The Chair Company: parents' guide

The lead is jumped outside his office, knocked out in a bar brawl and attacked in a school gym, mostly played for awkward laughs. One episode opens with a young boy fatally shooting a man with a 3D-printed gun.

Swearing is relentless, with f-words and s-words in most scenes; even the first episode's title contains an f-word.

Brief but explicit pornography played for laughs: the lead flips through photocopied porn with nudity and oral sex, an episode ends on a porn video showing oral sex, and an erect penis is seen in close-up. Also upskirt and office-harassment gags.

Adults drink throughout. The lead's teenage son drinks heavily at his own birthday party and throws up in front of guests. New Zealand's rating board also lists drug use, without details, and the plot toys with a drug-smuggling theory.

Paranoid suspense played for comedy: a stranger hiding in a closet, a figure in a hockey mask staring at the house on a security camera, creepy texts and surprise attacks, plus one sudden on-screen killing.