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World Without End contains some male and female nudity (plenty of male chests, very few male backsides, rare female breasts), some scenes of sexual intercourse with some movement and moaning (some with a little nudity), many scenes of sexual abuse/rape. Incest, homosexuality, flirting, and sexual references are all present. The sexual situations are plentiful but not strong in nature (with the exception of the rape ones), and the nudity is overall mild and not graphic. Many of the scenes in this section are certainly more irksome than sensual.

Themes such as marriage, infidelity, and having children are involved. Several women are forced to marry men they do not love and who mistreat them.

Some kissing throughout.

A girl is raped by her husband. He roughly grabs her, slams her on the table, and starts thrusting from behind, all while she says "no" and cries (no nudity is seen).

A young woman is raped by a young man while another man holds her down and laughs. There is no nudity, but we see him thrusting above her while she cries and says "no". Afterwards she is found crying, terrorized, and bruised, with messy clothes. Later on a man says she was examined and was found to be "torn and bruised".

A young man has a sexual interest on his female cousin. His mother makes a reference to him always wanting to take a bath with his cousin when they were little. In one scene, the young man enters her bedroom as his cousin is sleeping, opens her shirt and touches her breast, visibly excited (in the uncensored version, nipple is visible); she wakes up and he leaves. In another scene, he is seen sniffing on a dress, belonging to his cousin, while lying naked in bed (his butt is not seen). In another scene, he masturbates in front of his cousin. Both are fully clothed and no detail is seen, we only hear mild noises of him stroking his penis while moaning. When he climaxes, she makes a remark about how quick he was.

A man sexually molests his daughter twice. He gropes her breasts and tries to have sex with her, telling her "camon, it's only a hump". We never see him succeed, but it is mentioned that he did rape her in the past while being drunk.

A man and a young woman have sex in the fields. They kiss plenty and start removing/opening up their clothes. The scene ends (no nudity or intercourse is seen). Afterwards we see them lying together, partially unclothed (the man's upper buttocks are seen).

A girl and a young man make love in bed while kissing passionately. Little moaning and mild movement. No graphic nudity, only her legs and his back are shown.

A man enters a man's bedroom and discloses a young girl hiding behind the bed's curtain, revealing that he knew about their affair. The young girl is naked but covering herself with the sheets (we only see her legs). It is implied they were having sex.

World Without End contains lots of medieval violence, including executions, hanging, poisoning, black plague, battle scenes, revolts, swordfights, fistfights, suicide, and rape. There is also a lot of scenery that includes corpses. War is involved, but only a few times pictured. In many occasions, characters risk to be hanged (or killed in other ways), and are saved at the very last moment. Some characters kill members of their own families. Many of the scenes in this section are either emotional, upsetting, or both.

Two despicable, evil, scheming characters in particular kill a lot of people, relatives included, for their own sinister purposes and interests, and another character is a very violent, bloodthirsty young man who enjoys killing, fighting, and raping.

Women are severely abused and mistreated throughout, both verbally and physically. Witchcraft is one of the themes of this series, and some women are seen or said to be hanged or burned at the stake, accused of being witches.

Many people are hung onscreen. Almost all of these scenes are very upsetting.

Many people are ill with black plague, and some of them spew blood violently and seize before dying. The large black papules on their bodies are seen.

There are several sword fights throughout.

Some fistfights and brawls are also present.

A couple of war/battle scenes, in which many people are graphically stabbed to death, sliced with swords, hit with axes, and pierced with arrows, and have their throaths sliced. Lots of dead people, as well as horses, are seen on the ground.

A man has an arrow pierced in his arm. A man later extracts it from his bloody arm as he screams in pain (graphic).

A man has his arm amputated with a cleaver. The cutting is not shown as he screams in pain, but we see his severed arm.

World Without End has a fair amount of profanity and rude language, but nothing particularly strong.

Rare uses of the F-word.

"Damn", "Hell" and "Bastard" are heard.

Other profanities, including derogatory terms towards women ("Bitch" and "Whore"), are also heard.

A dead woman is seen hung with "Whore" written on a sign placed on her body.

Several uses of Jesus' and God's names.

Some sexual references.

Two churchmen have a homosexual romantic relationship, and one confesses his love to the other. Two nuns agree that even if it is a mortal sin, they are good people, and if it's for love, they wonder if God really cares. In another scene, the same two nuns kiss eachother; one remarks that if it's done for love, God doesn't mind. Both scenes might upset religious or homophobic people.

A nun says "what if God was only a story we made up, just to have some comfort?" and cries. Her faith in God weakens throughout the series, but ultimately does not expire.

One of the main characters is a mad churchman who does awful things to innocent people in the name of God and Christianity.

Some wine drinking, from mild to moderate.

A man is said to have raped his daughter when drunk.

Many intense and/or violent scenes.

The black plague scenes are intense and the papules are gross-looking.

Sudden deaths happen frequently in this series. Many characters' deaths are emotional and sad.

Several scenes are extremely upsetting to watch. This includes: all the scenes involving rape or sexual abuse; a girl being sold by her father for a cow; a man having both legs broken with a large hammer; certain characters being hung; people being forced or threatened to do something; a dog being poisoned and killed by a man; all the scenes involving three specific characters who do horrible things to others.