Alice in Borderland: parents' guide

Graphic and constant: players are shot, crushed, burned and executed by lasers, with blood spraying from wounds, including one character's neck. Season 1 has fistfights, knife attacks and an attempted rape in which several men hold a young woman down.

Frequent strong profanity, including f-words and s-words along with 'damn' and 'hell,' used by many characters under stress.

Heavy make-out scenes, revealing swimwear at a party-filled hotel, and some brief nudity, according to reviewers. No explicit sex scenes are reported. The attempted sexual assault is covered under violence.

Several characters smoke often. Season 3 centers on a drug that stops the heart to trigger near-death states: it is injected on screen, a professor admits a student died in an experiment with it, and one ally is a drug addict.

Sustained dread: any game can end in sudden death, friends must sacrifice one another, and bodies pile up. Several characters die by suicide, including a parent in flashback, and a young woman cuts her wrist to pull a friend out of a hallucination.