
124 | Left Hanging | Heights/falling (cable car rides), acrophobia, cancer, death, parent death. |
125 | Civilian Casualties | Body horror, blood, being chased, death, self-harm, mutilation, police, home surgery, injections, finger trauma, non-consentual drugging, screaming/yelling [22:53]. |
126 | Sculptor's Tool | Uncanny, body horror, unreality, people you know being replaced. |
127 | Remains to be Seen | Death, alcohol use, food mention, corpses, autopsy, body horror + scopophobia. |
128 | Heavy Goods | Body horror, dismemberment, cannibalism, impaling, death of a loved one, human remains, alcoholism, spiders, attempted suicide, building fire, audio interference. |
129 | Submerged | Drowning, natural disaster (flood), isolation, grief, emotional trauma, human remains, thalassophobia, poverty. |
130 | Meat | Body horror, dismembered human remains, dismembered animal remains, emotional trauma, death and dying, sleep disorders, anti-Asian racism. |
131 | Flesh | Self-harm, body horror, dismemberment, emotional trauma, knife violence, removal of bones, sounds of pain, on-screen finger trauma (inc SFX). |
132 | Entombed | Claustrophobia, emotional trauma, suffocation, crushing, dissociation, self-endangering behaviour, self-hatred. |
133 | Dead Horse | Body horror, gun violence, time distortion, spatial disorientation, emotional trauma, death and dying, racism. |
134 | Time of Revelation | Human extinction, death and corpses, environmental disaster, existentialism, emotional manipulation. |
135 | Dark Matter | Darkness, kidnapping and imprisonment, cults, manipulation, claustrophobia. |
136 | The Puppeteer | Degenerative illness, puppets, manipulation, mental illness, body horror, smoking, suicidal ideation. |
137 | Nemesis | War, torture experiences, extreme violence, POW (prisoner of war) experiences. |
138 | Architecture of Fear | Paranoia, being watched, body horror, eye horror, death. |
139 | Chosen | Extreme violence, body horror, ritual acts and trauma, childbirth, burning alive, assisted suicide. |
140 | The Movement of the Heavens | Murder, darkness, ritual acts. Mentions of: drugs, cancer. |
141 | Doomed Voyage | Coercion, explosions, lightning. |
142 | Scrutiny | Claustrophobia, coercion, stalking. |
143 | Heart of Darkness | Gunshots, human sacrifice, coercion, cults. |
144 | Decrypted | Conspiracy theories, unhealthy relationship between parent and child, poverty, environmental disaster. |
145 | Infectious Doubts | Elder abuse, supernatural torture, cults. |
146 | Threshold | Adverse mental health discussion, hallucinations, underage drinking. Mentions of: drugs. |
147 | Weaver | Arachnophobia, trypophobia, discussion of the existence of free will, deliberately confusing statement, drug use, syringe mention, self-harm. |
148 | Extended Surveillance | Eye trauma, physical violence, scopophobia. |
149 | Concrete Jungle | Environmental disaster, minor body horror, getting lost. |
150 | Cul-De-Sac | Death, blood, isolation, surreal, human remains, self-harm. |
151 | Big Picture | Threats of violence, falling, mention of mass drowning. |
152 | A Gravedigger's Envy | Unreliable narrator, live burial, death/suicide contemplation, injury, graveyard, romanticisation of death. |
153 | Love Bombing | Cults, emotional manipulation, body horror, unsanitary. |
154 | Bloody Mary | Death (stabbing), domestic/spousal abuse, injury, self-mutilation, ableism (blindness). |
155 | Cost of Living | Self-harm, infanticide, murder, near-death experience, eye gouging, seizure disorder, eugenicist rhetoric, ableism, blindness. |
156 | Reflection | Cannibalism, fairground accidents, starvation, warped body image, eating disorder-like thought pattern. |
157 | Rotten Core | Epidemic/mass infection, extreme body horror, emotional trauma, physical threats, isolation, syringe violence. |
158 | Panopticon | Loud noises (including rock grinding)/static, violence (gun/monstrous), eye horror, extended gunfire, isolation, murder/death/loss. |
159 | The Last | Emotional manipulation, sensory abuse (static), isolation, depression, mention of starvation, unhealthy family dynamic, abusive parents, parental neglect, disappearance, jumpscare [23:05], loud screaming, violent on-screen death. |
160 | The Eye Opens | Apocalypses, eye horror, unreality, compulsion, mentioned animal death, shouting, jumpscare [25:55]. |
Season 5 []
Trailer | Unreality, major character with depression/deteriorated mental state, insects (snake sound effects, unknown species). Mentions of: food. | |
161 | Dwelling | Isolation, apocalypses, unreality, emotional self-destruction (main character). Mentions of: food, not needing to eat to survive. |
162 | A Cosy Cabin | Isolation, quarantine, post-apocalypse, unreality, emotional self-destruction (main character), body horror, suffocation. Mentions of: not needing to eat to survive, food. |
163 | In The Trenches | Warfare, gunfire, explosions, loud noises, xenophobia (including antisemitic caricatures), medical trauma, graphic body horror (including trauma to eyes, tooth trauma), chemical warfare, medical malpractice, unreality, claustrophobia in a crowd, mention of needles, death by moving vehicle, being trapped, unsanitary, hunger/starvation, minor emetophobia, burning, cannibalism, jumpscare [04:07 on Spotify]. |
164 | The Sick Village | Plague, graphic descriptions of rot/putrefaction, pandemic, quarantine, fungus and spores, xenophobia/racism, bigotry/mob justice, maggots and flying insects (inc SFX), dogs (inc SFX), self-harm, self-mutilation, human sacrifice, immolation and smoke, skin mutilation, body horror, imprisonment/restraint, nationalism, unsanitary. |
165 | Revolutions | Loud/discordant SFX (circus music, quiet screams throughout, growling, audio distortion, glitching sounds, loud static squealing towards the end), mass pain, character death, major body horror, impostors, dissociation, skinning, hunting/being hunted, unreality, spatial distortion, use of the second person voice, emetophobia (minor), entrapment, minor animal harm, comparison of a person to food. |
166 | The Worms | Survivor's guilt, body horror, screams, claustrophobia, reported violence, dehumanisation, anxiety, suffocation, worms (inc SFX), explicit language, burial, entrapment, depression, self-blame, murder, death, scopophobia (discussed), revenge, determinism, insomnia, hunger, time distortion, themes of oppression, distorted audio, self-doubt, cannibalism. |
167 | Curiosity | Manipulation, reported violence, immolation/death by fire, invasion of privacy, telepathy, fainting, mention of war-related trauma. Mentions of: unreality, revenge. |
168 | Roots | Death, hypochondria/mysophobia, heart attack, mortality, cancer, convulsions, stabbing, falling, perceived medical neglect, smoking. |
169 | Fire Escape | Landlord neglect and tenant abuse, on-screen death of a parent, health and safety violations, bedbugs/infestation, domestic toxicity (mentions), coughing/smoke inhalation (inc SFX), character death, burning, house fire, emotional distress, loud/sudden noises, death. |
170 | Recollection | Isolation, depression, anxiety, depersonalisation and self-disorder, self-hatred, financial distress, elderly neglect, emotional/caregiver abuse (mentioned), neurological impairment/mental deterioration, instances of memory loss, funerals (mentioned), perceived abandonment, persistent droning (SFX), unreality. |
171 | The Gardener | Major/graphic body horror, Character death, vocalised suffering and screams/pain (SFX), dysmorphia, anorexia, toxic beauty standards, unhealthy bodybuilding, plastic surgery addiction, body modification, mortality/existential dread, physical disorders/chronic illness, paralysis, self-harm/suicidal ideation, loud noises, noises descriptive of bodily harm. |
172 | Strung Out | Emotional manipulation and abuse (including familial), body horror and wounding, supernatural manipulation, explicit language, addiction (including smoking and drinking), substance abuse (including implied opiate abuse), spiders (inc SFX), implied transphobia, humiliation, schadenfreude and forced laughter, maladaptive coping mechanisms and relapse, abuse of non-binary person, inability to speak, victim blaming, regret, loss of control of one's body, mass suffering, doubt of one's autonomy, paranoia. |
173 | Night Night | Child harm, children in peril, screams (inc SFX), bullying, emotional abuse/neglect, darkness, isolation/helplessness, fear of graphic bodily harm (including cannibalism), perceived parental negligence, police mention, paranoia. |
174 | The Great Beast | Insignificance/diminution, arguments, body horror, falling, dissociative amnesia, SFX of deep impacts/destruction/“pressure wave” distortion. |
175 | Epoch | Body horror (inc animals), description of human remains, self-mutilation, futility/inconsequence, environmental disaster/eco-horror, pollution, water insecurity, existential and theological dread, unpleasant SFX (insects, squelching, sirens). |
176 | Blood Ties | Explicit language, misogynistic language, hostage situation, victimisation/scapegoating, evisceration, blades, character death, SFX for gunshot, evisceration, panicked breathing. |
177 | Wonderland | Arguments, relationship conflict, second-person point-of-view statement, hospitals/mental institutions, mental illness, gaslighting, mental health abuse, medical/therapeutic malpractice, victim blaming, diminution/belittling language, name invalidation, involuntary commitment, medication (including involuntary medication), suicidal ideation (implied), psychosis/unreality, paranoia, explicit language, threats, body horror, avoidance of facts, (SFX: screaming, high pitched tones, discordant music, medication (sounds of taking pills), violence), face mutilation, peeling of skin. Mentions of: death, police brutality, gore. |
178 | The Processing Line | Dehumanisation, helplessness/existential dread, devaluation of human life, reduction of people based on 'usefulness', futility/inconsequence, body horror and torture, body image issues, medical horror, paralysis, arguments, police brutality (discussion of), claustrophobia, explicit language. Mentions of: enclosed spaces, needles/sharp objects, substance abuse, head trauma. SFX: persistent droning, high pitched tones, repetitive mechanical noises, sudden cracking sound, meat processing, insects. |
179 | Accomplice | Prison and police brutality, fire and burning (inc SFX), trauma, human remains (inc blood), body horror, graphic animal attack (inc SFX), direct/gun violence (inc SFX), arguments, character death, grief, explicit language. Mentions of: child abuse, substance abuse, murder, kidnapping. |
180 | Moving On | Second-person perspective, death and mortality, violence (inc SFX), undead (zombies), religious abuse, child abuse (descriptions of). Mentions of: knives, gaslighting. SFX: persistent droning. |
181 | Ignorance | Dissociation, memory loss/mental deterioration, schadenfreude/vicarious embarrassment, suicide, alcohol, excessive drinking. |
182 | Wellbeing | Hospitals, surgery (inc SFX), extreme medical malpractice, involuntary commitment and treatment, body horror, torture, character death, suicide (inc assisted)/suicidal ideation. Mentions of: mental deterioration, chronic pain, needles, stillbirth imagery, strokes, rot. SFX: screaming, high-pitched sounds, blades, drilling. |
183 | Monument | Altered reality/spatial disorientation, futility/inconsequence, self-injury, body horror and wounding, physical violence/graphic injury (inc SFX). Mentions of: blood, murder, falling, isolation. |
184 | Like Ants | Insects and infestation (inc SFX), claustrophobia, anxiety/panic/pleading, pain (inc SFX), trypophobia, non-consensual supernatural actions. Mentions: blood, body horror, crushing, loss, futility/inconsequence. |
185 | Locked In | Prison (inc SFX), dehumanisation, wrongful imprisonment and victimisation, police brutality, uncertain memory and distorted time, abuse of power, physical violence, bullying, isolation, pleading, explicit language. |
186 | Quiet | Depression and sadness, isolation, emotional manipulation, guilt and self-blame. Mentions of: mild body horror, emotional abuse, parental death, dysfunctional/toxic relationships (inc family), grief, ableism, discussion of suffering, death, murder and potential suicide. |
187 | Checking Out | Sudden, loud SFX, emotional manipulation, bullying/taunting, gaslighting, disorientation (spatial and temporal), pleading, arguing, second-person POV, perceived child neglect (inc SFX), character death. |
188 | Centre of Attention | Scopophobia, loss of privacy, judgement and shaming, schadenfreude, bystander apathy, therapeutic malpractice, body horror (inc SFX), eye trauma. Mentions of: grief/loss (discussion), gaslighting, loss of identity, insomnia, asthma attacks. |
189 | Peers | Arguments, scopophobia, mass suffering, poverty and food insufficiency, guilt, political expediency. Mentions of: blood, self-inflicted wounds, physical violence, cults. coughing, yelling. |
Act III Trailer | Cults. Mentions of: apocalypse, scopophobia. | |
190 | Scavengers | Cults, self-recrimination, emotional manipulation. Mentions of: therapy, innuendo, paranoia and anxiety, instances of memory loss, mild vicarious embarrassment, mild language, ableism, death, mass suffering, physical violence, murder, apocalypse. |
191 | What We Lose | Cults, arguments, paranoia and anxiety. Discussions of: death and sacrifice. Mentions of: instances of memory loss/mental deterioration, scopophobia, self-hatred, mild language, murder, food. |
192 | An Appointment | Compulsions (supernatural), emotional manipulation and gaslighting, mental disorientation, paranoia and self-doubt. Mentions of: scopophobia, worms (inc SFX), blackmail, gun violence, isolation, mild language, mass suffering, self-recrimination. SFX: screams, discordant static. |
193 | A Stern Look | Paranoia and anxiety, emotional manipulation and gaslighting, compulsions (supernatural), spiders and arachnophobia, body horror and eye trauma, drug use (marijuana). Mentions of: death, apocalypse and mass suffering, instances of memory loss and identity crisis, blood, physical violence, human remains, classism, deceased parent, scopophobia, parental disapproval. SFX: discordant static and chanting, flies, retching. |
194 | Parting | Arguments, body horror (inc flesh and gore SFX), self-inflicted wounds and body modification (inc SFX), explicit language, panic and emotional distress. Mentions of: alcohol, knives, death, funerals, mass suffering, suicidal ideation, emotional abuse, second-person POV, scopophobia, breathing difficulties SFX, physical violence, gaslighting, tumours/cancer. |
195 | Adrift | Second-person POV, thalassophobia and drowning, suicidal ideation, mental disorientation (inc vertigo), futility/inconsequence. Mentions of: loss of time, scopophobia, cults, death, isolation, police, spiders, injury, nausea, mass suffering. SFX: extensive water sounds, coughing, crying. |
196 | This Old House | Manipulation, altered reality, spiders, heights/vertigo (inc SFX). Mentions of: death, blackmail, war, knives, human remains, paranoia, body horror, live burial, children in peril, arson. SFX: harsh static, insects. |
197 | Connected | Heights and vertigo (inc SFX), spiders (inc SFX), manipulation, body horror (inc SFX), threats, explicit language. Discussions of: altered reality, mass suffering, arson. Mentions: mental disorientation, kidnapping, death and murder, apocalypse, paranoia. SFX: Insects, high-pitched sounds, overlapping voices. |
198 | Precipice | Heights/vertigo (inc SFX), falling, panic (inc breathing SFX), injury/pain (inc SFX), explicit language. Discussions of: emotional manipulation. Mentions of: arguments, death, self-hatred, lack of self-preservation, paranoia, pleading, kidnapping, alcohol. SFX: wind, creaking metal, screaming and suffering. |
199 | Seeing it Through | Arguments, guilt and self-recrimination, smoking, strong language. Discussions of: altered reality, death and self-sacrifice, mass suffering and mass death. Mentions of: violence and murder, mental deterioration, manipulation, trauma, explosions. SFX: crying. |
200 | Last Words | Character death, fire and explosions (inc SFX), vocalised suffering, building collapse, physical violence (inc SFX), pleading, arguments and crying, explicit language. Discussions of: death (inc mass death), mass suffering, existential dread. Mentions of: war, suicide, blood, alternative realities, blades. SFX: distorted static and voices, high frequencies, rumbling, continued clicking and thudding. |
MAG Roundtable - Making of Season 5 | Spoilers up to and including Episode 200. Explicit language. Discussion of: apocalypse and hellscapes, COVID-19 pandemic. Mentions of: anxiety and stress, hospitals, falling, fictional death, prisons. | |
MAG Retrospective - Crew Q&A | Spoilers up to and including Episode 200. Memory loss and loss of identity, drowning, unreality. Discussion of: supernatural experiences (inc mannequins), claustrophobia. Mentions of: nightmares, anxiety, spiders, burning, falling, COVID-19 pandemic. SFX: water sounds, grinding, high pitched sounds, wind. | |
MAG Retrospective - Crew's Qs with Jonny & Alex | Spoilers for all of The Magnus Archives. Discussion of: smoking, physical violence, nuclear accidents, death, vertigo. Mentions of: unreality, panic, war, mould and rot, COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol. |