On My Block: parents' guide

Gunfire is a regular backdrop, gang initiations involve beatings, and a man chokes a teen. A shooting at a quinceañera kills one teen and wounds another, and in season 4 Cesar's older brother is gunned down and dies in Cesar's arms.

Bitch is used constantly, as an insult and affectionately, along with shit, asshole, dick, hell, damn, goddammit, pissed and mofo, plus crude sexual remarks. Only a couple of f-words turn up across the whole series.

Lots of sex talk and crude jokes, passionate kissing, a secret teen affair, a boy masturbating with a sock until his grandmother interrupts, loud off-screen sex, and occasional partial nudity in later seasons. Little is shown beyond making out.

Teens smoke pot from joints, bongs and pipes and drink at parties, and middle schoolers drink beer. A grandmother smokes with her grandson, and in season 4 a character with cancer smokes weed regularly.

Friends are left traumatized by a shooting, and the show explores PTSD with care. Later seasons bring a mother's off-screen suicide, a grandmother's death from cancer and another gun death, and the constant threat of gangs keeps tension high.