[CONTENT WARNING]

CONSIDERING THAT CRIMINAL INTENTIONS IS serialized in the form of episodic novels akin to a television series, I think it’s safe to rate this using U.S. FCC television standards and mark it TV-MA. Criminal Intentions follows multiple homicide investigations and, at times, can graphically depict the act or aftermath of attempted or successful murder.

While it’s a given that a series about homicide investigations will describe actual homicides, it may be wise to review content warnings regarding the specifics of cases depicted in each episode.

Content warnings for Season One, Episode Seven, “Cult of Personality” include:

• Intent to die by suicide.
• Death by fall/jump from a height.
• Death of a female victim. (I’m not a fan of doing this, but sometimes in episodes that are basically commentary on white cishet male violence…yeah.)
• Death of a teenage minor.
• Discussions of drug use, addiction/cravings, rehabilitation, and recovery, including vivid personal memories of drug abuse.
• Intimations of gaslighting, brainwashing, grooming, and psychological abuse, including delusional/hallucinatory conditioned perceptions.
• Evidence of physical abuse.
• Intimations of cult behavior and religious indoctrination.
• Infantilization of women in a potentially sexual manner.
• Implications of kidnapping.
• Mention of PTSD and reference to feelings associated with a PTSD reaction.
• Mention of self-harm.
• Self-referential use of ableist terms cr*zy and l**ny bin.
• Depictions of imprisonment in inhumane conditions.
• Depiction of a perpetrator in a previous episode in psychiatric confinement, and implications of the effects of such confinement despite humane conditions.
• Mention of psychiatric medication.
• Misogyny inherent in the treatment of female victims.
• Explicit depictions of a brain-dead victim dying in hospital intensive care, including detailed clinical discussion of the medical condition.
• Discussions of post-traumatic behavior and feelings both as the survivor of homicide victims and the detectives conducting the investigations.
• Recollection of parental death by suicide.
• Discussion/recollection of a miscarriage and loss of a child.
• Discussion/recollection of the dissolution of a marriage and divorce.
• Mention of casual social/recreational alcohol consumption.
• Penetrative cis male/cis male sex.

Content warnings for the S1E8 preview include:

• Death of a female character.
• Death by gunshot wound.
• Misogynistic, violently possessive toxic male behavior.
• Threats against the safety of a child.

Content warnings for the afterword & acknowledgements include:

• Discussion of toxic, abusive relationships.
• Discussion of toxic masculinity.
• Discussion of mass killers and school shooters, including Dylan Roof and Elliot Rodger.

Please read at your discretion, and make whatever decisions are best for you regarding content that may or may not be safe for you.

Take care of yourselves, loves.

–C