TV series

Penance

2012 · 1 season

A slow, oppressive psychological study of guilt and memory that lingers uncomfortably long after each episode.

Tagline: God may forgive you, but she never will.
Overview: The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, trauma, revenge, memory
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
trauma
revenge
memory
isolation
Places: small town
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild