Broadchurch is not a very violent show. Most of the shows frightening and intense scenes are from dramatic, often very sad, personal, and sometimes angry conversations and confrontations.
The main focus of the show revolves around detectives trying to solve the murder of an 11-year-old boy. The murder is eventually shown.
Many of the characters suffer from great mental anguish.
We see a boy standing on the edge of a cliff breathing heavily and looking down with blood dripping from his fingers.
View of a dead body.
Many instances of family distress.
A raging father, and other men threaten other characters.
A woman threatens another woman that she can have someone rape her
A mother tells a priest and her husband that she'll be willing to have men rape her to get her son back
An animal is threatened.
One character briefly begins to attack another by kicking and shouting at them.
The whole show revolves around child murder and can be emotionally and thematically intense. Scenes in which people are killed are especially disturbing.