The Americans: parents' guide

Frequent and sometimes graphic: strangulations, shootings, a guard stabbed in the neck, a man burned alive, a corpse broken to fit a suitcase, and a teen poisoned and nearly smothered to coerce his mother. The heroine's rape is shown in flashback; a nightmare shows an attempted rape.

Mostly s-words, 'damn,' 'hell,' 'bitch' and misuses of God's name, a few per episode. The f-word is rare; Plugged In counted three in the series finale.

Frequent and fairly explicit: sex scenes with movement and rear nudity, implied oral sex, a woman killed during sex and shown nude, and agents seducing targets. A teenage girl being used as a source tries to seduce an adult agent, who stops her.

Social drinking is common and the mother smokes heavily in the final season. In season 3 an agent smokes marijuana with a teenage girl he is using as a source, and characters discuss using alcohol to ease a seduction.

Constant tension and disturbing images: a murdered woman's body crushed into a suitcase, a man burned alive, a spy couple and their teenage daughter murdered in a hotel room, and a man who chooses to die in a police shootout rather than be caught.