Parents' Guide to Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood

Parents need to know that Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood is a period drama set in the 1900s that centers on the formation of Germany's famous brew festival. It claims to be based on true events, but most of the sex and violence introduced in the story is pure invention. Nudity-wise, we see full frontal female nudity, and a man's thrusting backside during a sex scene. A character attempts to avoid becoming pregnant by douching with vinegar. Characters smoke cigarettes and chug beer aplenty -- absinthe is also imbibed. Violence doesn't occur as frequently as the show's title might suggest, but when it does happen, it can be intense. There's a hanging and there are fistfights -- people are beaten to a pulp and blood splatters in the street, a severed head is pulled out of a river. There's a subplot involving a tribe from German Samoa who are treated, in keeping with attitudes of the time period, as savages.