Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
This tv show contains 2 potentially triggering events.
Series as a whole is very dark and gritty. Few episodes end on a high note and many major characters die throughout the series - often out of nowhere. The final episode is particularly heartbreaking.
Several headshots are shown, including some really graphic ones. There are a couple of scenes of heads being brutally beaten. Sometimes brain matter is shown.
A woman’s hand and then face are forced into boiling oil. She screams when her hand is forced into the oil and again when her head is forced into the oil. The scene is very graphic and upsetting.
A woman is abused by her husband. There are references to him hitting her, he is heard shouting at her behind a door, she has a split lip from where he has hit her. He humiliated her by forcing her to open her shirt in front of him and a few other men.
A woman’s hand and then her face are forced into a vat of boiling oil. She is heard screaming and begging the man not to push her into the oil. The scene is very graphic and upsetting.
S2E8 Soldier v….ts after exercise with gas masks. Graphic visual and audio. S3E2 About 32 minutes in, when the professor wakes up from his drunken slumber, he says I’m going to be sick and runs to the toilet. Mostly sounds of retching. S3E5 Almost at very end, Danny is shown being sick in the toilet. You will see it coming and can mute. S3E9 Around 25 minutes in, the prisoner has been poisoned and gets sick (visual and audio) S5E1 at 6 minutes, a man on a bus starts coughing, puts a tissue to his mouth and starts coughing up blood. S3E10 At around 26 minutes, Fiona sticks her finger down her throat to v…t (audio and visual). Vomit is then shown in next seen. S5E1 At 6 minutes, a man on a bus starts coughing, puts a tissue to his mouth and coughs up blood.