Better Call Saul

TV show ยท 2015

This report covers the full six-season run (2015-2022) of the Breaking Bad prequel-and-sequel. It is a mature crime drama with escalating violence, pervasive drug-trade content, strong language, and two on-screen deaths by suicide.

Explicit sexual contentSelf-harm & suicideHarm to childrenMedical traumaGraphic violence & goreAbuse & manipulationSubstance abuseRacial & cultural stereotypes

Episodes to know about

Harm to childrenS1E1Mild

The cold open of the series premiere presents a courtroom video of teenagers who decapitated a corpse and engaged in sexual acts with it; details are stated explicitly in dialogue though graphic visuals are avoided.

Graphic violence & goreS1E1Mild

A character is shown cutting off a corpse's head on a grainy video played in court; the moment is darkly comedic in tone but involves a severed head.

Graphic violence & goreS1 and S2, recurringMild

Characters are punched, threatened at gunpoint, and occasionally shot with limited blood; a cartel enforcer beats people, mostly off-screen.

9 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own settings, in Little Later.