Updated for Season 2:
In ep.7 "Project Reboot" (time stamp: 4:30-4:40), there is a montage of JR and Rand testing inventions, including a dog-walking machine, which kills the test dog. We don't see it killed on-screen, but we see the dog dragged into the distance (no blood) then it cuts to them burying the dog with the invention (we see a bloody paw).
Also in ep.8, the whole B plot follows the team trying to convince Brett to kill Air Bud (the golden retriever) and they fire guns at him, but Air Bud ends up being allowed to live unharmed (though he does begin to walk on his hind paws and grow thumbs, which is what the team was trying to prevent by trying to kill him, so it's possible they might kill him next season).
Reagan's mom uses the term "Asperger's" and says it "gets worse over time" (which is both factually incorrect & horrifically ableist). Reagan is also written with a bunch of Autistic traits that get mocked throughout the show. It seems like one or more of the creators of this show may have internalized ableism.
In a way. The universe is essentially "what if conspiracy was reality" which could be considered unstable/unhinged. (I haven't watched the series in a while so this might be a bad explanation)
Reagan is gaslit by her father, Rand, and the effects of such are shown in detail. Many people also have their minds erased by the shadow government, Cognito Inc.
In episode seven of season 2 randy makes a drawing of a new invention he wants to make with a robot that aids in dog fighting but it’s just a drawing and no actual scenes follow it up
Episode 4 for the second half of Brett's arc in particular. He is sexually assaulted by Glenn's wife, and later victim blamed by a handful of his coworkers.
Also the beginning of Episode 7 creeps into some unsettling territory as we see the main character Reagan hook up with a stranger after getting worryingly intoxicated.
The main character’s finger is shot off, but the artstyle allows for it to be not-so gory. It is later replaced with a robotic finger, which falls off.
Better safe than sorry, in this case. There is several scenes of violence, including gun violence, and there is body horror present in many scenarios. Many people and things considered not people are killed. Amputation is present by non-medical means, and there is a surgery scene later on that presents an unclean finished product that may be disturbing to view. A staged hit and run via gun occurs.
No, but there is a recreational surgery scene in episode 4. Also, a brief clip of a characters plot-relevant surgery is shown in the intro (no detail).
An outdated term is used, and the subject of the main characters autism is exploited by her mother, who had wrote a book after she had divorced her husband, and references what 'problems' she struggled raising her. Many people comment on the main characters behaviour, and both parents are dubious at best about how they raised Reagan.
A character experiences a continuous panic attack in episode 6. Another character is briefly shown to be panicking due to a bad trip in episode 1, but it is not shown in depth.
Several of the main characters seem to be dealing with this as a result of neglectful or traumatizing childhoods. It's shown accurately, they experience flashbacks as a result of triggers. Episodes 3 and 8 show the main character's flashbacks explicitly.
No, but I wanted to note a background character who makes a few appearances named Stem Cell Steve who looks like a fetus. By all accounts he seems to be just another guy who works at Cognito, regardless of appearance.
Jokes are frequently made at antisemites' expense. The lizard people are not a stand-in for Jewish people, but it is entirely understandable to consider the trope too far gone. They do use "asperger's" when "autism" would be fine, which is annoying.
Possibly. A character who is a sentient mushroom (voiced by a man) dresses up as Marilyn Monroe to act as bait for an amalgamation of JFK clones. He seems annoyed, but the gag is largely that the JFK amalgamation is easy to trick.
There are mentions of celebrities (namely Leonardo DiCaprio) dating very young women, but this is strictly making fun of them and there’s no presented age gaps. Most of the main characters aside from JR and Rand are most likely in their 30s.
Incest does not occur, but a character believes that another is her real father. This 'father' misinterprets the events they undergo, and believed that the character wanted to be with them sexually, and attempts to do so. The character does not know that this isn't her father until near the end of the episode.
There is plenty of explicit sexual content and mentions of masturbation and sex throughout. The only time a character is fully nude, it is for comedic, non-sexual purposes and there’s no full-frontal nudity.
For the most part, no. There is a scene in one episode where Glenn cries tears of joy and a model tells him to stop because he's "too sexy to cry." Gigi also tells Brett not to frown because his smile is "what people like about him." So it has less to do with gender norms and more to do with objectification.
there are depictions of background characters struggling with conditions inflicted upon them in many instances. many of these characters are non human.
In ep.7 "Project Reboot" (time stamp: 4:30-4:40), there is a montage of JR and Rand testing inventions, including a dog-walking machine, which kills the test dog. We don't see it killed on-screen, but we see the dog dragged into the distance (no blood) then it cuts to them burying the dog with the invention (we see a bloody paw).
Also in ep.8, the whole B plot follows the team trying to convince Brett to kill Air Bud (the golden retriever) and they fire guns at him, but Air Bud ends up being allowed to live unharmed (though he does begin to walk on his hind paws and grow thumbs, which is what the team was trying to prevent by trying to kill him, so it's possible they might kill him next season).