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(2015–2016)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Season 2 - there are a few episodes where couples are either about to have sex, are making out, as well as implied sex.
  • In season two where is lots of discussion about very young girls, as young as 11, being forced to have sex to become pregnant. There's discussion about "coming-of-age", "flowering," and other sexual reproduction discussions involving children.
  • A man says he took a woman back to his hotel room to "take it up a notch".
  • Biology textbooks show sperm cells on the front covers.
  • A man and woman go to the hospital to see if they are okay for having a child.
  • Ben and Amy kiss several times. At one time, they look as if they are going to "go farther" but are interrupted before they get the chance.

Violence & Gore

  • Season 2 is more violent than Season 1.
  • A man's injured leg is shown with blood spurting out of it, rather graphic and bloody.
  • Several injured and dead men are carried into the hospital, many of them are shown screaming in pain and with very bloody wounds, some wounds are graphically shown. One man is also shown with his legs missing (strong violence and gore).
  • A woman is shown struggling and twitching with her bloody chest due to not being able to breathe, the doctor tells her that her lung collapsed.
  • A man discovers an old decomposing corpse inside an abandoned house, chained to a bed.
  • A woman is shoved into a wall, blood is seen on her face later when she gets back up.
  • A woman's throat is slit onscreen. Graphic, but brief. Her blood can be seen spreading across the ground later.
  • A man is hit with a car, he is then shown, dying, with blood on his face.
  • A man is shot in the head (offscreen).
  • A dead man is grabbed by monsters and carried off into the woods.
  • A monster is blasted with a shotgun. This is offscreen but the scream is heard.
  • A deer is shown torn open with its guts spilling out. A group of monsters come and start eating the guts. This is onscreen and very graphic.
  • Several scenes of people who have committed suicide are shown. The first one shows a man lying in a bath tub with his wrists slit (this is brief but extremely graphic). The second shows a person who had hanged himself. The third shows a family lying in bed, dead, with plastic bags over their heads.
  • A street is shown, with burning vehicles and debris everywhere, and several dead bodies lying about.
  • A man tackles another man in the street, they are almost hit by a car.
  • A bomb goes off in the middle of town, blowing up a truck. Two teenagers are seen, faces bloody. One is a girl, who is walking around, in shock, the other is a boy who appears to be dead at first sight but is revealed to only be unconscious.
  • Monsters eat two men offscreen, while one of the men screams. One monster looks up, and we can see blood all around its mouth. In the next episode, it shows the monsters eating the two men again. Guts are briefly visible as the monsters eat.
  • A monster is struck by a car before being shot.
  • A truck collapses on two monsters an there is a loud crunch as they are crushed, one monster dies onscreen but is not too graphic.
  • A man shows pictures of body parts to another man, and the pictures are visible, and very gory. The man points to one picture asks "do you think that's an arm or a leg?"
  • A man is shot in the side from behind, we see the bloody exit wound before he falls to the ground. He survives, but a large amount of blood can be seen on his shirt later.
  • A woman slaps another woman hard in the face, drawing blood.
  • Dozens of monsters attack people who're brutally killed and eaten. A lot of this happens offscreen but the onscreen parts are very graphic. Some people fight back, and monsters are mowed down with shotguns and machine guns, a lot with accompanying blood spray. The aftermath of the fight is shown, there are bodies and some body parts all over the street, with pools of blood. Some bodies are missing limbs.
  • A woman whacks off a monster's head. Blood can be seen very briefly spurting from the neck stump before the camera cuts away. We can hear blood still falling to the floor after this happens.
  • A monster tears the back of a man's neck out with its teeth, this is very bloody.
  • A monster's head is blown off with a shotgun, although the impact is not visible, a huge amount of blood and brain matter splatter onto a nearby wall.
  • Several monsters are gunned down in a dark tunnel, it is implied that a woman who stayed at the front of the tunnel was killed by them.
  • Several guards are shot with automatic weapons and fall, presumably dead, to the ground. No blood is shown.
  • A man is shot in the chest, the bloody wound is seen as he dies.
  • A man blows up an elevator with pipe bombs in order to save everyone else, the elevator crashes, killing the rest of the monsters who were climbing up the elevator shaft and the man who was in the elevator.
  • A corpse is shown hanging from a post.

Profanity

  • Words like "damn" and "hell" are used.
  • One use of "bastard".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several characters drink beer and wine.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The whole concept of being trapped in a town and not being able to leave might be upsetting for some.
  • A public execution takes place where people are shown cheering and laughing.
  • There are some jump scares, particularly in the sixth episode & the finale that might startle some viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A teenage boy and girl go into a "procreation room" as part of an assignment to perpetuate the dwindling human race. They go under the covers, undress, and begin to nervously kiss, but the boy backs out and can't do it. No nudity is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • Several people are shot in the back of the head execution-style with a pump shotgun. Although this happens offscreen, we see the bodies as they fall, and there is also onscreen blood spray, which gets onto a woman's face after her husband is shot. Blood also gets on the floor.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The twist halfway through Season 1 might be upsetting for some.
  • Human-like creatures called abbies (short for abberations) might be scary for some.

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