11.22.63: parents' guide

Bloody hammer murders of a mother and children in a flashback, a man strangled with a cord, a fire poker to the head, a woman's face slashed, beatings, shootings, and a man leaping from a window. A husband's rape of his wife is described.

Frequent f-words and s-words (Plugged In counted more than a dozen f-words in the first episode alone), plus goddamn and bitch. White characters casually use the N-word and homophobic slurs.

Couples make out and have sex, with brief thrusting and moaning, a partly bare backside and a man's bare chest. A brothel scene shows women in lingerie, and there is infidelity and a crude campaign-sign joke.

Near-constant cigarette and pipe smoking in the 1960s scenes, social drinking that sometimes turns into drunkenness, and a sick character taking prescription pills.

Sudden violent attacks, a menacing stalker husband, a little girl drowning over and over in a time loop, swarming cockroaches and spiders, and the deaths of likable characters.