The Apothecary Diaries: parents' guide

Mostly poisonings and their aftermath, slaps and knife threats, plus a girl struck with a club and left bloodied. Season 2 adds an assassination attempt with a gun and a fortress assault with stabbings, shootings and several deaths.

Mild: occasional 'damn' and name-calling like 'idiot' and 'creep,' plus cruel remarks when older attendants bully a young girl.

Frequent innuendo about courtesans, concubines and brothels, an aphrodisiac mishap, implied sex, brief partial breast nudity and covered bedroom nudity. A man tries to make a woman lick honey off his fingers against her will. Season 2 reveals the late emperor preyed on young girls.

The heroine is fascinated by drugs and poisons, doses herself to test them and bandages an arm scarred by her experiments. Adults and underage characters drink, sometimes to excess, and a man reportedly drank himself to death. Tobacco, an aphrodisiac and a hallucinogen drive plots.

Ghostly scares, a close-up of a drowned woman's body, coffins holding the dead, and an infant's death that leaves a mother grieving. A courtesan is revealed to have cut the tip off her baby's finger. Kidnappings, illness and, in season 2, poisoned children add tension.