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(2004–2006)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Some episodes also include full frontal female nudity
  • Several scenes takes place in town brothels where lots of sexual activity takes place and nudity is shown sometimes.
  • Sexual references and slurs are used.
  • Some nudity and sexual content, including infrequent verbal references. Sexual content is infrequent and not graphic.

Violence & Gore

  • When violence does happen it is very brutal, bloody, and often disturbing.
  • There are a lot more deaths and violence with knives and beatings than with firearms.
  • Scenes of people's throats being slit, stabbed and maimed
  • The violence is presented in a very gritty manner and when shown, is often graphic and realistic.
  • A man smashes another man's skull with a large rock.
  • Strong bloody violence. A lot of stabbing and throat slitting, brutal beatings, and shootings.

Profanity

  • "Cocksucker" is said 280 times throughout the show.
  • Racial slurs are used in profane terms as well.
  • In the first episode alone, "Fuck" is used 55 times. Episode Three uses the word the least out of them all, with only 26 uses.
  • As the show progresses, the language becomes increasingly severe and so does the profanity.
  • Non-stop explicit profanity all throughout the series, typical for HBO standards. Throughout the entire show, "Fuck" is said 2,980 times, and Cocksucker is said 280 times. Words like "Cunt" are also extremely common to hear in the series.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman is seen taking opiates infrequently throughout the show.
  • Drug dealing is a minor component to the story.
  • There is heavy drinking and smoking. Hard drugs are not included at all.
  • Whisky and other spirits are heavily consumed in the saloon regularly. Many characters also smoke cigars and cigarettes casually.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This show has some instances of graphic violence but overall it is a quiet drama that is very much dialogue driven.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Two teenage hustles are severely beaten, tortured and killed in graphic detail.
  • A man has his eyeball violently ripped from its socket in a brutal fight. He is then beaten to death with a log.
  • A psychotic serial killer commits a massacre at a brothel.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • In the first season some men try to manipulate a woman into selling her land by getting her high

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