Parents guide

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 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.

A fair amount of female bare breast throughout, no real nudity however.

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

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.

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 to being 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 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.

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.

The middle finger is sometimes used.

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.

A group of thugs raid a dope house, people are shown doing and dealing drugs.

One episode features a main character 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.

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.

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, a character's loss of their sanity can be sad to watch.

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

Early into season three, graphic sexual assault is depicted. It's quite sudden, disturbing and very upsetting.

The show can be extremely suspenseful and intense. Major and minor characters are killed, sometimes suddenly.