Game of Thrones: parents' guide

Constant and graphic: beheadings, slit throats, people burned alive, torture with mutilation and huge battles with severed limbs. Children and infants are murdered. Several rapes are shown, and sexual violence against women recurs across seasons.

Plugged In notes the f-word several times an episode in many episodes, alongside the c-word, s-word, 'bastard' and 'bitch,' plus crude sexual slang and talk of anatomy.

Explicit sex scenes, full-frontal nudity of men and women and many brothel scenes. Incest between adult siblings is a major storyline, sex is used as a bargaining tool, and rape and coerced sex appear more than once.

Wine flows at every feast, and one main character drinks heavily, at one point until he vomits. Poisoned wine wipes out a whole family, pipe smoking appears, and potions and drugs are used to sedate or poison people.

Undead creatures, a massacre at a wedding, flayed bodies, a child burned at the stake and the sudden deaths of beloved characters make it relentlessly grim and often disturbing.