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- Spoilers (5)
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Sex & Nudity
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- One of the secondary characters is a married but closeted gay man. In Season 6, he is seen being physically intimate with other men.
- Sex is not the main topic, but it is shown.
- Edie Falco walks naked. Her bare butt is visible.
- Sex scenes are usually quick and they never include graphic nudity.
- Graphic nudity is very rare, but breasts are shown often.
- Season 3 has multiple scenes in strip clubs and one episode includes a backroom of the club which shows multiple scenes of sexual content.
- Bare breasts in strip clubs are shown in several episodes.
- No real nudity. Lots of bare female breast however.
- A fair amount of female bare breast throughout, no real nudity however.
- There are several crass sexual references.
Violence & Gore
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- A man is unexpectedly shot in the head. He is then shot once more in the chest, and his face is then slowly ran over by a large car. We don't see it, but we hear a graphic crunch, and a man vomits after witnessing this.
- There are multiple beatings which can get graphic.
- A character is violently sexually assaulted in an extremely graphic scene that lasts over a minute. Very distressing
- While there is no actual gore, there is TONS of blood and violence. There are shootouts in almost every episode, people suffering shots to the head to the chest and coughing up blood. There is one kill that is done by strangulation and one that is a self inflicted hanging. One character dies offscreen, but there are 62 onscreen deaths in the series.
- Seasons 1 to 2 have infrequent and relatively moderate violence. In these seasons, there are numerous beatings and a few shootings with bloody detail along with one scene showing a brutal strangulation. Seasons 3 to 5 have violence depicted throughout as well, staying mostly moderate in detail but sometimes escalating too bloody and occasionally graphic. Season 6 has some very graphic violent scenes towards the end with an explicitly gory curb stomp scene and other violent acts.
- The first season entering into the second season has very little violence, but this abruptly changes.
- Season 1 has very little violence and none of it is brutal or overly graphic. Most episodes in the season are completely absent of violence and all of the violent scenes are brief.
- This show contains numerous shocking and unexpected instances of graphic brutal violence.
- A man brutally beats his pregnant girlfriend to death by punching her and bashing her head into a metal guard rail repeatedly. We see her bloody corpse for a few times.
- A man is viciously beaten in the head with a golf club until his skull splits open and blood gushes out.
- A man is shot in the face with a shotgun and half of his face is blown off. The camera lingers on his gory wound in closeup.
- An elderly man shoots his grandson in the head spraying blood and brain matter onto the ceiling. Part of his ear is also shot off with blood spraying, and there is tons of blood in this scene.
- A man is beaten to death with pool cues in a homophobic hate crime. Later it is mentioned that he had a pool cue rammed up his buttocks.
- A man is shot in the back of the head, chunks of blood splatter onto a lamp. We later see a gory bullet hole in his face. A dead rat is shoved in his mouth.
- A woman shoots her fiance in the chest and face the day before their wedding. His body is then cut up into pieces and ran through a meat grinder.
- A corpse is dismembered in a bathtub. We see hands chopped off, and a decapitation with tons of blood. His arms, legs and head are placed in a bowling bag that gets buried. The rest of the body is then thrown in the river.
- A man is viscously pistol whipped in the face, blood surrounds his mouth. Later he is curb stomped, and all of his teeth are knocked out. This scene is extremely bloody and brutal.
- No one is safe from murder during this show. Throughout the series, family members and blood relatives kill each other in cold business like manners.
Profanity
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- Very frequent uses of "shit", "damn", "ass", and "prick".
- The word "cocksucker" is used numerous times in the series.
- "Cunt" is used many times. Especially in Seasons 2, 3 and 5
- The F word is said 3,508 times throughout the series of 86 episodes. Season 1: 437 times, Season 2: 715 times, Season 3: 604 times, Season 4: 425 times, Season 5: 600 times, and Season 6: 727 times.
- "Faggot" is used sometimes.
- About 40 to 50 uses of "fuck" per episode.
- The show is very well known for its excessive over-the-top swearing, and is usually classified as one of the most profane television series of all time.
- Slurs for African Americans, Italians, Polish, Hispanics, Jews, Russians, Native Americans, Asians, Muslims, and Homosexuals are heard throughout.
- Some profanity in other languages, most notably in Italian.
- Virtually every single character on the show regularly uses strong language.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A group of thugs raid a dope house, people are shown doing and dealing drugs.
- One episode features Tony and a stripper using peyote.
- Drinking throughout. Frequent cigarette and cigar smoking. Frequent and graphic cocaine and heroin use. Occasional marijuana smoking. Some MDMA use. Brief meth use. One scene of crack smoking. A man also uses the psychedelic peyote/mescaline
- Use of drugs such as heroin and cocaine is shown often. Sometimes they are seen being packaged.
- A main character abuses drugs and alcohol often.
- Cigarette, cigar smoking, and social drinking are present in nearly every episode.
- Tony's teenage son smokes marijuana in a few scenes.
- Tony is involved in narcotics trafficking.
- Ecstasy is sold to teens and adults alike at parties and local night clubs.
- In one episode, teens take ecstasy and "Special K" at a party. One overdoses and goes to the hospital.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The show highlights many various hard-hitting topics, such as mental health and illness, PTSD, depression, dementia, dysfunctional families, murder, cancer, rape, sexual harassment, organized crime, domestic violence, discrimination, family estrangement, gambling addiction, infidelity, existential crisis, suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse.
- The main character, Tony Soprano, has several violent outbursts throughout the show, but they get worse as it progresses.
- Many of the dream sequences portrayed in the show are frightening and quite disturbing.
- There are many moments that can be considered very violent and explicit. Also, this show's language is easily the most constant ever seen in any TV series. However, drug content and sexual content is often visible graphically.
- Throughout the run of the show, Uncle Junior's sanity drastically decreases.
- The show gets darker through the seasons.
- Like most of hbo tv shows ,sexual and violent content is severely showing , with lots of drug use and extreme language.
- The show can be extremely suspenseful and intense. Major and minor characters are killed, sometimes suddenly.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- A main female character is raped in Season 3 in a parking garage. The only nudity is the man's buttocks, and this is a very sad and disturbing scene but it doesn't last long and it isn't overtly explicit.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Bobby Bacala's death can be very sad for many viewers.
- In Season 5, Adriana La Cerva getting shot is one of the saddest moments in TV history.
- Dr. Melfi's rape scene is extremely brutal and disturbing. However, it lasts around a minute and it doesn't cut in any moment, which might be probably too strong for some viewers.
- Almost in the ending of the show, A. J. tries to kill himself by drowning. He regrets it almost immediately and he is then saved by Tony. While the scene is not bloody as A. J. is saved, him desperately crying after Tony saves him is very heartbreaking and sad.
