The Boys: parents' guide

Constant gore: exploding heads, dismemberment and a racist supe slaughtering minority civilians. A mother and baby die in a bloody birth, children are held at gunpoint, and sexual assault recurs, including coerced oral sex and the lead villain's rape of a woman.

Constant and extreme. Plugged In counted roughly 40 to 80 f-words in each season premiere it tallied, plus many s-words, several c-words and crude sexual terms. The N-word and a slur against a Japanese character are used.

Frequent explicit sex, including oral and group sex and masturbation, with bare breasts and buttocks and full-frontal male nudity. Gags include a shrunken man having sex with a doll, an octopus lover and a supe's tentacle-like penis.

Cocaine and heroin are snorted, smoked and injected, a superpower drug fuels addiction, and a character dies after being forcibly injected with heroin. Another nearly dies after accidentally swallowing cocaine. Heavy drinking, drunkenness and smoking are routine.

Disturbing images throughout: torture, body horror, a young woman obliterated by a speeding hero in the first episode, a rescued dolphin crushed by a truck, and a psychopathic lead who kills casually and threatens children. A boy accidentally kills his mother with his powers.