Painkiller (TV Mini Series 2023) Poster

(2023)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Flash of sex scene with brief female and male side breast nudity and thrusting.
  • Penis and testicles, shown of cadaver lying on morgue table in distant- very brief.
  • Main male character is shown fully nude in service station restroom. Butt, hip is shown.
  • Brief shot of female backside in thong in second episode.
  • Woman shown in skimpy underwear and bra pulling up into a dress.
  • Extended party scene with a dozen scantily clad women dancing.
  • In a hallucination party scene there is a naked man on all fours and there is a stuffed toy having sex with him from behind. Nothing sensitive is shown.
  • In a hallucination party scene, there is a naked woman, straddling a stuffed toy, simulating sex, nothing sensitive as shown.
  • Sex scene in episode 2. Loads of overly exaggerated moaning from the woman and flash oh her breast and nipple. Male chest nudity too.
  • Sexual assault of the woman sales rep in episode 4, where a doctor gropes her by putting his hands up her skirt, speaks vile sexual things to her and kisses her even though she clearly didn't consent and was uncomfortable. Scene is brief and there is no nudity but vulgar and very uncomfortable.
  • Men seen peeing in bottle... Bare buttocks are shown.

Violence & Gore

  • A character bites through their finger in an episode. We see blood drip down on the plate and the finger is briefly shown.
  • 1st episode they show a labotomy; so a pick type tool going into the eye. It's shown for quite a bit, very disturbing.

Profanity

  • Many f-bombs.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There are many depictions of addictive behavior.
  • Alcohol being part of celebrations and positive scenes, a few smoking scenes (at the hands of a 'bad' character) and many many many pills consumption and drug lines snored throught the series.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Multiple scenes of people losing control over drug withdrawal.
  • Some overdose scenes with people coming back from it. Or not. Being helped/saved. Or not.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • On the last episode a character punches another on the floor several times, blood spills, the viewer sees both perspectives (looking up and looking down) a few times, quite intense.

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