Fairview

A Black and Southeast Asian women are the mayor and city manager of their small town, Fairview. Teenagers pose thoughtful responses and intellectually challenge their parents' views of the world. In a private conversation, a parent refers to their teenage child's nonbinary friend using they/them pronouns, even though it's something they're not familiar with. Voice cast includes multiple BIPOC cast members. The common racial and political tropes are often upended; layered nuances give way to interesting identities intersecting, deftly drawing stark cultural commentaries through the plotlines.

Verbal bodily threats, people hit by cars and killed with cartoon gore. There's a poorly dug mass grave overflowing with bodies named "The COVID Pit."

Dialogue around sexual wellness products. Two characters have a consensual, nonromantic sexual agreement; they are seen in bed together.

Constant crass language includes "damn," "f--k," "dumbass," "t-tty" and "s--t." Phrases include "eat my ass," and "f--king a--holes pieces of s--t."

Characters share memorable stories from their wild college party days, talking about using "rum-soaked tampons." A line contains the phrase "snorting biological weapons."

Parents need to know that Fairview is a raunchy adult animated comedy produced by Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) set in a fictional small town in middle America that's filled with stubborn and opinionated residents. Distilling national current events into what they might look like in local government, no topic is off limits for writer R.J. Fried (Tooning Out the News); foul language, gory cartoon violence, sex stuff, and substance use abound. The humor is vulgar but often sharp, hyper-topical, crass, and highbrow at once. Social and political commentary is plentiful and rapid.