The Diplomat: parents' guide

Bombings drive the plot, with a season 1 car bomb and a deadly London blast with wounded shown in hospital. A woman is choked and her head cracks on the floor, leaving a pool of blood; the president is shot; a married couple trades punches.

Constant and strong: the lead uses f-words freely, and one count of the season 4 premiere found 14 f-words and seven s-words. Also 'motherf---ing,' 'bulls--t,' 'a--hole,' sexual slang like 'p---y,' and frequent use of God's and Jesus' names.

Sex scenes are brief and not graphic, with male and female rear nudity, including skinny-dipping in season 1. Characters appear in underwear, infidelity and a season 3 affair are major plot threads, and a secretly recorded sexual encounter figures in season 2.

Characters drink constantly and occasionally smoke marijuana and cigarettes; pill misuse, including unprescribed oxycodone, comes up. A minor character is poisoned and dies, and in season 3 a supporting character takes a fatal overdose.

Tension, not terror: terror attacks, a nuclear-armed submarine crisis, an assassination attempt and an off-screen helicopter crash that kills a main character. Also: a suicide in season 3, a shooter's reported suicide in season 4 and talk of a past suicide attempt and pregnancy loss.