Nocturne: parents' guide

In episode 1 the killer talks a fellow inmate into sprinting headfirst into a concrete wall, which kills him and leaves pooled blood. People are punched and hit with a rifle butt, bodies are shown, and burying victims alive is described in detail.

Plugged In counted about 10 f-words and seven s-words in episode 1 and about 22 f-words and five s-words in episode 2, along with bastard, damn, hell and piss, plus misuse of God's and Jesus' names.

No sex scenes so far, though two agents are said to have had a casual fling. In episode 2 an undercover agent is strip-searched and told to lift her breasts; only her upper chest is visible. There is also a crude testicle remark.

Characters drink beer, and one man drinks heavily and is said to turn violent when drunk. A drug sting shows bags of cocaine or heroin, a prisoner is dosed with strong sedatives, and a character's father died of alcoholism.

A sadistic killer seems supernatural in how he manipulates people, a boy is found blind and starved after years held captive in the dark, his sister is still missing, and the detective mourns a wife and daughter said to have died in an accident.