On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.
This tv show contains 78 potentially triggering events.
In season three Gus, Doctor Singh and Big Man is forced to leave without Bear and Wendy and does not have the chance to say goodbye as the original plan was to bring them along.
One of the worst examples is a father in s3 who, after his wife gives birth, immediately goes to cut the hybrid features off the infant with a razor, his other child is forced to bind his wings and suppress his bat hearing and pretend to be a human child, they also teach him to hate hybrids. He then unlearns it with the help of Gus
Mainly in season 2 the doctor’s wife, when she has a break through about killing hybrids isn’t good and everything, tries to stop her husband from butchering hybrids but is gaslighted many times by him because he his obsessed by his researches
The current generation of children (10 and younger) are widely despised and feared to the point that they are hunted for sport and references are made to many being tortured and experimented on in a medical setting. It is implied to be commonplace to abandon them at birth in the wild, only some of which survive.
There is a tiger chained up and used to kill people. It looks like it is in a lot of de-stress. It is animated so not a real animal. The effects are pritty stunning thought.
i know the wolf kids are humans, but the one kids death was really reminiscent of putting down a dog so if this is triggering for you rn you might wanna skip season 3 episode 4, and maybe episode 3 too
sharp “medical” tools are seen on screen quite a few times.
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later in the show, i believe around episode 5, one of gus’s antlers is cut off as an intimidation tactic. the saw is shown on screen shortly, but we don’t see it happen.
Beginning of episode, Big Man has a nightmare about when he joined the Last Men. He then wakes up struggling to breathe from a panic attack. Skip the first five and a half minutes to skip all of that and the audible breathing issues.
It is not graphic. A house is set on fire with someone still inside. If I remember correctly, you do hear them scream. But the viewpoint is from outside.
Big Man/Jepp doesn’t self identify as disabled but does have a chronic condition in his knee which he takes pain meds for early on in the show and his health declines as the show progresses. He is played by an actor who isn’t disabled himself though. Some of the non-speaking hybrids aren’t played by Deaf or non speaking actors as well
One of the kids is a skunk. WHen he is presented to Gus, he farts loudly (I believe skunks actually spray something, so more like spray-pee than farting, but never mind).
Probably it will come up as useful later and there will be more farting.
Not horrible. Around episode 3 that guy gets his head clamped in a bear trap off screen, very quick. The dream sequence around episode 8/9 with the doctor has some tearing noises, again, very quick. The bone saw around the last episode starting up was what bothered me, but it was just started up - not used on screen.
Not really, but there is a scene that might give similar icks. A character gives someone their name, and they ask "No, your real name." which to me, with the specific tone, felt like this to me personally, but it might not to others. It was near the end of season one, or the beginning of season two i am unsure.
There is a tree which is the reason the hybrids and the sick exist and is the heart of the earth, literally and metaphorically, the tree is eventually set on fire so the universe “can decide for itself” if humans or hybrids should be the surviving species
Syringes are shown briefly in most of the episodes. Spoiler-free timestamps-
Ep1: 21:30-22:00 syringe is tied to a stick, not shown in use
Ep2: 22:06-22:20 syringe is filled & used to administer medication
Ep3: 11:26-11:41 syringe shown injecting medication
20:57-21:22 blood drawn from a finger prick
Ep4: SAFE
Ep5: 4:37-4:49 syringe removed from case, implied offscreen that a woman is injected with it and can be heard yelling from her house
Ep6: SAFE
Ep7: 3:09-3:16 scientist injects test into an egg
Ep8: SAFE
A main cast person works as a psychologist before The Great Crumble and there are short scenes of her in a mental institution listening to some of the patients story’s
The hospital shows up a lot but there aren't any procedures being done. Around the last episode, the doctor starts up a bone saw but it is not used on screen and it only plays for a few second. There are quite a few syringes used in the show however.
There is somewhat an equivalent where a hybrid child is forced to bind his wings and pretend to be human as well as being fed lies and conspiracy theories about hybrids to make him hate them and himself
"Sweet Tooth" Gus is frequently overwhelmed by the new, loud, scary world. Almost every episode he has a panic attack. It's mostly portrayed through hyperventilation and denial/flight response.
the hybrids can be seen as neurodivergents, and there is a clearly reference to asperger's work during 2nd war, with the unusfull autistics who didn't speak and can be killed and those who are more intelligents and can be usefull to society, at the end of the 8 episode of season 1
Somewhat? The Last Men seem to scout out and stuff before they do things, such as leaving the pink ribbons to mark someone, which can be a form of this, possibly?
Not on screen. A pregnant woman is shown being taken into a hospital. You don't see the baby until it has been separated from the mother and placed into an IC unit.
No jokes, but there are some comments on Jepperd's size and weight.
In season 1 Ep 1: [pubba's] bigger than you (said by Gus) -they don't make 'em bigger than me (said by Jepperd). episode 5: at an old bridge. Jepperd says "it won't hold our weight" (referring to the group). Bear responds "you mean your weight".
Gus touches the tree and is in a forest where he talks to people who have passed that give him words of advice, this is more like a dream than limbo but still some might be triggered by it
Technically, most of the people in the series are? But nobody really talks about it, they're more focused on the fact that humanity's dying out than the fact barely anyone has a steady home, if that makes sense. Not sure if this counts, but just in case this helps anyone I'm saying it.
A lot of people die. And many sad things happen. The ending is not as terrible as it could be, and there is adventure still to be had, hope even.
But with all the sad things happening right before the ending it's hard to say the ending isn't sad.