Series · Documentary, Reality · 2021 · TV-MA

Clarkson's Farm: parents' guide

15+our pick

Best for ages 15 and up. Rated TV-MA.

A funny, frank farming documentary series best for older teens who can handle constant swearing and the hard realities of raising livestock. Jeremy Clarkson tries to run his Cotswolds farm with no experience, clashing with experts, weather and the local council. Nearly every episode has f-words, crude jokes about breeding, sex and pornography are common, and one first-season episode has brief non-sexual nudity. Farm life also means animal deaths: lambs and piglets die, sick and injured animals are shown, and a later season includes the cull of a pregnant cow. The language, crude humor and those losses are why we suggest 15.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

No human fights. Sick and injured animals are shown, livestock go to slaughter, a dog mauls a sheep, and a sow and a sick calf are put down. A deer cull cuts away before the kill; one episode shows a thumb sliced to the bone.

Language

Strong

Strong language in nearly every episode, with frequent f-words, one c-word in a later season, plus bastard and other insults. Crude talk about animal anatomy comes up often, and one later episode includes homophobic remarks and graffiti.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

No romance. Brief non-sexual nudity in one first-season episode, footage of animals mating, and frequent crude jokes about sex, masturbation and pornography. A later subplot involves a picnic site used for public sex, with condom wrappers and discarded underwear shown.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Adults drink often, especially once Clarkson opens a pub in later seasons. One episode shows a man binge drinking beer, others mention getting drunk, and one episode jokes about a hallucinogenic fungus and LSD. No drug use is shown.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

Dead lambs, crushed and dying piglets and sick animals can upset animal lovers, and a later season's cull of a pregnant cow that later tests clear is especially sad. One episode briefly mentions suicide and poor mental health among farmers.

Sensitive topics

  • Animal death

Worth talking about

The show makes clear how hard farmers work for small and unpredictable profits. Ask your teen what surprised them about where food comes from and how farm animals are treated.

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Wikipedia, bbfc.co.uk. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.