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Anna Torv in Fringe (2008)

Parents guide

Fringe

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Moderate
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Severe

Sex & Nudity

Mild
55 of 115 found this mild
Women in bra and panties often times. In S01E01 long scene with female in a bath wearing bra and panty.
Couples are seen kissing and hugging. Often times they are shown in bed, presumably after sex. Men are shown shirtless at times, and women in their bra and panties.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
29 of 55 found this moderate
In one episode, people's heads explode. Blood splatters everywhere. A body is briefly seen bloody and headless.
Disturbing bloody violence.
Martial-arts fighting between two FBI agents in one episode.
Some episodes contain shootouts with some blood.
A giant spiky slug slithers out of a dead man's mouth. This is not graphic, but it is gross and scary.
People sometimes go through scary monster transformations in some episodes, which can be disturbing.
In one episode, the life source (a small metal circle) is cut from shapeshifters' bodies. However, it is not difficult to watch because the shapeshifters' blood is in fact mercury, and they are minor 'bad guys'.
Autopsies are shown onscreen in some episodes, with blood and some gore. Nothing worse than CSI.
In the Pilot episode, skin melts off of people's faces in a brief 20-second scene.
In one episode, a man gets his arm caught in a machine and it is completely mangled and almost sliced in half, but it is brief and the camera does not linger. We see blood splatter on the ground.

Profanity

Mild
32 of 48 found this mild
"Bitch" and "ass" are used sparingly.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Moderate
23 of 41 found this moderate
Some characters were experimented on as children with an extreme, experimental drug.
In two episodes, we see what the characters are seeing when they take drugs, which are LSD and 'Black Blotter'. In this situation, the drugs are actually used for good. In an episode we can see hallucinatory effects of black blotter.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe
30 of 51 found this severe
Some of the episodes can be frightening and induce nightmares, but rarely.
Very dark scenes, involving CSI-type crime investigation. Disturbing images, sometimes bloody.
A religious man abducts children, and sucks their spinal fluid through a machine to give The Candyman youth, which is how he stays young. Due to the fluid intake, he also secretes sugar through his sweat.

Certifications

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  • Australia
    • MA15+
    • MTV rating
  • Brazil
    • 14
    • 12some episodes, season 1
    • 16some episodes, season 1
  • Canada
    • 14AManitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario
    • 13+Québec
    • PGcable rating
  • Denmark
    • 15
  • Egypt
    • Not Rated
  • Finland
    • K-12
  • France
    • Tous publicswith warning
  • Germany
    • 16
  • Hungary
    • 18
  • India
    • 16
  • Ireland
    • 15
  • Italy
    • Twith warning
  • Japan
    • G
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Mexico
    • B
  • Netherlands
    • 16Season 5
    • 12season 1 - 4
  • New Zealand
    • R16
  • Norway
    • 15
  • Philippines
    • 13+self-applied
  • Poland
    • 12self-applied
  • Portugal
    • M/12
  • Russia
    • 16+
  • Singapore
    • NC16
  • South Africa
    • 13V
    • 10-12V, season 5
  • South Korea
    • 15
  • Spain
    • 16
    • 13original rating, Galicia
    • 18cable rating
    • 12on some TV networks
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • Switzerland
    • 16
  • Thailand
    • 18
  • United Kingdom
    • 15
    • PGone episode, season 2
    • Uone episode, season 5
    • 12some episodes
  • United States
    • TV-14
  • United Arab Emirates
    • 15+self-applied

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