Parents guide

Edie Falco walks naked. Her bare butt is visible.

Sex scenes are usually quick but there is visible thrusting and breast nudity. Along with moaning.

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.

Tony Soprano has adulterous relationships with a lot of women throughout the series. He is seen having sex with them in a lot of episodes.

Women in strip clubs repeatedly seen up close dancing topless and in thongs.

Probably the most graphic sex scene in the series is when Tony and Valentina have sex on a chair. She is fully naked straddling him and we see her breasts jiggle. They both moan heavily and there is lots of thrusting.

Tony has vigorous sex with the secretary at Barone Sanitation in his office. The scene begins with his pants and underwear around his ankles as the camera slowly moves up and we see the office chair bouncing up and down. Tony's shirt just covers his butt as he thrusts into the secretary from behind. We see her butt as he spanks her hard numerous times. We then see her large breasts spilling out of her top as Tony continues thrusting. They both moan all throughout.

Tony sexually pursues his therapist in a few scenes. He also has sexual fantasies about her. In one of Tony's dream sequences they have sex. He inappropriately kisses her a couple of times during their sessions.

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.

While there is rarely any 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 violence including brutal beatings such as in the Pilot episode and a few shootings with bloody detail along with one scene showing a violent strangulation. Seasons 3 to 5 have violence depicted throughout as well, staying mostly moderate in detail but sometimes escalating to being 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.

A car crash occurs and two people are injured; a man coughs extreme amounts of blood and is suffocated without remorse by the other passenger. We hear his raspy breaths and wheezes as he is being smothered.

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.

Heavy use of the word "fuck" and it's phrases in every episode.

Slurs for African Americans, Italians, Polish, Hispanics, Jews, Russians, Native Americans, Asians, Muslims, and Homosexuals are heard throughout.

Alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy/MDMA, ketamine, cannabis, meth, crack, peyote, and mescaline are used, in some cases by minors. One character is severely addicted to cocaine and heroin and this is a large part of his character. Drug dealing is a plot point.

The show highlights many various hard-hitting topics, such as mental health and illness, PTSD, depression, dementia, dysfunctional families, murder, cancer, rape, statutory rape, sexual harassment, organized crime, domestic violence, discrimination, family estrangement, gambling addiction, infidelity, existential crisis, suicide, self harm, and drug and alcohol abuse. It is not an emotionally easy watch.

The main character, Tony Soprano, has several violent outbursts throughout the show. They get worse as it progresses, as does his mental health.

Between the harsh, grim tonal shift in later seasons, infrequent but graphic and upsetting violence, depressing themes, and disturbing character behavior throughout, this is one of the more hard to watch shows out there.

While season one is relatively light, the show gets progressively darker and darker.

The bizzare atmosphere of Tony's dreams can be extremely uneasy and creepy for some viewers.

Rated R for strong bloody brutal violence including scenes of torture and rape, graphic sexuality, nudity, pervasive strong language, and graphic drug content.

There are no morally good characters in this show.