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Andrew Lincoln in The Walking Dead (2010)

Parents guide

The Walking Dead

Content rating

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

Sex & Nudity

Mild
560 of 1101 found this mild
Some kiss scenes which are all under a minute, and the characters are always clothed, so no nudity is ever shown. Suitable for ages 13 and above, there's nothing that can't be put in a PG 13 movie.
In Season 3, they are wearing aprons, but their buttocks are still briefly shown.
In Season 6, a character takes a shower, and their buttocks are shown, but that's it. No graphic nudity, but most of the nudity that's ever shown is shirtless men, or the back of a woman.
Some brief instances of implied rape or being raped but it cuts away. As such, it is never ever taken too extreme but it is referenced.
Most episodes have zero sex or nudity whatsoever.
In most episodes, sex and nudity is mild and it is never that explicit. Also, there are some brief sex scenes but they never include any nudity, they are mostly just makeout scenes. The nudity, however, is always the buttocks if anything and is very rare, but only in a few episodes.
Season 3 overall has the most sex and nudity, but even then it's very mild and nothing explicit is actually shown on screen.
Shane and Rick talk about their high school love lives and explicity speak of their sexual experiences.
There are less sex scenes and sexual content as you go through the seasons. Season 8 has virtually no sex & nudity, unless you count kissing.
Some episodes have nothing, and some show sex scenes with little to no nudity.

Violence & Gore

Severe
726 of 786 found this severe
Visual of a decomposing body, but brief.
The death of a (zombie) child.
A dead animal is seen being eaten by crows.
In a brief scene, you see a zombie with a piece of meat in his mouth. Blood is seen dripping from his mouth.
In some episodes, you briefly see body parts lying around. This ranges from not very graphic to very gory such as a length scene showing a pile of half eaten people including children. Another bloody scene shows a pile of gore, and a starving man begins to eat this because of his hunger. He then discovers near by the body of a ripped child and makes the realization that he ate the remains of a kid.
Bloodily violent and graphic. A scene shows a man getting his head smashed with a barbed wired baseball bat and his eye is seen. He then gets his whole head smashed and a bog pile of brains is shown. This scene is very emotional and probably the most violent in the entire series.
Humans, as well as zombies, die in graphic ways with limbs ripped off, eyes pulled out, guts pulled out, torture, etc.
A group of cannibals prepare humans like meat and eat them. Very disturbing imagery is shown including a cannibal eating a man's foot in front of him. Also, he graphically chews a piece of meat off the bone. This is extremely disturbing.
A woman needs to give birth and she has to have a c-section. This is shown in graphic detail, and the baby survives, but the mother bleeds out.
Several scenes depicting eyes pulled out and guts ripped out. One of the more violent scenes shows a horde of zombies ripping a man open in two full onscreen. They then begin to eat his insides and flesh.

Profanity

Moderate
363 of 642 found this moderate
In a change for the show, during the final 8 episodes of Season 11, the word "fuck" is said about once in an episode before that it had been used once is Season 4 (DVD only), once in Season 5 (DVD only), used many times by Negan in the Season 6 finale (DVD only), and once in Season 9 (DVD only).
Merle Dixon, is seen to be a racist and makes several offensive remarks, including the infamous "n-word."
The f-bomb is used multiple times in season 11.
The Word Ni**er is used infrequently in earlier seasons.
"Ni**er" is said a few times in early season 1.
Profanity is used sparingly, with the word "shit" being the strongest said a few times every episode. Words like "bitch," "asshole," "dick," "prick," "pussy," and "jerk-off" are infrequently used. Other than that, the only regular profanity is quite mild (Such as "ass," "hell," "piss," and "damn" respectively).
The middle finger is seen on a few occasions.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
414 of 574 found this mild
In season 10, a character is addicted to caffine pills. Hallucinations occur and methamphetamine is mentioned in the same episode
In season 10, two characters drink an entire bottle of whiskey and get increasingly drunk and their decisions get increasingly worse.
In season 4 there is an episode where two characters spend an entire episode finding Moonshine, and later in the episode they get very drunk.
Alcohol is consumed in some episodes.
Some characters smoke cigarettes.
References to hard drugs are made rarely and are not depicted in use.
Bob is an alcoholic.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe
537 of 621 found this severe
Children and animals are sometimes seen getting abducted and dying. This can be emotionally intense.
Season 11 is by far the scariest season.
A character wears the face of a zombie as she cuts another woman's head completely off with a string of piano wire and then proceeds to hand the head to the victim's boyfriend. Then, she proceeds to stab her boyfriend multiple times in the stomach.
In season 10, two characters are held at gunpoint and forced to play russian roulette.
In season 10, one whole episode is centered around characters stuck in a dark cave filled with zombies. This will likely induce anxiety to claustrophobic viewers.
Characters disguise themselves with zombie guts to move past zombies. It begins to rain and they run away from the zombies while shooting and stabbing them. This is very intense.
A woman is forced to kill her undead sister. Very depressing and scary.
People are scared and screaming as zombies surround them and they think they are about to die.
A dying man has nightmares about zombies.
A man goes insane over the course of a season and kills multiple people.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 18self-applied
  • Australia
    • MA15+seasons 1-5, 9
    • R18+seasons 6-8, 10
  • Brazil
    • 16
    • 14season 1
    • 18some episodes
  • Canada
    • 14AManitoba
    • 18ANova Scotia/Ontario
    • 13+Québec
  • Czech Republic
    • 15
  • Denmark
    • 15
  • Ecuador
    • 18self-applied
  • Egypt
    • 18+self-applied
  • Finland
    • K-18season 5, 6
    • K-16seasons 1-4, 7-10
  • France
    • 16
  • Germany
    • 18
    • 16some episodes
    • 12some episodes
  • Hong Kong
    • IIB
  • India
    • A
  • Indonesia
    • 21+
  • Ireland
    • 18some episodes, Season 1, 3-9 DVD
    • 15some episodes, Season 2 DVD
  • Israel
    • 18
  • Italy
    • VM14
  • Japan
    • R18+self-applied
  • Mexico
    • B15
  • Netherlands
    • 16
  • New Zealand
    • R13some episodes
    • R16some episodes, Season 1, 4, 6, 8-9 DVD
    • R18some episodes, Season 2-3, 5, 7 DVD
  • Norway
    • 15DVD and Blu-ray rating
    • 15DVD rating
  • Philippines
    • R-13Season 1-2
    • R-16Season 3-11
    • SPGself-applied
  • Poland
    • 18
  • Portugal
    • 16
  • Russia
    • 18+
  • Singapore
    • NC16
    • M18Disney+ rating
    • PG13edited TV version
  • South Africa
    • 18self-applied
  • South Korea
    • 15original rating
    • 19re-rating
  • Spain
    • 18Netflix
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • Thailand
    • 20self-applied
  • Turkey
    • 18+self-applied

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