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- Spoilers (17)
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Sex & Nudity
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- There is partial rear male nudity of prisoners while showering. These two brief scenes are the only male nudity in the series.
- For an audition at a strip club a woman is ordered by a man to remove her dress and stand fully naked for her nude body to be judged by the male staff. During this lengthy scene there is gratuitous full female nudity including breasts and buttocks with genital nudity narrowly avoided.
- A female stripper is photographed nude after an assault displaying breast and buttocks nudity. A female stripper is shown fully nude, (breasts & buttocks), in a tub while a clothed man forcefully injects her with drugs.
- There are sex scenes with female breasts and buttocks nudity. No male nudity is seen. Sex trafficking of females is also a topic, along with other mature themes such as the depiction of threesomes.
- There are many lengthy strip club scene with explicit female breast and buttocks nudity and graphic erotic dancing.
Violence & Gore
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- Multiple scenes of dead bodies, and seeing people get murdered
- Graphic depictions of strong brutal violence
- A prisoner responsible for the death of a child is forced by guards to walk through the halls of the prison while other inmates throw urine and feces at him. Later, he is chased through an open area and brutally beaten and stabbed to death by 3 groups of inmates. Very disturbing.
- Gang members release a pitbull into a car where the dog viciously tears apart the occupants. Bloody and brutal.
- 2 scenes of prison executions
- A woman's body is seen hanging from a bridge
- A man's body is discovered tied to a chair and submerged in a public pool. He is found by a young boy swimming in the pool. The body shows signs of torture.
Profanity
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- Lots of profanity, many uses of the F word throughout each episode.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Scene where a man forcibly injects a woman with drugs during a sex trafficking scene as she has a nervous breakdown about it. Very intense scene.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A child is shown playing in a trailer home with a meth lab in it. A burning cigarette falls to the ground causing the trailer to explode. Very upsetting. Later the child's burnt body is briefly shown.
- The entire storyline involving Iris (Emma Laird) is increasingly disturbing and hard to watch
- The entire tone and mood of this series is extremely bleak and harrowing. There are few, if any, lighthearted moments in the story.
- Almost every character in this series is violent, corrupt, or otherwise cynical.
- In season 2, there is a subplot involving a detective having a mysterious relationship with a serial killer in prison. The details of his crimes could be unsettling.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A man discovers a school bus buried in a field. It is later revealed to contain the cocooned corpses of nearly thirty victims of a serial killer.
- The commander of the Kingstown PD SWAT team is a former Special Forces operative who likely suffers from PTSD. He is shown to be a merciless killer, executing nearly every suspect his team encounters. He even shoots through a hostage to kill the hostage taker and calmly leaves while the injured woman is crying for help.
- In the first season finale, inmates overtake a prison. They viciously attack guards, take their weapons, and tie them up. A riot ensues in which dozens of inmates and guards are killed. A main character is brutally and publicly executed by an inmate gang leader. Later, SWAT officers and soldiers from the National Guard retake the prison. Inmates involved in the riot are mowed down by the dozens with machine gun fire. Well over 100 people are killed in this sequence.
- People are attacked and killed in prison, often in brutal ways. Examples include: a man burned to death in his cell, several shankings, a man is clubbed to death with a pillowcase full of rocks, a man is beaten savagely and has his groin stomped. After the attack, his bloodied crotch are shown up close while he has convulsions.
- During a police raid on a suspect's house, a detective is shot through a wall. His body flies across the hall and he is later shown in a pool of blood with his head blown apart. Quite graphic.
- Mike (Jeremy Renner) kills 4 neo-Nazi gang members in a house as revenge for abusing Iris (Emma Laird) This scene happens very unexpectedly and is extremely visceral
- A murder suspect is executed by a SWAT team. This scene is tense and shocking.
- A house full of people is shot up by gang members. Most of the shooting happens off screen but we hear screams and gunfire throughout. Later in the episode, there are said to be over 20 victims in total.
- A main character is shot in the head. Very sudden and unexpected.
- Some gang members attack Mike in his car while he is waiting at a train crossing. Mike kills all 3 gang members but barely escapes.
- Two detectives are shot at by a shop keeper / drug dealer. The detectives return fire, killing the shopkeeper. This scene is fairly tense.
- Mike routinely attacks and savagely beats Josef, a Russian mob henchman, to deliver messages to his boss. Josef is punched, has a glass broken over his head, and is pistol whipped many times.
- A female inmate seduces a male guard and lures him to a place outside of the view of the cameras. There, she initiates sex but stabs him in the neck multiple times with a pencil, killing. Lots of blood.
- After a riot, prison guards are said to have been raped with batons by the inmates who took them hostage
- An inmate has his hands chopped off by an industrial machine. The severed hands are shown on the machine as the man collapses in agony. Gory and intense.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- A woman forced into prostitution is beaten by her pimp. Her hand is broken with a hammer and she is punched multiple times. Later, she is sold by the Russian Mafia to neo-Nazis. She is injected with heroin and subjected to (what is implied to be) horrific sexual abuse by men and women. She is then sold again to the Bloods who are killed in a drive-by shooting in which she is finally rescued.
- One episode focuses on the search for a meth cook who accidentally caused an explosion that claimed the life of his stepson. The police and prison guards all openly conspire to catch the suspect and have him killed in prison. The suspect eventually turns himself in. In prison, he is subjected to many forms of degradation and humiliation before being brutally killed by the prison gangs on orders from the cops/guards. His fear, panic, and regret are all very hard to watch.
