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Episode 2

Murder Before Evensong

The episode features historical homophobia, including the referral to AIDS as a 'gay plague' and a character receiving written threats for publicly supporting AIDS patients. There is also use of the discriminatory term 'gypsy'.

discrimination

There is brief sight of a corpse in a pool of blood, but this scene is dimly lit. Other bloody images include a close-up of blood on a person's hands and a short sequence within a nightmare in which blood spills from a man's mouth. In another scene, a dead rat can be seen hanging on a door.

injury detail

violence

threat and horror

language

drugs

nudity

Episode 1

A man is stabbed in the neck, with sight of bloody detail. In the aftermath of the attack, the victim's dead body is shown lying in a pool of blood. 

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

Episode 3

A man threatens a woman with a knife. There is a reference to stalking.

Bad language includes 'twat' as well as milder terms including 'bloody', 'piss', 'shit', 'bollocks', 'hell' and 'Jesus'.

There are references to historical homophobia, including an aggressive use of the word 'poofter'.

During an autopsy sequence, blood flows into a drain and droplets are visible on medical tools. There is sight of a corpse with a slit throat. A man sustains a cut to the head.

A bloodless corpse is shown with a cut across its neck.

There are verbal references to a person having their throat slit, killings and murders.

A person is found dead and there is sight of a skeletal corpse.

There are moments of bloody violence, including a throat cut and a man being stabbed in the neck, resulting in spurts of blood. A person is bashed on the head with the base of a lamp.