Parents guide

A male corpse is shown in a shower, you can see his backside.

(SEASON 1 EPISODE 1) This is probably the episode with the most sexual content of the series. Midway through the episode Walter and his wife are seen in bed together, Skylar makes some sex jokes while they are talking. Walter pulls up with DEA to do a drug bust, Walter sees Jesse jump out the window with his underpants on which is followed by a woman throwing out his clothes, she is only using her arm to cover her chest. Side breast nudity is seen for a brief moment.

(SEASON 1 EPISODE 2) The shows opens up where the first episode left off with Walter and Skylar in bed presumably after sex. We then see Walt's rear end when he leaves the bed.

(SEASON 1 EPISODE 3) Jesse makes out passionately with his girlfriend on a chair, this scene lasts 6 seconds. Not graphic.

(SEASON 3 EPISODE 5) This is the last Sexual Content to be seen in the series out of the 4 Instances. Jesses goes into a Bar with his Skinny Pete and while ordering drinks you can see woman dancing around a pole in the background. All though the scene is not focused on it, it is still clear what is happening. This is the most sexual scene of the show. It lasts for 3mins.

Walter appears multiple times in his underwear.

There are only four instances of Sexual content in the show other than some sexual jokes made by Hank and Saul.

There are four main sexual scenes in the entire show, they can be easily skipped and are not essential to the story. Also all four sexual scenes are never appeared out of nowhere and viewers can pick up when they are about to begin.

Most of the sexual content is in the first three episodes from then there is only one instance in Season 3.

The streaming versions (HBO, AMC+, Netflix) of Breaking Bad are much more tamer and toned down to the dvd and Blu ray versions. As the dvd versions have extended scenes of violence and sexual content as well as a 7min long bonus stripper scene. The streaming versions cut this all.

Many people are killed throughout in various ways, mainly shootings. There are crime scenes with bloody imagery. Gore is generally never shown and most of the people killed are with guns.

While violence does occur, it is not the focus of the show. Most of the violence in the show occurs in the first three episodes to hook viewers in.

There is a scene in Season 4 when Gus slits someone's throat, happens quickly and a small blood spurt is seen. This scene is censored on the streaming version. There is a quick scene of it.

The version of Breaking Bad on streaming services like HBO, AMC+ and Netflix are toned down in Violence and Sexual Content. As all the grisly imagery, extra sexual content and scenes are put on the dvd versions to serve as a 'directors cut' of Breaking Bad.

A man poisons multiple people at a party, the scene ends with a shoot out. Some blood can be seen.

An intense shootout takes place in a car park. Some blood is seen. One man is shot in the head from sniper.

The show mainly consists of shootouts with blood, but it generally happens towards the end of the season to prepare for a cliffhanger.

Moderate violence in the series, In season 1 after the third episode it starts to get less violent.

A man is shot three times and then he falls into a pool making the surrounding water a reddish colour.

Season 3 is the least violent season with only one shootout between Jesse and and salamanca twins.

Middle fingers are seen for a few times throughout.

"Jesus", "Christ" and "Jesus Christ" are said multiple times throughout the show.

27 uses of "fuck" throughout the whole series. "Fuck" is said 14 times in Season 1 (there is at least one or two F-bombs per episode), but is seldom used in the rest of the series. Once in Season 2 (episode 6), twice in Season 3 (episodes 3, 10), five times in Season 4 (episodes 2, 4, 9, 11) two are heard during a rap song and five times in Season 5 (episodes 3, 6, 7, 14, 15) one is heard during a film Walt watches with his son and another is seen written on a note.

Overall, the profanity in this show is pretty frequent.

Frequent uses of "shit" and "bitch".

Some strong language mainly used in Season 1.

Only one use of "fuck" is used in its full sexual context. A few uses are paired with "mother".

Homophobic slur "faggot" is used once in Season 1: Episode 1. Jesse also calls Walt a "homo" a few times in the first few seasons. Racial slur "chink" is used once in Season 2. "Retard" is said a handful of times in the show. "Whore" is used once in Season 2 and twice in Season 3. "Skank" is heard several times and even repeated multiple times during one episode.

The word "bitch" is often used, primarily by a main character.

Moderate amount of "hell", "damn", "crap" and "ass."

Jesse Pinkman is a drug addict.

Characters are seen smoking cannabis, smoking or snorting methamphetamine, injecting and smoking heroin, snorting cocaine, smoking cigarettes, and drinking alcohol. All of this is shown.

Breaking Bad shows the consequences of pervasive drug use.

Skinny Pete always wants a 'hit' of coke.

There is a party in the 4th season where characters drink, smoke marijuana and meth throughout 3 or 4 episodes.

Lots of scenes take place in methlabs and we see the creation of meth with a fictional recipe made up for the show.

Characters injecting heroin is shown.

The whole plot of the show revolves around a business dealing in methamphetamine. The usage and distribution occur very frequently.

Real meth recipes were used in the early seasons.

Frequent drug refrences and drug use throughout.

The main characters are constantly in perilous and intense situations in which some viewers may find the show anxiety inducing.

This show is very stressful and there is always tension.

The show contains high tension and death scenes of loved characters. There are also moments of drug use and moderate violence throughout.

The show contains depictions of frequent drug use and frequent violence.

The last 8 episodes and second half of Season 5 are the least graphic due to it being more focused on characters and tension except for the last 20 minutes of the final episode which does feature strong violence.

The show can be occasionally emotional.

A woman dies due to a drug overdose. As such, everything is shown onscreen.

The nursing home scene in Season 4 has by far the most intense scene in the show, as Gus's death is sad.

The show is incredibly intense and loved characters die all the time.

Main characters are in extremely tense situations nearly every episode with some scenes containing violence with blood in which the characters are emotional.