Billy the Kid

Young Billy develops a close friendship with a Mexican boy named Carlos, with the two of them teaching each other their native languages. Billy is horrified by the violence he sees enacted against Mexican people by the violent White townsfolk and argues "they matter to me!" when told not to "waste his time on those who don't matter". Still, one man's relative decency doesn't outweigh the rest of the show's lacking representation. By the time Native Americans show up in episode 4, they're stealing Billy's horse. A trip to Chihuahua Mexico depicts a community of scammers and thieves. About the only group of non-whites shown in a somewhat positive light are the Chinese laundry-owners who defend their business from would-be robbers and are depicted as brave and honorable -- though they're definitely not spoken of that way by the white men seeking to rip them off. Racial slurs like "darkie" are heard. Gender-wise, female characters have very little depth and serve mainly as accessories to the males.

Billy learns to shoot while still a child and sees it as a way to protect his family and be a man and. Lots of old-West gunplay, people get shot and stagger around with bloody wounds. A wagon wreck results in a near-drowning. Attempted rape is depicted. A child sees three men hanged in front of him by an angry mob. Women are seen bruised and bloodied after being attacked. Fists fly on the regular in knock-down fights. A character fakes suicide to escape from jail. A dynamite explosion injures one man and blows the eyeball out of another, who dies.

Billy's mom is told that women have two choices in life: "to whore or to get married." She's depicted as a saint while sex workers are depicted as topless background props or punching bags for men. There are a few sex scenes, with the woman seen fully nude in silhouette, a man's bare bottom is visible. The lone female member of an outlaw gang is characterized as a bad-boy groupie, existing only to cause tension between the males.

Expletives of every type are heard, as are racial slurs and misogynistic language.

Plenty of scenes take place in smoky bars where cigar-chomping gamblers down whiskey and fall down drunk. A wagon driver is shown knocking back booze before attempting to assault one of his passengers. Characters drink to excess and wake up to find they've been robbed; people guzzle champagne to escape their problems.