Parents guide

Season 1: Underage sex acts involving a teen female & two older males is vividly discussed. A young female displayed in a skimpy bra & thong sexually caresses her exposed body & bare buttocks while looking in a mirror & offering anal sex to her middle age male lover on the phone. Half sibling incest is heavily implied & depicted via a male fondling a female's clothed breasts, manually stimulating her genitals under her skirt & having sex off screen with explicit audio heard.

Season 1: Every Intro displays sexualized female breasts & buttocks nudity with sexualized female imagery. A middle aged married male has graphic sexual affairs with females half his age that feature explicit & exclusive full female nudity. An explicit sex scene between a husband & wife displays more exclusive female breasts, body & buttocks nudity with female camera body shots. One explicit sex scene shows both female & male buttocks nudity.

Season 1: Naked female breasts, pubis & buttocks of graphical raped & murdered victims are explicitly shown. Females are displayed in revealing clothes & scantily clad including a scene opening with a zoomed in camera shot of a female's buttocks in tight transparent panties while she's sleeping. Many Strip Clubs scenes feature extended sexualized nudity of several female Strippers performing erotica with close camera body shots of nude female breasts, bodies & buttocks.

Season 4: Some nonsexual male corpse nudity, obviously fake.

Season 2: Graphic full female nudity is featured via the viewing of porn with both genitalia & penetration explicitly shown. Full frontal female nudity with sexualized imagery is displayed on Porn Web Sites. Strip Clubs scenes feature both explicit full female nudity & erotica.

Season 2: Female nudity is shown of a female swimming. A female performs oral sex on a male. A male & female discuss IVF.

Season 2: A woman shows her breasts. A woman talks about liking big dicks.

Season 2: Topless female nudity & intense kissing between male & female in bed. Females and males are also shown in varying degrees of undress: shirtless men, scantily clad women in skimpy panties, bras & lingerie and braless in revealing attire.

Season 2: There are more scenes of brutal violence such as beatings, shootouts, and stabbings.

TV-MA violence type: blood, gore, brutal and graphic.

Other violence in the series is limited to intense moments and discussions of violent crimes.

There's a short, concise torture sequence comprised of a man's hand being pierced by a nail, and then another being forced into his shoulder. The scene is not overtly intense, but handled with a degree of casualness which emphasizes his evident distress.

In the beginning, a murder victim is found dead with his eyes burnt away by acid. He's later shown to have had his genitalia blown away at point blank range by a shotgun blast. There is a graphic closeup of the wound which only lasts for a mere second.

A short, though brutal fight transpires between two men in which blows are exchanged and the intensity increases as one of the men begins to take the upper hand. The fight ends with one man's face bloodied and the other removing a grill that says "Fuck You" with pliers.

"Cunt" is said once or twice throughout the whole series

The "N-word" is used multiple times in the first season.

276 uses of fuck in season 1.

Frequent uses of "fuck", "shit", and other profanity with their variations throughout each episode

Hard drugs such as cocaine, and methamphetamine are frequently discussed.

A character goes on a massive alcohol and cocaine binge in one episode.

In another episode, a character does cocaine and a little bit of heroin.

Some shootout scenes take place in drug labs or areas where drugs are being sold and used.

Frequent alcohol consumption. Constant cigarette smoking. Murder victims are said to have consumed LSD and methamphetamine. A man uses speed and MDMA to stay awake. A man buys quaaludes and barbiturates. A man drinks a whole bottle of dextromethorphan. Multiple characters snort cocaine and smoke methamphetamine. A man is forced to snort cocaine with an unknown dissociative cut. A man suffers recurring hallucinations and synesthesia due to prior stimulant and hallucinogen abuse.

Constant smoking and drinking throughout.

True Detective deals with crime-related topics that could be upsetting to some viewers.

The shows look at crime investigation is extremely violent and kind of stomach wrenching.

The TV series is intended for people 18 over due to strong violence, bloody images, torture scenes, strong sex scenes, nudity, a lot of profanity, alcohol use and drug use.

Season 1: Recommended Age 17+ for grisly/disturbing images, some strong violence, strong sexual content, drug use, graphic nudity, and language throughout.

Season 2 contains disturbing content including bloody violence, some graphic sexuality/nudity, pervasive strong language, and some drug use.

Season 3 contains disturbing content, some bloody violence, strong language, and brief sexuality.

Season 4 contains disturbing violent content, strong language, and some graphic sexuality/nudity.

A very dark, unexpectedly scary and intense series, with a theme of murder and crime. There is also a prominent theme of child abduction, pedophilia, and implications of sacrifice throughout the series. While there is only very infrequent violence, there are plenty of suspenseful and brooding moments

There are a few scenes with disturbing images, particularly those of corpses, which are often bloody or bloated, and in the worst cases, mutilated (only shown briefly).