Follow This

Violent visuals are low to nonexistent in most episodes, but a few contain content that may disturb some viewers, such as a segment in which a survivalist skins and guts a just-shot wild turkey. Some episodes talk frankly about violence, such as a subject who non-graphically relates being raped and forced into sex work when she was 12, and a sex worker who describes her fears that she'll be assaulted or even murdered on the job.

Subjects can verge on the sexual, such as an episode on intersex people that frankly describes genital variations, and another in which a woman talks about the many sex work jobs she's had, including stripping and "camming."

Language varies depending on the segment. Some have no cursing at all, others allow "f--k" and "s--t" to slip by unbleeped. In other episodes, language includes "damn," "f--ked," "whores," "ho," and "hell."

Most episodes don't touch on drugs and alcohol, but one episode that targets opiate addiction shows users in a "safe injection" site, mixing and cooking their drugs and sitting blankly after shooting up, but not actually using the syringes they hold. A woman talks about alcohol's role in her rape and human sex trafficking.

Parents need to know that documentary series Follow This features BuzzFeed reporters investigating controversial subcultures. These include men's right advocates, sex workers, opiate addicts, survivalists, and more. Each may say or do things that viewers may find iffy or unacceptable, but reporters treat their subjects with respect and allow them to freely air their views and talk about what they do and why. Subjects may be connected with violence, sex, and or addictive substances, such as an episode on opiate addiction that partly takes place inside a safe heroin injection site, where we see users preparing their drugs and in a daze after taking them (but not actually sticking a needle in their arms). Sex workers talk frankly about rape, the danger of assault and murder, and children who are forced into sex work. An episode on survivalists shows a hunter skinning and gutting a wild turkey. Language is clean in many episodes, but some allow curses ("f--k," "f--ked," "s--t") to be aired unbleeped.