Belfast

Main characters are White and are depicted as being Protestant or Catholic. Women are shown to be strong, courageous, principled, often standing up to the men in their lives. Some diversity among supporting cast. A confectionary shop is owned by someone of South Asian descent. Reference to a curry causing someone to have diarrhea, which plays on stereotypes.

Violent scenes involving rioting and looting, with characters armed with chains and batons. Firebombs thrown, cars set alight and exploded, windows smashed. Barbed wire barricades erected. Soldiers driving tanks enter residential neighborhoods. Characters routinely intimidated with violence -- forced from their homes, ordered to pay money or to join the perpetrators. Parent and child held by a character who has a gun in their back pocket in a stand-off with soldiers. A shot is fired but no one is hit; hostages escape unharmed. Character punches someone in the face. News reports mention people dying as a result of cross-religious fighting. During an argument, a character throws plates at their spouse. After a short stay in hospital with an unspecified illness, an older character dies. They are briefly seen in an open coffin prior to their funeral.

Childhood crushes. Young boy talks extensively about liking a girl in his class. Married couples show each other affection -- dancing and telling each other they love them. While watching a movie at the theater, a character comments on the attractiveness of one of the stars, who is dressed in revealing clothing.

One use of "f--kers." Other language includes "bloody," "hell," "shite," "a--hole," "arse," "buggers," "heck," and "shut up." Also "for God's sake" and "Christ" used as exclamations. A character tells another, "you're mental."

Occasional drinking at social events. In one scene, a character is seen singing in the street while holding a glass, the implication being that they may have had too much to drink.