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(1993–2018)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Both Scully and Mulder are occasionally seen in their underwear (which is quite ordinary and not very revealing).
  • A woman is shown waking around the facility in the nude. Though her body is hidden by objects, it is clear that she is naked.
  • There is a woman wearing very revealing mortal combat style clothing her entire butt is visible multiple times wearing only thong like underwear
  • Lengthy and explicit discussion of sex abuse.
  • Mulder flips through a calendar containing women in bikinis.
  • Occasional mentions in dialog of pornographic magazines and videos. Nothing explicit is ever shown on screen.
  • Certain episodes feature occasional sex scenes (actions, no nudity), in general once or perhaps twice per season. Characters on a few occasions in stages of undress, rarely though in a sexual nature (more sleeping, occasional bathing interruptions) and prostitutes occasionally crop up, as spies, information sources etc.
  • An episode features a naked Neanderthal woman, though we never see any nudity beyond one quite distant hazy rear shot.
  • An episode revolves around a woman who was raped by supernatural entities, she is shown thrashing around in a bed (fully covered) and later seen badly bruised and mentally scarred from the ordeal.
  • An episode revolves around a family resulted from years of incest.

Violence & Gore

  • Scully is a medical doctor and performs lots of bloody, graphic surgeries in pretty much every episode.
  • A small child is hit by a train and killed. This is offscreen but still upsetting.
  • Home is by far the most violent episode. It has alot of onscreen murders, and has a death of a baby
  • The show is shockingly violent and gory at points, although infrequently so.
  • A lot of the violence in this series is offscreen, but injury detail occasionally intense with some closeups of corpses, injuries, blood and on a few occasions gore. Certain episodes deal with topics of pedophilia and child murder. Many episodes in later seasons start to get very gory and gruesome

Profanity

  • Words such as "hell", "damn", "bastard", "son of a bitch", and "ass" are used.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Detailed drug misuse in some episodes.
  • Characters drink and smoke socially, and one recurring character dubbed 'The Cigarette Smoking Man' is seen smoking in virtually every scene he is in.
  • In one episode, teenagers are depicted to be high on some home-brewed, meth-like concoction.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The show is usually very dark and sometimes very violent.
  • Occasional jump scares, some of which can be quite severe.
  • The show is more intense than frightening.
  • Frequent scenes of horror and intense scenes.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • A man is brutally murdered by a group of men with baseball bats. Though it is hard to see, his blood is shown splattered on the floor.

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