Chernobyl: parents' guide

Few fights, but radiation sickness is shown in gory detail, including a man's badly burned face and victims deteriorating in hospital. A team shoots abandoned pets and other animals, the dead are sealed in concrete, and the opening hanging is handled discreetly.

Strong language across the five episodes: one guide counted 29 obscenities, often the f-word, along with s-words, bastard and hell. Another reviewer found the profanity occasionally excessive.

No sexual content beyond a married couple's affection, but coal miners strip and work fully naked in the heat beneath the reactor, with non-sexual full-frontal male nudity that one reviewer called needlessly explicit.

Characters drink vodka and smoke heavily, often to cope with fear and stress. No drug use.

Sustained dread and disturbing images: dying firefighters, hospital wards of radiation victims, a baby's death, and a long sequence of animals being shot. Bleak throughout, with little relief.