The Fall of the House of Usher: parents' guide

Gruesome deaths in nearly every episode: partygoers burned to death by acid spray, a woman mauled by a chimpanzee, a man cut in half, a fatal fall, and a woman buried alive who strangles someone. A cat is stabbed to death in a blood-soaked apartment.

Relentless profanity: Plugged In counted more than 25 f-words in the first episode, nearly 65 in the second and at least 30 in the third, along with s-words, the c-word and graphic sexual talk.

An orgy episode shows full-frontal male and female nudity and topless dancers, with sex on surveillance video. Other episodes include explicit encounters, role-play with a hired actress, masturbation and plenty of crude sexual talk.

The family fortune comes from an opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths. Characters snort cocaine, take pills, ecstasy and edibles, and drink heavily. Addiction is a running theme, a drug-fueled hallucination leads to a death, and an overdose is a plot point.

A ghostly woman stalks the family, a dying patriarch hallucinates corpses and undead children, and every episode builds to a grisly comeuppance. A man torments his paralyzed wife, and animal-testing scenes show a chimp's beating heart in its open chest.