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milktreeThere's this show on FX called The Americans. It's a pretty good show, I like it.
There's this other show called Justified. It's a *really* good show. I like it a lot.
But that's not the point.
Each of them is somewhat ... graphic, explicit, etc.
Here's the thing: the parental warning at the beginning of the episodes isn't always the same. Sometimes they're LSV (Language, Sexual situations, and Violence) sometimes they're just LV.
So, if you're a parent, and you think it's fine to let your kid hear swear words and violence, but not sex (not how I'd set my priorities, but I understand some people do), you can't necessarily know from any particular episode if the rest of the series is "OK"
I'd think for a serial program where pretty much every episode is important to following the arc of the story they'd put the most extreme warning on every episode so you wouldn't get surprised mid-season.
There's this other show called Justified. It's a *really* good show. I like it a lot.
But that's not the point.
Each of them is somewhat ... graphic, explicit, etc.
Here's the thing: the parental warning at the beginning of the episodes isn't always the same. Sometimes they're LSV (Language, Sexual situations, and Violence) sometimes they're just LV.
So, if you're a parent, and you think it's fine to let your kid hear swear words and violence, but not sex (not how I'd set my priorities, but I understand some people do), you can't necessarily know from any particular episode if the rest of the series is "OK"
I'd think for a serial program where pretty much every episode is important to following the arc of the story they'd put the most extreme warning on every episode so you wouldn't get surprised mid-season.
