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- Sex & Nudity (20)
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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (3)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (5)
- Spoilers (5)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Episode 4: An executioner references intercourse while telling a man that he is to be castrated.
- Episode 1: Two flashbacks from a girl's point of view: one of a man leaning over her bed and flirting with her and tickling her, and another of the same man cutting the front of her skirt with a knife in a flirtatious/playful way. Nothing is shown (nudity or otherwise) but much is implied.
- A man mentions that a woman is "ripe for the marriage bed."
- A man peeps through a door at a woman dressing (no nudity is shown).
- Episode 2: A married couple kisses.
- There is frequent flirting between an married man and an unmarried woman.
- An unmarried couple kisses; it is known that the man is married to another woman.
- A man mentions that anyone who marries a certain girl would "have the warmest bed in England."
- Episode 3: A man flirts with a woman, somewhat passionately.
- A man and a woman flirt in a play.
- A woman has a medical examination to see if she can bear children; doctors lift her skirt for the examination and she cries out; nothing is shown.
- Several suggestive references in multiple conversations.
- People speculate about a wedding night.
- A man says that a particular woman's bed will "keep you warm and dry".
- A man and woman are seen together in bed; they are covered in blankets at the beginning of the scene, though it is clear that neither of them are wearing anything; later the woman is seen nude from behind; a number of suggestive comments are made during the scene.
- A carving of a nude man from the waist down is visible in the background of one scene.
- A man is seen wearing nothing but a sheet around his waist; later in the scene he is seen from the side wearing nothing.
- A man says he wants to see both a woman's legs, "and not very close together."
- An unmarried man and woman kiss.
- This episode has much more suggestive content than the first two episodes.
Violence & Gore
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- Episode 4: A bloody and semi-delirious man is shown chained to a wall after being tortured, while the chief executioner taunts him about how much more pain he will experience before being executed.
- Episode 4: Significant splashes of blood are shown on the ground after an off-screen execution.
- Episode 4: Elizabeth intentionally humiliates a man who has gastrointestinal illness that causes external bleeding, openly describing the symptom in various ways, such as "bleeding like a maid."
- Episode 4: Elizabeth explicitly describes a scenario of maggots eating various parts of a man's body, such as his brain, after he dies.
- Episode 1: Two men are seen lying on the ground with severed arms (the arms are seen lying on the ground nearby). A small amount of blood can be seen.
- Decapitated heads are displayed on spits on top of a wall.
- Episode 2: little/none
- Episode 3: little/none
Profanity
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- Episode 1: At least 5 uses of "God" (some as religious exclamations), 1 of "wh*re" (used literally), and 3 of "ba****d" (also used literally)
- Episode 2: At least 5 uses of "God"
- Episode 3: At least 3 uses of "devil", at least 5 uses of "d*mn*, at least 5 uses of "God", "cur", "go to hell"
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Episode 2: Two men drink wine from golden goblets.
- A sick woman drinks a liquid that can be assumed to be alcoholic.
- Episode 3: A man pours another man a drink.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Episode 5: Elizabeth screams and throws things at a man, who falls down as a result.
- Episode 2: A married couple fights.
- A sick woman gives a speech; her voice is weak, and it is clearly difficult for her to speak.
- A few cases of smallpox are shown, with associated scarring and pox. One case in particular results in most of a woman's face being pocked and scarred.
- Episode 3: A man threatens another man with a sword.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Episode 4: A woman is beheaded, and the camera holds on the shot of her severed head laying next to her body for an extended amount of time.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Episode 4: An executioner taunts an imprisoned man about the various torture methods that have been ordered for him, including castration and evisceration, to which the man begs and cries for mercy.
- Episode 2: A woman is shown dead on the floor with her eyes open. There is no blood, and it is implied that she fell down the stairs. When she is discovered, one woman cries, while another woman laughs and states that she believes the dead woman's husband killed her.
- Episode 1: A sick boy is seen with open sores on his head. He dies.
- A woman runs screaming down the hallway clutching her pregnant stomach, wailing about the dead child within her; we later learn that it was a tumor and she was not pregnant in the first place. Nothing graphic, but it may be disturbing to some viewers.
