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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (3)
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- Spoilers (7)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- There is prolonged full-frontal male nudity in a scene. It is non-sexual, but goes on for a while.
- Season 2 has a prolonged scene with close ups of 4 men's genitalia while urinating
- The female detective is seen in the shower. Her body is blurred by the shower door but bare back and side of breasts are visible.
- Season 2 features close-up shots of men's penises, unusually small, as a running gag is that they're misogynistic and frequently talk about disrespecting women.
- A story is told about Dutch security guards who are purposely dressed in skin-coloured shorts and blazer combos with bad haircuts so they'll be sexually unappealing to women.
- Prostitution and pimps are mentioned in passing.
- Myna's nanny tells her that no men can follow them because they're going into the ladies' public toilet.
- Entries with a lot of plot detail - if that is even needed here - should go in the spoilers section, especially if they identify the individuals involved!
- Nothing overly graphic, although there are some partial shoulder shots of women, phrases such as "dick", "pickle", and mentioning of John's father being attacked as a joke with an inflatable penis at a rock concert.
- Prostitution is mentioned.
- Alice records what is implied to be a sex tape of sorts, an audio recording for John to remember her when he's "in bed" (it is later just revealed to be an audio recording of Alice snoring loudly).
- Sex is implied between male and female characters but never really displayed graphically on-screen.
- When picking through the used trash cans at motel rooms, Detective Albans mentions the possibility of there being "used condoms" in the bathroom cans.
- Men use urinals, including a very bizarre outdoor urinal in Luxembourg which is a circle of multiple urinals in a busy public park.
- John and Icabod hug each other after Icabod explains to John that he wasn't trying to be a creep by calling him a "liar". Lacroix catches them hugging and remarks "wow." implying that he believes them to be in some sort of relationship (they're not really).
- It is said that Leslie has an "illegitimate half-Vietnamese son".
- The majority of what would be considered "sexual" in nature in this show (as of Season 1) is mostly just innuendo and loosely implied instances, which chances are the majority of younger viewers would not pick up on.
Violence & Gore
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- A man hits himself in the head with a sock stuffed full of European dimes, knocking himself out.
- A convenience store owner is shot; his body lies on the floor.
- Numerous men, most unnamed, are shot and killed in season 2.
- Leslie wanders around with a bloody nose after redeveloping his cocaine addiction in season 2. This frightens his grandson and a policeman. Closeups of the character's bloody nose and bloodstained beard are seen.
- Leslie tries to chop of his grandson's hair with a knife.
- Schoolgirls at a home for troubled youth play a game of "Mercy" (where one twists the other party's arm backwards to see how long they can go without screaming "mercy!")
- John has his teeth pulled; three bloody teeth are seen on-screen.
- Myna's nanny is hit in the head with the door of a public toilet stall; Myna herself is then kidnapped, but unharmed. The nanny is later seen alive, albeit with a large bruise on her forehead.
- A female police detective is hit in the head by a convenience store shelf numerous times, blinded and later seen needing a guide to help her get wherever she has to go.
- An overweight bearded man plans a suicide and is seen tying a noose by way of an instructional video.
- A man named Birdbath acts violent, mean and crass, for instance getting John to steal the prosthetic legs of war vets as part of a secret plan.
- Guns are often pictured onscreen, including in the reoccurring intro montage of super 8 home movies, which displays a little boy firing a gun (the little boy is supposed to be John). Knives are also sometimes seen. A French police officer carries a machine gun.
- Three of the characters are to drop a heavy safe from a hotel window high above the ground, but contemplate on the possibility that it might hit someone on the head (it doesn't).
- The subject of murder is often discussed and there is an interrogation scene in which a murder is brought up.
Profanity
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- The language in season 2 escalates to uses of "pussy", "shithole", "pimp", "motherfucker", etc. At one point foul language is directed towards a small orphaned child; adult characters tell him (in Romanian) that he has a "fucked up face", making him run away crying.
- Many instances of extreme profanity, vulgar/lewd phrases, including "asshole", "bitch", "son-of-a-bitch", "penis", "fuck", "damn", "goddamn it", "god", "oh my god", "oh lord", "jesus", "kick his ass", "dick", "pickle (as a euphemism for penis"), "jerk", "idiot", "sex", "hooker" and "piss".
- Verbal yelling and non-profane insults at times, including John making fun of Steven and Icabod for various reasons.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Leslie goes back to cocaine after being clean and sober for years. He wanders around with a grotesque bloody nose, drinks a whole bottle of wine, and tries to cut off his grandson's hair.
- John develops an addiction to prescription painkillers in season 2.
- Many instances, including Leslie losing his own company for embezzlement to fuel his cocaine addiction, drinking of various forms of alcoholic beverages and cigarette smoking.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The murder scenes and profanity might upset younger viewers.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Some instances of murder and John attacking people, including tying up a man and zipping him up in a large duffle bag, men being stabbed (blood is seen here), pushing Steven in front of a moving truck (which gives Steven brain injury that causes him to do embarrassing things), again pushing Steven over a tree stump in the woods, "accidentally" shooting Leslie in the face (he doesn't kill him but he injures him in this case), causing a cop with PTSD to have a nervous breakdown (meant to be comical), grabbing a dwarf cop and stuffing him in a locker (also meant to be comical), among other more minor instances. He with his fellow employees is later interrogated but never caught.
- Characters go duck hunting together. Dead ducks are seen coated in blood and held up by their feet. Later on, John looks visibly horrified to find that one of the ducks he has shot is still alive and suffering, but he says nothing to his colleagues.
- John and his friend are shot; John loses two fingers and gets shot in the foot, while his friend loses three fingers. We see the severed fingers on-screen, and blood. A reluctant veterinarian is ordered to sew them back on.
- Icabod tells John that a gypsy boy playing the accordion on the street for money is being forced to by the pimp trafficking him. John intends to shoot the pimp, but accidentally loses his aim and shoots the little boy instead, shocking Beatrice and Icabod, who are watching.
- John tells his father that he might have some "loose ends to tie up", after which he mentions Leslie, Icabod, Steven and Lacroix, implying that he might have to "dispose" of his friends since there's a possibility that they'll discover who he is.
- Lacroix is stabbed but later on befriends John and helps him with his work.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Throughout the show, John displays signs of a near mental illness and shows little remorse for his harm toward innocent people, but this later catches up with him when he befriends his colleagues from the piping company. He tries to hide his secret work from them so he doesn't have to hurt them should they get involved, especially Lacroix, Icabod and even Leslie, but when Steven and Icabod start suspecting him of having lied about who he is, he finds it increasingly difficult not to plan to be rid of them. His actions start getting more irresponsible and dangerous, to the point where he even shoots Leslie in the face.
