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Sex & Nudity

  • A soldier is awakened by a fluid being poured on him. It's revealed that it was his own urine.
  • A soldier is shot in the rear, this becomes the subject of many jokes in the next episode.
  • A man and a woman are having sex. You can see the women's breasts and the boys rear.
  • There is occasional sexual banter throughout the series. No visuals though. Just cursing each other out of friendship.
  • While doing bunk checks, the commanding officer finds what appears to be pornographic magazines.
  • We see very very brief male rear nudity and side nudity when soldiers are shown showering in a temporary facility. Camera is panning to the right and a man's buttocks pass by.
  • A different soldier is shown having noisy sex in the home of a local woman. Her breasts are shown from the side, then we see his buttocks when they flip positions. There is squeaking, thrusting, moaning, etc., then they're interrupted when the soldier's commanding officer enters the room, after which we see half of the bare soldier's buttocks .

Violence & Gore

  • The series is full of very intense and realistic battle sequences. Men get shot with bloody results and endure gruesome injuries. There are a handful of grisly and bloody images that are very detailed.
  • Some of the most realistic war violence ever put on television. Amputations secondary to explosion, gunshots, hand to hand combat, etc.
  • Many people are killed from explosions leaving their bodies in pieces.
  • People are shot constantly with varying levels of blood spraying.
  • A field medic and a nurse are trying to save a man that has a six inch hole blown through his stomach (The camera angle is in a position where the hole isn't shown). This scene goes on for about a minute. The man is coughing up blood.
  • The soldiers find a concentration camp. This sequence shows many prisoners lying on the floor. They have a bit of blood on their clothes. Most of them are dead.

Profanity

  • Some episodes contain about 7/8 uses of 'fuck' but most episodes contain between 3 and 6 uses.
  • Episode 1: 4 F-words.
  • Episode 2: 8 F-words.
  • Frequent uses of "fuck" and "shit". Also used are "ass", "damn" and other mild profanities, used generally in every episode.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • References to drugs such as painkillers and morphine however it is centred around a medical context.
  • Some drinking and smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a lot of graphic war violence. This can be disturbing.
  • An entire episode revolves around a concentration camp and can be very upsetting and disturbing.
  • Due to the near constant fighting and explosions there are very few scenes that don't have a sense of tension or dread hanging over them. Very intense throughout.
  • People who were impacted by the Holocaust and World War II will find some scenes extremely realistic, frightening and, depressing.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman who was flirting with an American soldier is forced in the center of a crowd and her clothes ripped, exposing her undergarments. Her hair was cut with scissors as she began to cry and plead. It's mentioned that it was punishment for having sexual relations with a German soldier, many other women experienced the same humiliation.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The concentration camp scene is very realistic and graphic and very disturbing scene that viewers and families and victims of the holocaust may find frightening.

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