Multiple men are stabbed (blood and gore shown). Horrific and disturbing.
A man smashes another man's head onto a toilet multiple times. Very graphic his crushed head is shown briefly.
Generally contains strong, bloody violence including scenes of torture and medical settings. Some scenes are fairly graphic. There is a couple lobotomy scenes that go wrong, which can be disturbing
A man is boiled alive, to the point of almost death. We see graphic close up scenes of him escaping with skin sloughing off.
A guys arms are sawed/snapped off whilst he is conscious (although on drugs) - extremely graphic and bloody.
Two people have their eyes gouged with scissors while sleeping. One is partially offscreen while the other is briefly shown in graphic detail with the eyes gone (extremely gory and brutal).
Several priests are brutally murdered in the first five minutes of the premiere episode. Viewers see one man lying dead in a bathtub with his throat slit, and shortly afterward another man's head is smashed to a pulp against a toilet seat. The killer is Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock), who is subsequently arrested and sentenced to spend 120 days in Lucia State Hospital, the very same institution where Mildred Ratched has blackmailed her way into a nursing position.
TV-MA violence type: blood, gore, brutal and graphic.