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(2012–2016)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A topless body is seen out of focus in the background. Photos of women with exposed are seen. Women with exposed breasts are seen posing for photos.
  • A nude male corpse is seen far off, frontal nudity. A woman lies naked on a couch. Her back is seen, but no breasts or buttocks.
  • A fully nude female corpse lies on a table. Her breasts are seen multiple times, both far away and up close.
  • A nude female corpse is seen on a table.
  • Episode specific identifiers have been removed.
  • Frequent mentioning of sexual topics (a brothel is featured in almost every episode). Mostly not graphic, but obvious sexual scenes (like woman under a blanket, out of camera's range, man expresses his pleasure etc.), mostly featuring prostitutes. Some violent scenes involving rape or murder during intercourse. Nude scenes involving dead people (e.g. autopsy).

Violence & Gore

  • A horse is shot and killed.
  • Very heavy violence, both directly depicted and discussed in detail by characters. (E.g. mutilation, murder, mental abuse, rape, brutal fights etc.)
  • Features two scenes of fist fights, involving blood.
  • A man is forced to hang himself but is rescued barely in time.
  • A man commits suicide, his slit wrists are seen and blood dripping on the ground.
  • A dead woman is seen multiple times, she has a slit throat and cross slits on her eyes (nothing overly graphic).
  • In a film, we see bits of a woman being strangled while possibly during a sexual act. The man tries to reinact it with another woman.
  • We see a dead man on a table, he has bloody cuts on his face where he was beaten with a belt.
  • A boy is seen with bloody cuts on his face, it is presumed that he was beaten by a croud. He is later slapped.
  • During an autopsy, we see blood on the table and a bucket of blood beneath. We soon see that the man's tongue is cut out. Nother overly detailed or graphic.
  • While watching someone being hanged, a man graphically explains what happens during the process of the hanging. We see the body drop and hang, but a piece of wood blocks the view from the person.
  • A series of young boys are in a gang, we see them carry around weapons throughout.
  • Two men fist fight, one of the men repeatedly beat him and then grabs his belt. We later see the man's dead body, killed the same way as the first dead man.
  • A woman fights multiple men, she is punched a few times. A man's gun shot interupts. A man is hit with a pipe.
  • A group of young boys beat two men. The two men fight them back often by punching them.
  • Two men fight, one of them using a belt. The one man tries to stab the other but is hit in the head, blood is seen.
  • A woman is punched.
  • A man is shot, some blood sprays from the impact. Blood is seen coming from his mouth.

Profanity

  • A good amount of the characters frequently use foul language. Usually no f-word or such but still can be strong here and there.
  • Season 3 has some f-words, the last episode has multiple f-words consecutively.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Frequent smoking. Frequent drinking and some drunk scenes. Mentioning and sometimes featuring drug-use (e.g. amphetamin and opium).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Violence & Gore

  • Involves the murder of prostitutes, one of which is murdered during a sexual act by strangulation

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