Moderate
223 of 580 found this moderate
Frequent kissing heterosexual in the first couple of seasons.
The scenes can be a little intimate but they end before anything to explicit happens so there is nothing much to worry about.
Heated kissing between teens and references to "hooking up" for sex. Seduction.
There is moaning in the kissing scenes when they start to... But they end it with the kissing.
Majority of the episodes have teenagers making out, but there is no graphic nudity.
Girls are shown in underwear, but no explicit shots.
Most sex scenes involve a couple kissing and stripping down to their underwear. But the scenes cut away before anything happens.
A man continues to kiss a young woman's neck against a tree after she repeatedly tells him to stop. Another young man interrupts this scene, thus preventing it from going any further
Couples are seen but they are covered up with no nudity and nothing happens.
Clothes are torn off due to the vampires' superhuman strength. Nudity is only implied.
Moderate
166 of 306 found this moderate
One character rips the head and limbs off their victims though the act is not detailed.
Fantastical violence and conflict (including vampire attacks, torture scenes, bloody wounds and bites, and hand-to-hand combat that involves people throwing each other into buildings and out of windows, etc.) are part of every episode. Characters die.
A young woman hangs herself and is seen hanging dead for a few seconds.
Everytime a vampire feeds (drinks blood) blood is always shown around their mouth and the victim's neck. But the actual feeding is never shown.
A vampire chops a man's fingers off with a kitchen knife. Blood is shown. But the actual act is not shown only blood.
Vampires are tortured with vervain (extremely harmful to vampires) and their skin burns and turns red as they yell in pain.
Vampires rip hearts out but never too gory.
When a vampire gets killed, their skin turns grey and mutilated.
Many threatenings occur in this show.
There is often violence in this show, and blood is always shown, but it is not disturbing and usually only blood is shown after (fights or other), many torture scenes are featured.
Mild
220 of 308 found this mild
Occasional use of words like "crap," "jerk," "bitch," and "ass," along with offensive terms such as "tranny mess."
Uses of the words ass, bitch, bastard, damn, hell, dick and other mild words.
Moderate
143 of 272 found this moderate
Most main characters drink alcohol socially, even though they're underage. Some drink to the point of being drunk; rarely are there consequences. Some characters smoke cigarettes, one character struggles with a substance abuse disorder.
Quite strong but infrequent drug use in the first few series, but it dies down almost completely by later seasons.
One boy is a drug dealer and abuser and would be no older than 15/16 years old and he is shown getting high. But it's not too inappropriate or detailed and the scenes are brief.
Lots of drinking, mostly from underage teenagers.
One of the main characters drinks almost every episode and due to being a vampire his tolerance for alcohol is very high so it takes quite a but of drinking to get him drunk. This is more humorous and ironic than it is inappropriate or intense.
In season 6 a female vampire uses a hallucinogenic magic drug which allows her to see her dead boyfriend whilst under its influence and is seen using it quite a few times, but it is not inappropriate and is obviously supernatural.
Moderate
148 of 268 found this moderate
A lot of characters are killed, most of the death scenes are emotional.
The entire series features shocking and frightening scenes due to the supernatural elements that are vampires and other supernatural beings.
People are killed in brutal ways without much mercy; most of them are teens or young adults.
Many torture scenes are featured.