How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series 2014–2020) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • In the first episode one character walks in on another character having oral sex with a man. There is no nudity, all we see is the woman giggling and then the man stands up revealing they were having sex.
  • In season 2 episode 3 The whole episode is revolved about a sex house. there are lots of sexual innuendos about orgasms and sex
  • In season 3, there is a scene were a man is very obviously performing oral sex on a woman. He lifts his head from between her legs (as she is moaning) to answer his phone and later angles his head back between her legs once he hangs up. Relatively graphic scene considering it is a network TV show.
  • The first two episodes have vivid homosexual sex scenes.
  • The show's sexual content is strong for a TV-14 network show: sex scenes with moaning and movements between same and opposite sex couples throughout (but no nudity) a lot of this are hook ups, and include oral sex (mostly implied) and other positions. There's also strong sex talk/dialogue, and graphic descriptions to sexual acts such as orgasms and other terms. Some crimes are related to sexuality, such as rape, incest, and illicit affairs.
  • Frequent male topless nudity.
  • There are gay sex scenes. Not graphic and very little nudity
  • Language discussing sex acts or sex references
  • Some episode has strong sexual situations.
  • Some sex scenes are not too graphic and have very little nudity.

Violence & Gore

  • Violence gets more strong and graphic as the series progresses: bloody corpses, murders (of course) suicide, implied torture, and emotional deaths. A viable amount of blood and gore is shown.
  • One of the main characters is tortured and almost killed in the last season of the show. Although most of the violence is offscreen, the bloody result is shown and can be quite disturbing.
  • Some episodes contain quite a bit of violent murder, but only one such is all that gory. We see a dead character on the floor with a lot of blood pooling from his head. These scenes repeat in flashes, each one showing more of the scene. We also see a character with a bloody wound on their midsection on the floor after hearing a gunshot. They are shown gasping for air in close-ups, with some traces of blood on the wall. This scene is also shown in the form of repetitive flashes, each giving more details about the scene.
  • Tortuous murder is depicted. The scenes are played more than once. We see a man strangle a woman while she fights for her life. We also see a character murder another character by placing and tightening a plastic bag over the victim's head while the victim sits tied to a chair. This scene is played out several times, each time showing more. The viewer sees the victim begging and pleading, clearly sees her sucking for air inside the plastic bag as she slowly suffocates. We also see repetitive scenes of one character with a bloody midsection wound showing closeups of her face as she gasps for air; and repetitive scenes of one character lying dead on the floor with a bloody bashed-in head.

Profanity

  • Their favorite word seems to be bitch. There does not seem to be an overflow of curse words. So far the F-word has not been used.
  • "Bitch," "ass," "whore," "damn," and "hell" are intermittently said.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One character is an alcoholic.
  • Drug addicted characters present.
  • People are drunk in some episodes and alcohol is shown in every episode

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some cases can be very disturbing for young audiences and battles sad cases (rape, incest, murder etc.)
  • In an episode a character loses her baby and she carries her dead baby in her arms. This scene can be very upsetting to viewers.
  • The flashbacks are intense.
  • Some clients can be scary and/or weird.
  • Some more sensitive viewers could be disturbed by the murder (see Violence/Gore).
  • The somewhat frequent mention of rape and occasionally incest could be upsetting to some viewers.

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