A full list of content warnings is provided here for ease of reference. Warnings for individual episodes can also be found in the show notes and in the transcripts.
Season 1
1 | MAG 1 - Angler Fish | Abduction, unsettling strangers, uncanny valley, alcohol, smoking, minor emetophobia. |
2 | MAG 2 - Do Not Open | Compulsion, coffins, money, altered mental states, frequent drug mentions, drug use, undead, sleep disorders. |
3 | MAG 3 - Across the Street | Unreality, gaslighting, stalking, being watched, imposters, someone being replaced and only you notice, smoking, paranoia-inducing, head injury, surveillance, identity theft, body horror, death, obsessions (watching people). |
4 | MAG 4 - Page Turner | Money, lightning, electrocution, heights, vertigo, body horror (skin mutilation), human remains, animal bones, injury (twisted ankle, scars), book burning. Mentions of: food, a child murdering their mother. |
5 | MAG 5 - Thrown Away | Dolls, teeth, unsanitary, body horror, privacy invasion, mental instability, emetophobia, mild car accident, mild alcohol mention, injury (twisted ankle), police, mild stalking, implied violence/murder. |
6 | MAG 6 - Squirm | Unreality, muggings, attacked in the street, sexual content (non-explicit), worms, gore (people exploding), body horror, scratching, worm infestations in human bodies, things under skin, physical violence, paranoia, fire, alcohol use, emetophobia, mention of drug use. |
7 | MAG 7 - The Piper | War, battle, injuries, blood, gun violence, knife violence, bomb violence, psychological trauma, injury (burns), flamethrowers. |
8 | MAG 8 - Burned Out | Unreality, death of a father, mental illness (schizophrenia), fire, unsanitary, food, injury (burns), head trauma, immolation, gore, graphic suicide by self-harm, paranoia-inducing, spiders. |
9 | A Father’s Love | Child harm, child neglect, disappearance of parent, death of parent, religious violence, serial killer, gore, cults, being chased, darkness, heartbeat sound. |
10 | MAG 10 - Vampire Killer | Physical violence, child death, death of a sibling, immolation, heroin/alcohol abuse, gore, cancer, spousal abuse, child abuse, knife violence, blood, hemophobia, survivor’s guilt, fire, distended stomach. |
11 | MAG 11 - Dreamer | Death, foreseeing death (not one’s own), unreality, mental instability, sleep disorders, body horror, suicide, heart disease, strokes, death of a father. |
12 | MAG 12 - First Aid | Unreality, immolation, burn injuries, scopophobia, medical setting, knife violence, brain tumour, murder. |
13 | MAG 13 - Alone | Rejection, emotional abuse, isolation, death of a loved one, car crashes, graveyard, getting lost. |
14 | MAG 14 - Piecemeal | Self-harm, body horror, gore, cannibalism, derogatory language towards addicts, finger trauma, descriptive murder, knife violence, tooth loss. |
15 | Lost John’s Cave | Claustrophobia, drowning, death of a sibling, unhealthy family dynamics, caves, survivor’s guilt, darkness, getting lost, unintelligible spooky voice (post statement). |
16 | MAG 16 - Arachnophobia | Spiders, death, suffocation, being followed, paranoia-inducing, bugs going into people’s mouths. |
17 | The Boneturner’s Tale | Body horror, bone removal, harm to animals (pet rat), blood, rat mention, death. |
18 | MAG 18 - The Man Upstairs | Unsanitary (meat), decay, strangers, trypophobia, emetophobia. |
19 | MAG 19 - Confession | Religious violence, cannibalism, possession, hallucinations, loss of faith, seizures, head trauma. |
20 | MAG 20 - Desecrated Host | Religious violence, cannibalism, possession, hallucinations, emetophobia, loss of touch with reality. |
21 | MAG 21 - Freefall | Agoraphobia, acrophobia, falling, death of one’s adult child, survivor’s guilt, jumpscare [17:55 (post-statement section), 16:40 on YouTube, 17:24 on Spotify]. |
22 | MAG 22 - Colony | Being trapped, parasites, worms, mention of spiders, trypophobia, scratching, body horror, infestation of worms in a human body. |
23 | MAG 23 - Schwartzwald | Claustrophobia, eye horror, graveyard, figures/shadows in a forest. |
24 | MAG 24 - Strange Music | Physical violence, dolls, clowns, mild gore, unhealthy romantic relationships. |
25 | MAG 25 - Growing Dark | Cults, helplessness, darkness, people you know acting strangely, grabbing hands, cemeteries, religion, church. |
26 | MAG 26 - A Distortion | Physical violence, worms, infestation in human bodies, body horror, trypophobia, uncanny valley. |
27 | MAG 27 - A Sturdy Lock | Death of a loved one, home intrusion, paranoia-inducing, blood (from unknown/supernatural source), police, ignorant law enforcement, threats of elder abuse. |
28 | MAG 28 - Skintight | Skinning, physical violence, people being uncanny, smoking, watching someone without their knowledge. |
29 | MAG 29 - Cheating Death | War + warlike injuries, gun violence, mention of bomb violence, gore, self-harm, existential horror, apeirophobia |
30 | MAG 30 - Killing Floor | Animal death (cow, sheep, pig), referenced animal abuse, self-harm, physical violence, gore, surreal, people being slaughtered like animals, slaughterhouses. |
31 | MAG 31 - First Hunt | Gun violence + hunting (for sport), talk of guns in an admirable light, being chased, animal harm/death, war, murder, gore, mild agoraphobia + otherwise feelings of helplessness. |
32 | MAG 32 - Hive | Insects (ants, hornets), infestations, worms, spiders, mild gore, body horror, unreality, trypophobia, dermatillomania, altered mental state, mental instability, fatphobia. |
33 | Boatswain’s Call | Isolation, thalassophobia, mentioned sexism, forced silence. |
34 | MAG 34 - Anatomy Class | Body horror, blood, gore, uncanny, teeth, mentioned suicide. |
35 | MAG 35 - Old Passages | Claustrophobia, animal bones, jumpscare [23:11, 22:16 on Spotify], worms (inc SFX). |
36 | MAG 36 - Taken Ill | Disease, physical violence, elder abuse, death + existentialism, insects (flies), dermatillomania, graphic descriptions of illness. |
37 | MAG 37 - Burnt Offering | Immolation, spousal death, fear that your child may die, self-harm, animal death (wild animals), suicide. |
38 | MAG 38 - Lost and Found | Death, spouse death, believing you are going insane, having others doubt your memory/fear of gaslighting, paranoia-inducing, loud screaming (loud shout of “RUN!” at the very end of the episode), jumpscares from 17:00 onwards. |
39 | MAG 39 - Infestation | Parasites, gore, physical violence, body horror, trypophobia, uncanny, jumpscares [02:07s, 02:11, 02:16, 06:40, 18:25], loud screaming (pained shouting by John at the beginning of the episode, long frightened scream by Sasha near the end), alarm sounds, high-pitched audio interference. |
40 | MAG 40 - Human Remains | Parasites, gore, physical violence, body horror, trypophobia, gun violence (referenced). |
Season 2
41 | MAG 41 - Too Deep | Claustrophobia, surreal, dead worms, prison. |
42 | Grifter’s Bone | Physical violence, gore, self-harm, suicide, altered mental state, injury (ear trauma), blood, scars, memory loss, murder. |
43 | MAG 43 - Section 31 | Immolation, (attempted) suicide, police. Mentions of: spiders. |
44 | MAG 44 - Tightrope | Physical violence, body horror, ableism, unreality, discussion of heights/falling, clowns. |
45 | MAG 45 - Blood Bag | Unsanitary, insects (mosquitos), illnesses, hemophobia, blood, death by bugs. Mentions of: syringes. |
46 | MAG 46 - Literary Heights | Lightning, death, acrophobia, suicide, high-pitched audio interference. Mentions of: spiders. |
47 | MAG 47 - The New Door | Surreal, abduction, physical violence, unreality, mazes, loud shout [16:46 on YouTube], high-pitched audio interference. |
48 | MAG 48 - Lost in the Crowd | Agoraphobia, abduction, thalassophobia, isolation, people being unsettling. |
49 | The Butcher’s Window | Body horror, torture, bone removal, death and dying, frequent drug mentions, mentioned drug use from a major character, alcohol abuse. |
50 | MAG 50 - Foundations | Surreal, claustrophobia, live burial. |
51 | MAG 51 - High Pressure | Deep-sea exploration, suffocation, surreal, drowning, high-pitched audio interference, thalassophobia. |
52 | MAG 52 - Exceptional Risk | Prison, serial killer mention, darkness, violence, death, suicide mention, law enforcement brutality (abuse of inmates by prison guards). |
53 | MAG 53 - Crusader | War (bombs, gun tanks, fellow soldiers dying), body horror, corpses, eye horror. |
54 | MAG 54 - Still Life | Unsanitary, dead animals, taxidermy, people being uncanny, inanimate objects moving. |
55 | MAG 55 - Pest Control | Unsanitary, insects (ants, mention of wasps, bedbugs, and cockroaches), strangulation, self-immolation, trypophobia, fire, burning. |
56 | MAG 56 - Children of the Night | Death, violence, drug use, poverty, people made of spiders, body horror, injection mention, amputation of toes, cancer, jumpscare (bang) [20:18 on YouTube (post-statement section)], angry yelling. |
57 | MAG 57 - Personal Space | Isolation, solitary confinement, space exploration, darkness, paranoia, starvation, suicide, existential crisis. |
58 | MAG 58 - Trail Rations | Cannibalism, spousal death, knife violence, freezing to death, people being uncanny, undead/dead bodies coming to life. |
59 | MAG 59 - Recluse | Past child abuse, spiders, mind control, cannibalism, death, fire. |
60 | MAG 60 - Observer Effect | Paranoia, being watched, death of a sibling, alcohol mention, fear of going insane, cancer mention. |
61 | MAG 61 - Hard Shoulder | Altered mental states, darkness, people being uncanny, police brutality. |
62 | MAG 62 - First Edition | Murder, syringe violence, skinning, mind control, mention of suicide. |
63 | MAG 63 - The End of the Tunnel | Darkness, decapitation, paranoia-inducing, being hunted by invisible creatures, invisible danger, shadows, claustrophobia. |
64 | MAG 64 - Burial Rites | Body horror, undead, suicide attempt. |
65 | MAG 65 - Binary | Transhumanism, compulsive self-mutilation, mouth harm, body horror, eating non-food items, existential horror, cancer mention, supernatural technology. |
66 | MAG 66 - Held in Customs | Claustrophobia, drug mention, darkness, being trapped, splinters. |
67 | MAG 67 - Burning Desire | Fire, burn injury, mutilation, disfigurement. Mentions of: spiders. |
68 | MAG 68 - The Tale of a Field Hospital | Disease, war, open wounds, unsanitary, illness, undead, mention of insects (flies), echoing audio. |
69 | MAG 69 - Thought for the Day | Spiders, emetophobia, madness, unethical medical experimentation, body horror, altered mental states, suffocation, self-strangulation (compelled), ableism, physical violence, mild gore, mention of psychological break. Mentions of: racism. |
70 | MAG 70 - Book of the Dead | Wounds, mild gore, physical violence, body horror, murder, immolation, death, paranoia-inducing, existential, premonitions of death. |
71 | MAG 71 - Underground | Claustrophobia, body horror, entrapment. |
72 | MAG 72 - Takeaway | Cannibalism, physical violence, mutilation, restraints, serial killer, racism/anti-Chinese racism, finger trauma. Mentions of: religious violence, infanticide. |
73 | MAG 73 - Police Lights | Gun violence, physical violence, wounds, murder, police, darkness, cults. |
74 | MAG 74 - Fatigue | Surreal, teeth, slowly worsening mental state, sleep disorder, blood (nosebleed), mention of nausea. |
75 | MAG 75 - A Long Way Down | Acrophobia, injuries (broken arm), survivor’s guilt, death of a sibling, unhealthy sibling relationships. Mentions of: drugs (cannabis). |
76 | MAG 76 - The Smell of Blood | Physical violence, gore, torture, imposters. |
77 | MAG 77 - The Kind Mother | Imposters, mimics, emotional abuse from a parent, people being replaced and only you notice, paranoia, mentioned unhealthy romantic relationships/cheating. |
78 | MAG 78 - Distant Cousin | Imposters, mimics, paranoia, high-pitched audio interference, the sound of an axe hitting wood. |
79 | MAG 79 - Hide and Seek | Imposters, mimics, being chased, loud screaming, jumpscares [03:17 on YouTube], high-pitched audio interference, distorted voices. |
80 | MAG 80 - The Librarian | Physical violence, murder, smoking (major character), mentions of insects (ants), mild audio gore. |
Season 3
81 | A Guest For Mr. Spider | Gore, physical violence, arachnophobia, compulsion, vague descriptions of past bullying, child death. |
82 | MAG 82 - The Eyewitnesses | Physical violence, murder, gaslighting, blackmailing, threatened police brutality. |
83 | MAG 83 - Drawing A Blank | Dolls, body horror (skin), physical violence, murder. Mentions of: drugs. |
84 | MAG 84 - Possessive | Unsanitary (trash), rotten food, imposters, worms, hoarding. Mentions of: cancer. |
85 | MAG 85 - Upon the Stair | Parent death, unreality, depersonalisation. |
86 | MAG 86 - Tucked In | Body horror, gore, unsanitary (unknown substances), darkness (and fear thereof), paranoia-inducing. |
87 | MAG 87 - The Uncanny Valley | Body horror, gore, unsanitary (sewage, meat), injuries (burns), dolls (moving mannequins). |
88 | MAG 88 - Dig | Altered mental states, suffocation/drowning, broken fingernails. |
89 | MAG 89 - Twice as Bright | Immolation, injuries (burns), body horror, self-harm, loud screaming [23:50, 23:21 on YouTube], drug use (recurring character). |
90 | MAG 90 - Body Builder | Body horror, body dysmorphia, bad self image, eating disorder (food restriction), animal death (sheep), sexism, steroid use. |
91 | MAG 91 - The Coming Storm | Nausea, physical violence, choking, police brutality, lightning, electrocution, death, loud gunshot noise at 15:28 on Acast, 15:27 on Spotify], smoking (major character), dissonant sounds. |
92 | MAG 92 - Nothing Beside Remains | Manipulation, police brutality. |
93 | MAG 93 - Contaminant | Parasites/mould, unsanitary, spousal death, compulsive cleaning, manipulation/compulsion. |
94 | MAG 94 - Dead Woman Walking | Altered mental states, undead, death/existentialism. |
95 | MAG 95 - Absent Without Leave | Death, body horror, gun violence, physical violence, war (discussion of WW2, fascism, Nazis), mention of cannibalism, suicide, animal death (rats). |
96 | MAG 96 - Return to Sender | Body horror, imposters, loud gunshot noise [17:12 on YouTube, 17:39 on Spotify]. |
97 | MAG 97 - We All Ignore the Pit | Abduction, live burial, altered mental states, violence, mannequins. |
98 | MAG 98 - Lights Out | Self-harm, blindness, ableism, emotional abuse from a parent, eye horror. |
99 | MAG 99 - Dust to Dust | Suffocation, live burial, animal death (livestock, particularly cattle). |
100 | MAG 100 - I Guess You Had To Be There | Spiders, mental instability, isolation, audio distortion [22:17 on YouTube], fire, people on fire, panic attack. |
100.1 | Deadlands Part 1 | Gun violence, gambling, explosive violence. |
100.2 | Deadlands Part 2 | Murder, gun violence, skinning, possession, gun violence, blunt object violence, body horror. |
100.3 | Lucid | Altered reality, sleep disorders, body horror. |
100.4 | Paint | Cursed objects, hospital suspense, guilt. |
100.5 | Assistants Round Table | Gruesome horror prop discussion. |
101 | MAG 101 - Another Twist | Clowns, body horror (skinning, distortion), emotional manipulation, high-pitched interference, assisted suicide, loud scream [20:52 on iTunes and Spotify] |
102 | MAG 102 - Nesting Instinct | Attempted murder, depression, insects (beetles), infestation in humans, body horror, unsanitary, mind control, nail horror. Mentions of: cancer. |
103 | MAG 103 - Cruelty Free | Animal death (pig), animal cannibalism, language, unsanitary, mind control, autocannibalism. |
104 | MAG 104 - Sneak Preview | Clowns, body horror (skinning), physical violence, death of a loved one. |
105 | MAG 105 - Total War | Warfare, drowning, cannibalism, undead, drug use, mass suicide. |
106 | MAG 106 - A Matter Of Perspective | Isolation, smoking, body horror (bleeding ears), deep space, discussion of death, on-screen psychological and emotional abuse/manipulation/torture. |
107 | MAG 107 - Third Degree | Being followed, live burial, death, seizure disorder, burning alive, heart attack, kidnapping, gun violence [23:20], axe violence, police, traffic stop. Mentions of: cancer. |
108 | MAG 108 - Monologue | Masks, being followed, surreal, audio interference [16:05]. |
109 | MAG 109 - Nightfall | Kidnapping, cancer, body horror, knife violence, strangulation, blood, sadism. |
110 | MAG 110 - Creature Feature | Spiders, body horror, abuse in the workplace, death. Mentions of: transphobia (no misgendering). |
111 | MAG 111 - Family Business | Child abuse, child neglect, cults, body horror (skinning), self-mutilation (implied), spousal abuse, undead, smoking (major character, recurring character). |
112 | MAG 112 - Thrill of the Chase | Knife violence, direct violence, blood, body horror, sadism, death. |
113 | MAG 113 - Breathing Room | Suffocation, death, discussion of death, blood, poisoning, undead, sharp object, eye injury, lobotomy, violence. |
114 | MAG 114 - Cracked Foundation | Spiders, mental instability, swearing, body horror. |
115 | MAG 115 - Taking Stock | Blood, cannibalism, self-harm, death. |
116 | MAG 116 - The Show Must Go On | Blood, automatons (mannequins), eye horror, knife violence, general violence, body horror, mental instability, death and dying. |
117 | MAG 117 - Testament | Gun violence, explosive violence, spiders, body horror, death and dying. |
118 | MAG 118 - The Masquerade | Fire/burning, emotional manipulation/cruelty, non-consensual mind-reading, clowns, mannequins, body horror, gunshot, jumpscare [11:18], care of a sick parent. |
119 | MAG 119 - Stranger and Stranger | Clowns, mannequins, emotional manipulation, audio distortion/interference, altered mental state, death, gore, injury (getting axed), smoking, explosion, changes in non-diegetic material (intro music), death (suicide, main character). |
120 | MAG 120 - Eye Contact | Surreal, altered mental state (coma), police brutality. References episodes: - MAG 13: Alone - MAG 28: Skintight - MAG 34: Anatomy Class - MAG 47: The New Door - MAG 55: Pest Control - MAG 61: Hard Shoulder - MAG 65: Binary - MAG 71: Underground - MAG 73: Police Lights - MAG 76: The Smell of Blood - MAG 88: Dig - MAG 89: Twice as Bright - MAG 94: Dead Woman Walking - MAG 109: Nightfall - MAG 117: Testament |
Season 4
121 | MAG 121 - Far Away | Mortality, undead, violent death (reported), tendrils, constriction, thalassophobia. |
122 | MAG 122 - Zombie | Paranoia, psychological zombies, mild ableism, solipsism, mentioned animal death (pet fish), eye horror. |
123 | MAG 123 - Web Development | Injury (surgery scars), arachnophobia, eye horror. |
124 | MAG 124 - Left Hanging | Heights/falling (cable car rides), acrophobia, cancer, death, parent death. |
125 | MAG 125 - Civilian Casualties | Body horror, blood, being chased, death, self-harm, mutilation, police, home surgery, injections, finger trauma, non-consentual drugging, screaming/yelling [22:53]. |
126 | Sculptor’s Tool | Uncanny, body horror, unreality, people you know being replaced. |
127 | MAG 127 - Remains to be Seen | Death, alcohol use, food mention, corpses, autopsy, body horror + scopophobia. |
128 | MAG 128 - Heavy Goods | Body horror, dismemberment, cannibalism, impaling, death of a loved one, human remains, alcoholism, spiders, attempted suicide, building fire, audio interference. |
129 | MAG 129 - Submerged | Drowning, natural disaster (flood), isolation, grief, emotional trauma, human remains, thalassophobia, poverty. |
130 | MAG 130 - Meat | Body horror, dismembered human remains, dismembered animal remains, emotional trauma, death and dying, sleep disorders, anti-Asian racism. |
131 | MAG 131 - Flesh | Self-harm, body horror, dismemberment, emotional trauma, knife violence, removal of bones, sounds of pain, on-screen finger trauma (inc SFX). |
132 | MAG 132 - Entombed | Claustrophobia, emotional trauma, suffocation, crushing, dissociation, self-endangering behaviour, self-hatred. |
133 | MAG 133 - Dead Horse | Body horror, gun violence, time distortion, spatial disorientation, emotional trauma, death and dying, racism. |
134 | MAG 134 - Time of Revelation | Human extinction, death and corpses, environmental disaster, existentialism, emotional manipulation. |
135 | MAG 135 - Dark Matter | Darkness, kidnapping and imprisonment, cults, manipulation, claustrophobia. |
136 | MAG 136 - The Puppeteer | Degenerative illness, puppets, manipulation, mental illness, body horror, smoking, suicidal ideation. |
137 | MAG 137 - Nemesis | War, torture experiences, extreme violence, POW (prisoner of war) experiences. |
138 | MAG 138 - The Architecture of Fear | Paranoia, being watched, body horror, eye horror, death. |
139 | MAG 139 - Chosen | Extreme violence, body horror, ritual acts and trauma, childbirth, burning alive, assisted suicide. |
140 | MAG 140 - The Movement of the Heavens | Murder, darkness, ritual acts. Mentions of: drugs, cancer. |
141 | MAG 141 - Doomed Voyage | Coercion, explosions, lightning. |
142 | MAG 142 - Scrutiny | Claustrophobia, coercion, stalking. |
143 | MAG 143 - Heart of Darkness | Gunshots, human sacrifice, coercion, cults. |
144 | MAG 144 - Decrypted | Conspiracy theories, unhealthy relationship between parent and child, poverty, environmental disaster. |
145 | MAG 145 - Infectious Doubts | Elder abuse, supernatural torture, cults. |
146 | MAG 146 - Threshold | Adverse mental health discussion, hallucinations, underage drinking. Mentions of: drugs. |
147 | MAG 147 - Weaver | Arachnophobia, trypophobia, discussion of the existence of free will, deliberately confusing statement, drug use, syringe mention, self-harm. |
148 | MAG 148 - Extended Surveillance | Eye trauma, physical violence, scopophobia. |
149 | MAG 149 - Concrete Jungle | Environmental disaster, minor body horror, getting lost. |
150 | Cul-De-Sac | Death, blood, isolation, surreal, human remains, self-harm. |
151 | MAG 151 - Big Picture | Threats of violence, falling, mention of mass drowning. |
152 | A Gravedigger’s Envy | Unreliable narrator, live burial, death/suicide contemplation, injury, graveyard, romanticisation of death. |
153 | MAG 153 - Love Bombing | Cults, emotional manipulation, body horror, unsanitary. |
154 | MAG 154 - Bloody Mary | Death (stabbing), domestic/spousal abuse, injury, self-mutilation, ableism (blindness). |
155 | MAG 155 - Cost of Living | Self-harm, infanticide, murder, near-death experience, eye gouging, seizure disorder, eugenicist rhetoric, ableism, blindness. |
156 | MAG 156 - Reflection | Cannibalism, fairground accidents, starvation, warped body image, eating disorder-like thought pattern. |
157 | MAG 157 - Rotten Core | Epidemic/mass infection, extreme body horror, emotional trauma, physical threats, isolation, syringe violence. |
158 | MAG 158 - Panopticon | Loud noises (including rock grinding)/static, violence (gun/monstrous), eye horror, extended gunfire, isolation, murder/death/loss. |
159 | MAG 159 - The Last | Emotional manipulation, sensory abuse (static), isolation, depression, mention of starvation, unhealthy family dynamic, abusive parents, parental neglect, disappearance, jumpscare [23:05], loud screaming, violent on-screen death. |
160 | MAG 160 - The Eye Opens | Apocalypses, eye horror, unreality, compulsion, mentioned animal death, shouting, jumpscare [25:55]. |
Season 5
Trailer | Unreality, major character with depression/deteriorated mental state, insects (snake sound effects, unknown species). Mentions of: food. | |
161 | MAG 161 - Dwelling | Isolation, apocalypses, unreality, emotional self-destruction (main character). Mentions of: food, not needing to eat to survive. |
162 | MAG 162 - A Cosy Cabin | Isolation, quarantine, post-apocalypse, unreality, emotional self-destruction (main character), body horror, suffocation. Mentions of: not needing to eat to survive, food. |
163 | MAG 163 - In the Trenches | Warfare, gunfire, explosions, loud noises, xenophobia (including antisemitic caricatures), medical trauma, graphic body horror (including trauma to eyes, tooth trauma), chemical warfare, medical malpractice, unreality, claustrophobia in a crowd, mention of needles, death by moving vehicle, being trapped, unsanitary, hunger/starvation, minor emetophobia, burning, cannibalism, jumpscare [04:07 on Spotify]. |
164 | MAG 164 - The Sick Village | Plague, graphic descriptions of rot/putrefaction, pandemic, quarantine, fungus and spores, xenophobia/racism, bigotry/mob justice, maggots and flying insects (inc SFX), dogs (inc SFX), self-harm, self-mutilation, human sacrifice, immolation and smoke, skin mutilation, body horror, imprisonment/restraint, nationalism, unsanitary. |
165 | MAG 165 - Revolutions | Loud/discordant SFX (circus music, quiet screams throughout, growling, audio distortion, glitching sounds, loud static squealing towards the end), mass pain, character death, major body horror, impostors, dissociation, skinning, hunting/being hunted, unreality, spatial distortion, use of the second person voice, emetophobia (minor), entrapment, minor animal harm, comparison of a person to food. |
166 | MAG 166 - The Worms | Survivor’s guilt, body horror, screams, claustrophobia, reported violence, dehumanisation, anxiety, suffocation, worms (inc SFX), explicit language, burial, entrapment, depression, self-blame, murder, death, scopophobia (discussed), revenge, determinism, insomnia, hunger, time distortion, themes of oppression, distorted audio, self-doubt, cannibalism. |
167 | MAG 167 - Curiosity | Manipulation, reported violence, immolation/death by fire, invasion of privacy, telepathy, fainting, mention of war-related trauma. Mentions of: unreality, revenge. |
168 | MAG 168 - Roots | Death, hypochondria/mysophobia, heart attack, mortality, cancer, convulsions, stabbing, falling, perceived medical neglect, smoking. |
169 | MAG 169 - Fire Escape | Landlord neglect and tenant abuse, on-screen death of a parent, health and safety violations, bedbugs/infestation, domestic toxicity (mentions), coughing/smoke inhalation (inc SFX), character death, burning, house fire, emotional distress, loud/sudden noises, death. |
170 | MAG 170 - Recollection | Isolation, depression, anxiety, depersonalisation and self-disorder, self-hatred, financial distress, elderly neglect, emotional/caregiver abuse (mentioned), neurological impairment/mental deterioration, instances of memory loss, funerals (mentioned), perceived abandonment, persistent droning (SFX), unreality. |
171 | MAG 171 - The Gardener | Major/graphic body horror, Character death, vocalised suffering and screams/pain (SFX), dysmorphia, anorexia, toxic beauty standards, unhealthy bodybuilding, plastic surgery addiction, body modification, mortality/existential dread, physical disorders/chronic illness, paralysis, self-harm/suicidal ideation, loud noises, noises descriptive of bodily harm. |
172 | MAG 172 - Strung Out | Emotional manipulation and abuse (including familial), body horror and wounding, supernatural manipulation, explicit language, addiction (including smoking and drinking), substance abuse (including implied opiate abuse), spiders (inc SFX), implied transphobia, humiliation, schadenfreude and forced laughter, maladaptive coping mechanisms and relapse, abuse of non-binary person, inability to speak, victim blaming, regret, loss of control of one’s body, mass suffering, doubt of one’s autonomy, paranoia. |
173 | MAG 173 - Night Night | Child harm, children in peril, screams (inc SFX), bullying, emotional abuse/neglect, darkness, isolation/helplessness, fear of graphic bodily harm (including cannibalism), perceived parental negligence, police mention, paranoia. |
174 | MAG 174 - The Great Beast | Insignificance/diminution, arguments, body horror, falling, dissociative amnesia, SFX of deep impacts/destruction/“pressure wave” distortion. |
175 | MAG 175 - Epoch | Body horror (inc animals), description of human remains, self-mutilation, futility/inconsequence, environmental disaster/eco-horror, pollution, water insecurity, existential and theological dread, unpleasant SFX (insects, squelching, sirens). |
176 | MAG 176 - Blood Ties | Explicit language, misogynistic language, hostage situation, victimisation/scapegoating, evisceration, blades, character death, SFX for gunshot, evisceration, panicked breathing. |
177 | MAG 177 - Wonderland | Arguments, relationship conflict, second-person point-of-view statement, hospitals/mental institutions, mental illness, gaslighting, mental health abuse, medical/therapeutic malpractice, victim blaming, diminution/belittling language, name invalidation, involuntary commitment, medication (including involuntary medication), suicidal ideation (implied), psychosis/unreality, paranoia, explicit language, threats, body horror, avoidance of facts, (SFX: screaming, high pitched tones, discordant music, medication (sounds of taking pills), violence), face mutilation, peeling of skin. Mentions of: death, police brutality, gore. |
178 | MAG 178 - The Processing Line | Dehumanisation, helplessness/existential dread, devaluation of human life, reduction of people based on ‘usefulness’, futility/inconsequence, body horror and torture, body image issues, medical horror, paralysis, arguments, police brutality (discussion of), claustrophobia, explicit language. Mentions of: enclosed spaces, needles/sharp objects, substance abuse, head trauma. SFX: persistent droning, high pitched tones, repetitive mechanical noises, sudden cracking sound, meat processing, insects. |
179 | MAG 179 - Accomplice | Prison and police brutality, fire and burning (inc SFX), trauma, human remains (inc blood), body horror, graphic animal attack (inc SFX), direct/gun violence (inc SFX), arguments, character death, grief, explicit language. Mentions of: child abuse, substance abuse, murder, kidnapping. |
180 | MAG 180 - Moving On | Second-person perspective, death and mortality, violence (inc SFX), undead (zombies), religious abuse, child abuse (descriptions of). Mentions of: knives, gaslighting. SFX: persistent droning. |
181 | MAG 181 - Ignorance | Dissociation, memory loss/mental deterioration, schadenfreude/vicarious embarrassment, suicide, alcohol, excessive drinking. |
182 | MAG 182 - Wellbeing | Hospitals, surgery (inc SFX), extreme medical malpractice, involuntary commitment and treatment, body horror, torture, character death, suicide (inc assisted)/suicidal ideation. Mentions of: mental deterioration, chronic pain, needles, stillbirth imagery, strokes, rot. SFX: screaming, high-pitched sounds, blades, drilling. |
183 | MAG 183 - Monument | Altered reality/spatial disorientation, futility/inconsequence, self-injury, body horror and wounding, physical violence/graphic injury (inc SFX). Mentions of: blood, murder, falling, isolation. |
184 | MAG 184 - Like Ants | Insects and infestation (inc SFX), claustrophobia, anxiety/panic/pleading, pain (inc SFX), trypophobia, non-consensual supernatural actions. Mentions: blood, body horror, crushing, loss, futility/inconsequence. |
185 | MAG 185 - Locked In | Prison (inc SFX), dehumanisation, wrongful imprisonment and victimisation, police brutality, uncertain memory and distorted time, abuse of power, physical violence, bullying, isolation, pleading, explicit language. |
186 | MAG 186 - Quiet | Depression and sadness, isolation, emotional manipulation, guilt and self-blame. Mentions of: mild body horror, emotional abuse, parental death, dysfunctional/toxic relationships (inc family), grief, ableism, discussion of suffering, death, murder and potential suicide. |
187 | MAG 187 - Checking Out | Sudden, loud SFX, emotional manipulation, bullying/taunting, gaslighting, disorientation (spatial and temporal), pleading, arguing, second-person POV, perceived child neglect (inc SFX), character death. |
188 | MAG 188 - Centre of Attention | Scopophobia, loss of privacy, judgement and shaming, schadenfreude, bystander apathy, therapeutic malpractice, body horror (inc SFX), eye trauma. Mentions of: grief/loss (discussion), gaslighting, loss of identity, insomnia, asthma attacks. |
189 | MAG 189 - Peers | Arguments, scopophobia, mass suffering, poverty and food insufficiency, guilt, political expediency. Mentions of: blood, self-inflicted wounds, physical violence, cults. coughing, yelling. |
Act III Trailer | Cults. Mentions of: apocalypse, scopophobia. | |
190 | MAG 190 - Scavengers | Cults, self-recrimination, emotional manipulation. Mentions of: therapy, innuendo, paranoia and anxiety, instances of memory loss, mild vicarious embarrassment, mild language, ableism, death, mass suffering, physical violence, murder, apocalypse. |
191 | MAG 191 - What We Lose | Cults, arguments, paranoia and anxiety. Discussions of: death and sacrifice. Mentions of: instances of memory loss/mental deterioration, scopophobia, self-hatred, mild language, murder, food. |
192 | MAG 192 - An Appointment | Compulsions (supernatural), emotional manipulation and gaslighting, mental disorientation, paranoia and self-doubt. Mentions of: scopophobia, worms (inc SFX), blackmail, gun violence, isolation, mild language, mass suffering, self-recrimination. SFX: screams, discordant static. |
193 | MAG 193 - A Stern Look | Paranoia and anxiety, emotional manipulation and gaslighting, compulsions (supernatural), spiders and arachnophobia, body horror and eye trauma, drug use (marijuana). Mentions of: death, apocalypse and mass suffering, instances of memory loss and identity crisis, blood, physical violence, human remains, classism, deceased parent, scopophobia, parental disapproval. SFX: discordant static and chanting, flies, retching. |
194 | MAG 194 - Parting | Arguments, body horror (inc flesh and gore SFX), self-inflicted wounds and body modification (inc SFX), explicit language, panic and emotional distress. Mentions of: alcohol, knives, death, funerals, mass suffering, suicidal ideation, emotional abuse, second-person POV, scopophobia, breathing difficulties SFX, physical violence, gaslighting, tumours/cancer. |
195 | MAG 195 - Adrift | Second-person POV, thalassophobia and drowning, suicidal ideation, mental disorientation (inc vertigo), futility/inconsequence. Mentions of: loss of time, scopophobia, cults, death, isolation, police, spiders, injury, nausea, mass suffering. SFX: extensive water sounds, coughing, crying. |
196 | MAG 196 - This Old House | Manipulation, altered reality, spiders, heights/vertigo (inc SFX). Mentions of: death, blackmail, war, knives, human remains, paranoia, body horror, live burial, children in peril, arson. SFX: harsh static, insects. |
197 | MAG 197 - Connected | Heights and vertigo (inc SFX), spiders (inc SFX), manipulation, body horror (inc SFX), threats, explicit language. Discussions of: altered reality, mass suffering, arson. Mentions: mental disorientation, kidnapping, death and murder, apocalypse, paranoia. SFX: Insects, high-pitched sounds, overlapping voices. |
198 | MAG 198 - Precipice | Heights/vertigo (inc SFX), falling, panic (inc breathing SFX), injury/pain (inc SFX), explicit language. Discussions of: emotional manipulation. Mentions of: arguments, death, self-hatred, lack of self-preservation, paranoia, pleading, kidnapping, alcohol. SFX: wind, creaking metal, screaming and suffering. |
199 | MAG 199 - Seeing it Through | Arguments, guilt and self-recrimination, smoking, strong language. Discussions of: altered reality, death and self-sacrifice, mass suffering and mass death. Mentions of: violence and murder, mental deterioration, manipulation, trauma, explosions. SFX: crying. |
200 | MAG 200 - Last Words | Character death, fire and explosions (inc SFX), vocalised suffering, building collapse, physical violence (inc SFX), pleading, arguments and crying, explicit language. Discussions of: death (inc mass death), mass suffering, existential dread. Mentions of: war, suicide, blood, alternative realities, blades. SFX: distorted static and voices, high frequencies, rumbling, continued clicking and thudding. |
MAG Roundtable - Making of Season 5 | Spoilers up to and including Episode 200. Explicit language. Discussion of: apocalypse and hellscapes, COVID-19 pandemic. Mentions of: anxiety and stress, hospitals, falling, fictional death, prisons. | |
MAG Retrospective - Crew Q&A | Spoilers up to and including Episode 200. Memory loss and loss of identity, drowning, unreality. Discussion of: supernatural experiences (inc mannequins), claustrophobia. Mentions of: nightmares, anxiety, spiders, burning, falling, COVID-19 pandemic. SFX: water sounds, grinding, high pitched sounds, wind. | |
MAG Retrospective - Crew’s Qs with Jonny & Alex | Spoilers for all of The Magnus Archives. Discussion of: smoking, physical violence, nuclear accidents, death, vertigo. Mentions of: unreality, panic, war, mould and rot, COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol. |