Station Eleven: parents' guide

A man is stabbed without warning, another is shot, a wolf mauls someone with blood shown afterward, and an intruder kills a character. Most disturbing, cult children wearing explosives hug a man and detonate them, killing him and themselves.

Frequent, with f-words and 'asshole' among the most common. Plugged In counted nearly a dozen f-words in the episode it reviewed.

Romance stays mild: flirting, kissing and dating, plus references to adultery. A woman gives birth on screen without graphic detail. No sex scenes or nudity.

Brief but shown: a man who had been sober for years drinks whiskey and later uses cocaine, and a key character turns out to use heroin, with his supplies shown, though he is never seen high. Characters drink vodka and whiskey, and one smokes.

The early episodes show a fast-spreading pandemic, panic, a plane crash and corpses, and a child learns by text that her parents have died. A woman dies after childbirth. Later tension comes from a cult, though the tone is more hopeful than scary.