TV Shows with High Trigger Warnings (
)

WARNING: Scenes of explicit violence, drug use, suicide, sex, and/or abuse occur regularly. Not intended for children or sensitive viewers.

Number 96

A very tawdry and promiscuous apartment block.

Network:
Airdates: 1972 - 1977

Orange is the New Black

Piper Chapman, a 30-something PR executive goes to prison for drug running with her ex-girlfriend Alex from 10 years ago. When she gets to prison — surprise — Alex is there too.

Network:
Airdates: 2013 - 2019

Ratched

In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a dark ulterior motive.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Redo of Healer

“Healing magicians cannot fight alone” – or can they?

See

Far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2022

Skins

Out of a dark British drama about of a group of self-destructive teenagers in Bristol, South West England, emerges one of TV’s best dysfunctional lesbian teen relationships.

Network:
Airdates: 2007 - 2013

Soldier’s Girl

The true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.

Network:
Airdates: 2003

Spartacus

I AM SPARTACUS!

Network:
Airdates: 2010 - 2013

Strange Empire

In 1869 on the Alberta-Montana border, the women fight to survive and to raise their families.

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2015

Stranger Inside

A mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women’s correctional facility.

Network:
Airdates: 2001

Swarm

Swarm is a satire of the fandom world that we live in. What happens when a fan’s love of a pop star goes too far?

Network:
Airdates: 2023

The 100

100 attractive teenagers are dropped onto an ‘uninhabited’ and ‘irradiated’ earth to see if it’s survivable.

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2020