Succession: parents' guide

Little physical violence: scuffles, smashed objects and a fatal car crash. The patriarch strikes his young grandson and later an adult son, and past beatings of his children are alluded to. Cruise-ship sexual assaults and deaths are discussed, never shown.

Extreme. Plugged In counted roughly 65 to 90 f-words per episode in the premieres it reviewed, plus 11 to 15 s-words, c-words, 'prick' and other crude terms. The insults are elaborate and constant.

Mostly crude talk about sex, masturbation and genitals, but some scenes go further: a character masturbates at a window, couples have sex, a season 1 episode is set at an underground sex party, and Plugged In reports full male nudity.

Heavy drinking is everywhere, and characters smoke marijuana and use cocaine. One son is a recovering addict who relapses more than once, and a night spent hunting for cocaine ends in a fatal accident.

No horror, but heavy moments: an onscreen brain hemorrhage, a fatal car crash, an employee's offscreen suicide during an office lockdown, a character floating face down in a pool in a scene that suggests a suicide attempt, and a parent's death in the final season.