Dark Matter

TV Show • 2015 • Sci-Fi  

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The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?
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Does the dog die?
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There is an adorable non-dying dog in season 3 that sparks an adorable conversation between Two and Three about whether they should get a dog for the ship.
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No. See section on sexual assault for a few uncomfortable situations and near-misses.
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Yes, nothing too uncomfortable but many sexually violent threats and unwanted touching to Two and even Five. There's also a character that goes even farther with Three. She's less violent but it's definitely dubious consent.
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- Early season 1, Two gets presumptuously kissed in a mutually flirty context, but she's not enthusiastic about it. Next time it's about to happen, she stops and says no.
- S1E10-11 Gross harassment and threats to both Two and Five multiple times from side characters. At one point, someone puts a hand on Two, first on her waist, then around her throat while continuing to make sexually violent threats, and the rest of the crew blames her for fighting back. Later Five is assaulted to a similar extent. (Important footnote: Two's main harasser later gets her alone and unconscious, but he doesn't take advantage.)
- S2E1-2 People with power over Two make sexual threats. One time it's a hand to the back of the neck when she's in her underwear and an insinuation that she needs to be "nice" to the "right people." Another time someone leans in and holds a handful of her hair to his face.
- S2E3 See section on PTSD. The memory in question takes place in a dark alley and may have possibly led to sexual assault, but the replay ends early.
- Later in season 2, Three is roughly dragged to bed by another character despite his protests. They kiss and grind. He tries to leave, she pulls him back, and he eventually gets away.
- s2e11, Five is kidnapped, and gross threats are implied involving sex trafficking.
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Does a pet die?
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Is there pedophilia?
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A sixteen year old experiences sexual threats and unwanted touching on multiple occasions.
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In s2ep11 a villain is seen carrying a dead animal he's hunted. Looks like a rabbit.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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S1E12 Uncomfortable medical torture
S2E3 See PTSD
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Is rape mentioned?
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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S2e4, hints that Three's upbringing with his father figure was gaslighty and emotionally rough.
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Addiction
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(see section on addiction)
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Is there addiction?
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(vague spoilers) In season 2, a recurring character is introduced who has a strong addiction to drugs and likely alcohol too. This is very thoroughly explored and it gets heavy at times. This person sneaks drugs. They have moments where they try to resist but intense cinematography and acting depict them succumbing anyway. They open up to another character who is thinking of taking anti-anxiety pills without consultation or prescription and they advise against it, sharing a moment when their own addiction prevented them from saving someone's life.
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In s2ep7, a drug addicted character holes up in a hallway with a bottle of liquor and talks about addiction. Alcohol is also very present throughout the show and characters often get drunk socially. Five is pressured to drink despite being underage. A character is mentioned in late season 3 as having gone off on a "bender," and in the first episode of Virtual Season 4, this is confirmed to involve alcohol as a character discusses concern over their growing drinking problem.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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No horses so doesn't apply
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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S2
 E11
In s2ep11 a villain is seen carrying a dead animal he's hunted. Looks like a rabbit.
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Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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No cats, so doesn't apply
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Does a dragon die?
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I regret to inform you all that show does not contain any dragons :)
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Are there snakes?
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A handful of tense episodes with rustic/forested environments where you might expect to encounter snakes, but none are ever present.
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Are there bugs?
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s1e8: Characters are eating burgers that apparently look and taste good, but are made from mealworms. Some of them discover this partway through the meal and react with varying levels of disgust and/or indifference.
S2E1: Three picks a mealworm out of his food.
S2E2: Three is eating the same kind of food and remarks that he "hopes that was a raisin."
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Bodily Harm
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People are frequently and graphically threatened, cut, stabbed, and even killed by blades including close up throat cutting.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there amputation?
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In the first episode, an android gets their arm cut off during a fight, but it reattaches.

When the future vision sequence starts in
an episode mid season 3, there's a vision of a conscious android shown on a table in a pile of detached limbs.
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Does a head get squashed?
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S1
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Most notably in S1E10. It happens to a side character (deservedly) and is played for laughs.
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Yes, very often, and with very distinct sound effects. Too numerous to count them all, but I'll try to start making a list:
S1E10 it happens to a side character as comeuppance for unwanted touching.
S2E3 it happens to a side character during hand to hand combat.
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Is someone tortured?
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(Mild spoilers)
(S1E2) Protagonists capture a low-ranking villain and make gloaty threats to torture him. They aren't specific but they brandish bladed weapons, and it fades to black.
(S1E4) Some protagonists get captured and tied to chairs with rope-sized wire and threatened with a shock stick in a gloaty bantering fashion. They're briefly tortured but negotiate, and this ends with the villain leaving the room. In a scene played for laughs, they must now indirectly "torture" themselves by using the shock stick to weaken the wire binding them to the chairs.
(S1EP8) Some villains discuss a plan to capture and (non-specifically) torture a protagonist, but they never get close to completing this plan.
(S1E11) A protagonist is tied to a chair and repeatedly hit in the face. It's rough and goes on for a while, and there's blood. They start to gloat about prying fingers off. Another protagonist is brought in, and the villains gloat about sexual assault with some threatening touches to the face and also gloat about prying fingers off.
(S1e12) a protagonist is restrained and a villain gloats as he prepares to open their skull without anesthesia. It fades to black and the character is shown escaping but with a bloody saw mark on their forehead. This scene also appears in "previously on" flashbacks several times throughout the rest of the series.
(S2EP7) has gloaty threatening and more face punching.
(S2EP9) has several kinds of more (brief) medical-ish torture.
(S3E11), a side character is tortured with an especially cruel and high tech attack on their nerves. i.e. making them feel as if various specific horrifically graphic things are happening.
(CONTINUING TO SEASON 4 VIRTUAL EPISODES, MILD SPOILERS)
(S4e1) There's an extended sequence spanning multiple scenes where a protagonist needs to be tortured with a shock stick for plot reasons, and characters that care about them have no choice but to condone it and watch.
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S3
 E11
Not explicitly but in S3E11 a side character is tortured with the false but painful sensation of getting a needle stabbed through their eye.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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***Vague details, vague spoilers***
Just one instance of a side character child dying (S1E3) and mentions of other children dying offscreen (S1E6) Additionally, a main character is a teenager and is frequently in danger, and sometimes hurt, but never killed. Only a few other children are in danger, and none are hurt.
***More details, more spoilers***
Five, a major character, is a teenager and does NOT die but is threatened and put in dangerous situations many times.
S1E3 A main character very suddenly comes across the dead body of a teenager in a storage room. There's a closeup of his face.
S1E6 It's revealed that the same people who fatally wounded the teenager also killed many other teenagers too.
S2E2 Five is slapped and threatened with a gun.
S2E4 Two children are put in perilous situations but the adults take care of their safety.
S3E9 They all meet three kids who are around 11 years old, and they're never in danger. In
S3E7 (and a few other episodes) A major character's young child is mentioned, but they're never in danger.
S3E13 a major character is revealed to have an infant child, but they're never threatened.
S4E1 The infant child returns, and the surrounding events make characters worried about their safety, but they're fine.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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s2e4 at the beginning you can hear an argument that leads to the death of three's parents. later in that same episode a dickwad kills a father. also in another episode it's mentioned that five's parents are dead.
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Five is literally and stereotypically KIDnapped in s2e11 by overtly evil ruffians who somewhat graphically threaten to human traffick her, but she's rescued before anything bad happens. Beyond that, there's a lot of instances of people being captured and held against their will. (Does an arrest count as a kidnapping if the police are corrupt?) Other times a character is knocked out, dragged somewhere, tied up, gagged, threatened, etc, but is that just taking prisoners or kidnapping or.....anyway if kidnapping makes you uncomfortable, be careful because it happens a lot. Sometimes there's torture involved (see related section) but it's less common for a kidnapped character to be tortured. Mostly the character escapes or is let go or rescued/traded before anything remotely bad happens, even if things look scary or grim.
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Does someone cheat?
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Season 1 has love triangles and vague relationship statuses and jealousy all over but no explicit cheating.
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Fear
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(Specific discussion of individual scenes that sometimes spoil minor plot points or part of an episode) S1ep4 Five is exploring a storage area and comes across a dead body very suddenly. There's a moment near the end of season 2 (at the conference) where Five is sneaking around on a space station and is snuck up on and grabbed out of nowhere (by a friend). Mid season 3, Six is negotiating a ceasefire on a mining colony when someone he's talking to gets abruptly shot in the head in the middle of a conversation.
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Yes, season 1, we see a silhouette and then her back from the waist up. There's another scene in s2ep1 where characters including women are shoved into a decontamination chamber and ordered to strip down to their underwear.
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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(vague spoilers) In s2e3, some main characters are possessed by their past-selves because something something science magic. Possession happens in an especially intense and scary way in S2e9 but doesn't last too long. A recurring side character is revealed to have been possessed in s2ep10. Then in s3e8, the android is possessed by a recurring villain. This is foreshadowed several times. Intense-scary possession is also a major plot in S3 eps 11 and 13. Continuing onto Virtual Season 4, it's especially intense in s4e1 but finally gets resolved.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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season 1 episode 6 at 33:30 (it’s six)
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Medical
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S1
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Yes but offscreen and only a mention. In S1E2 a main character is told (as a veiled threat) that a side character has been taken to a psych ward for electro-shock therapy.
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Yes, very many times. (spoilers to follow)
S1E4 A character is about to be injected with something by a doctor, and he grabs his arm and then the needle, and injects the doctor with it instead.
S1E13 An unconscious character is discovered, and the crew discover he'd been injected with something. There's a large mark on his upper arm, but no needle is shown.
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Mention yes, scene no. (See section on electro-therapy)
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Bad doctor moments:
- Trying to sedate + kidnap
- Announce they will be operating without anesthesia to be cruel (S1E12)
- Gloating about electro-therapy (S2E1)
- Guiltily talking about negligence leading to a patient dying.
Good doctor moments:
- Trying to save a patient who probably can't be saved.
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Mental Health
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Early season 2, a character burns his hand on purpose for vaguely strategic reasons. Then in S3ep7 a character slices a deep close-up gash into his hand to prove a point.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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S1
 E8
No, but in S1e8 a character is anxious about a process that he doesn't fully understand and would leave him vulnerable with very minor but deadly risks. In a scene played for laughs, he gets increasingly agitated and asks question after question until the attendant stops answering and starts the process against his will.
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A character fakes claustrophobia to get special treatment.
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This doesn't have anything to do with an eating disorder but may feel relevant to the topic.... There's mention of a character putting on a few pounds because they've been eating a little more lately, and this is framed in a very wholesome mental health way i.e. "Yay this means you're less stressed now, and I'm happy for you!"
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Mid season 1, one of the main characters' memories involved them experiencing traumatic news and shooting themself in the head, only for the gun to be empty.
s2ep6 shows the aftermath of a gruesome suicide.
S2ep10 has someone almost hallucinate their way into shooting themself.
S3e10, two characters decide they're a liability and commit suicide despite people emotionally pleading with them to stop.
S3e11 a side character shoots themself in the head to avoid a worse fate.
S3E12 a side character slits his own throat to avoid interrogation.
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Prejudice
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Not a slur, but a more masculine male character repeatedly calls a less masculine male character "pretty boy" in a disparaging way.
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S1
 E3
The crew discuss suspicions of sabotage. Someone refers to the potential saboteur as "he or she," and Three interjects "...or IT" to indicate the Android (who normally uses she/her pronouns)
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Spoiler-lite version:
(1.) S1E7 a single episode character dies who is extremely LGBT coded.
(2. ) A secondary recurring character dies near the end of season 2 who is possibly LGBT.
(3.) A secondary recurring LGBT character is introduced near the end of season 3 who does not die but has been terminally ill for some time and has accepted death.

(***SPOILERY VERSION****)
(1.) S1E7 an android character is introduced who is played by a famous genderfluid actor. She seems to proposition Two and also mentions to One that she has interchangeable anatomy. Sure anatomy doesn't determine gender identity and an LGBT-programmed robot is different from an LGBT person, but at very least, all things considered she's someone who would make many LGBT audience members go "oh hey neat!" and she is destroyed.
(2.) Near the end of Season 2, a recurring secondary character dies with no prior indication of being LGBT and then she somehow "appears" before another female character under mysterious circumstances and kisses her. It's unclear whether this appearance/kiss is because the dead character is LGBT and manifesting as some sort of ghost or because the other female character is LGBT and hallucinating the kiss because she had a crush. (Additional spoiler that is less vague and less necessary) By the end of Season 3, we learn that the other female character is bi/pan AND likely had a crush on the dead character AND does not die!
(3.) Near the end of season 3, a secondary recurring character is introduced who is sapphic/wlw and in flashbacks, we learn that she has a brain tumor but refused a solution that could have preserved her consciousness when her body died. She is still alive as of the end of season 3 and has been given a treatment which will let her live a little while longer.
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Black characters do die and arguably because they were considered narratively expendable, but several white characters who are equally or more important die in this way first. (Spoilers: There's a few instances where Six appears to die...which WOULD fulfil the trope of the Black guy dying first...but he doesn't die. In s1e2, he volunteers to go on what is likely a suicide mission, and the scene plays up the angst, but he's stopped before he can go. In s1e8, it opens where he talks to some men in a warehouse, and they shoot him, but he turns out to have been using a sort of disposable clone technology. In S2E2 he gets shot and falls to the ground but survives.)(SPOILERS FOR VIRTUAL SEASON FOUR! It is revealed early on in season four that Six didn't die when he opened the portal - he was merely transported to the other universe)
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Sex
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Things that are shown include undressing, clothed grinding, and pillow talk, and it's either interrupted or fades to black. The most you see is underwear, women's backs, and sideboob.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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It ends at the end of season 3 and was supposed to go on for two more seasons. A lot of things don't get resolved, and that's sad, however the season finale of season 3, is somewhat less of a tense dangerous scary hopeless cliffhanger than the other two. (There's also presumably canon "virtual season four" episode scripts that were posted to reddit by one of the writers.)
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Gun and knife wounds are very common, and the show doesn't shy away from bloody closeups. Throats, hands, stomach, pools of blood on the floor, etc. There's minimal gore though. (Early to mid season 1, Six gets an upper arm wound and Two gets a neck wound, and we see gory closeups. S2e5 a villain gets shot in the leg and fixes it with a staple gun. More gory closeups.)
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There are 3 occasions where nuclear missiles are fired. *S1e10: The first one, the warhead is disarmed before it can explode. The other kills a bunch of people, narrowly missing some main characters. *S2e8: The other almost kills a main character, but they get out at the last second. (late season 3) There are also various kinds of large nuclear-like explosions on or near each season finale.
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People are threatened, wounded, and killed by guns almost every episode, and it's often graphic and shocking.
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