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(2013–2016)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Sexual themes include sexual dissatisfaction, inability to perform for a variety of reasons, societal disapproval of various relationships, especially homosexual relations male and female, infidelity, teen sex, birth control, difficulty in conceiving a child, and more.
  • Contains occasional partial nudity and simulated sex scenes in many episodes. Some scenes of sexual activity are prolonged. Varieties include self- and mutual-masturbation, vaginal intercourse, and oral sex.
  • The sex and sexual dialogue included are typically handled with discretion and in a medical context.

Violence & Gore

  • A request for mild consensual sadism gets out of hand and becomes frightening.
  • Trigger Warning: There are references throughout many episodes to a violent father mentally and severely physically abusing a child. A reimagining of this occurs in a boxing match where a persons face is shown badly beaten and bloody.
  • Occasional brief scenes of vomiting.
  • Violence attributed to racism results in serious injury for one person. Occasional punches thrown in a few episodes, but short and not leading to serious injury.

Profanity

  • Uses of 'F*', 'Shit' as well as sexual slang. However, while profanity is used, it is often infrequent, and there are episodes without vulgar language at all.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several of the main characters are smokers. In many episodes, smoking is shown frequently. Alcohol is seen regularly, and characters are shown falling-down drunk on multiple occasions. Alcohol is depicted as frequently leading to unfortunate choices. Marijuana is used several times in the fourth season.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A scene of mild consensual sadism (spanking) gets out of hand and becomes frightening.
  • A scene simulating forced oral sex is shown in the Third Season.

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Sex & Nudity

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a dramatic scene of a pregnant woman bleeding followed by a stillbirth and the stillborn baby is shown.

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