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Date: 2014-08-13 01:44 am (UTC)PD has some jump scares, some bugs, and a lot of blood, not all of it gory per se (TB coughing blood, for example), a little bit of totally disgusting gore, and some animal harm. I find it more sexy than scary most of the time.
It does have a major plotline about possession and religious guilt. In context, Vanessa does not feel particularly victimized to me. The show does well on gendered violence and male gaze stuff, much better than most horror IMO. Vanessa ends up in a mental institution at one point, but it's a flashback, so I never have the sense that the character is going to turn into a permanent vegetable or be mindwiped, and it's reasonably clear which characters are good/bad in which ways. This isn't one of those shows where the woman gets gaslighted or she has to figure out which seemingly-friendly man from her normal life is actually her creepy stalker. I find the show kind of fluffy and hopeful overall, despite its tour through many different kinds of horror squicks. The name is aptly chosen: it's more about providing lurid shocks than about trying to leave you feeling creeped out.