Scream Queens

Action centers on a serial killer loose at a college sorority. Graphic violence including stabbings, throat slashing, decapitations, and the like. The camera often cuts away during the grossest moments, but we see flowing, flying, and spurting blood, dead bodies, gore. Characters are suddenly dispatched in deaths played for laughs. Gory deaths including a woman's face being deep-fried and a killer reapplying spray-tanning solution with hydrochloric acid.

Couples have sex with moaning and thrusting (no nudity). Many references to and jokes about sex, oral sex, casual sex, group sex. Jokes about a gay character "touching the wiener" of a straight character. A man says he's going to take underwear from a woman he just had sex with.

Frequent cursing: "hell," "ass," "damn." Vulgar language: Women are referred to as "pieces of ass" and "sluts." A woman asks another woman if she "munches box."

Underage characters drink cocktails and beer. A character smokes a joint on-screen.

Parents need to know that Scream Queens is a horror-comedy about a serial killer stalking college students at a sorority. The plot and dialogue send up both slasher movies and teen drama, but younger viewers probably won't catch the irony in the queens' behavior. Similarly, violence is presented satirically, but stabbings, a decapitation, a woman burned with hydrochloric acid, and a slashed throat all are shown with flowing and spouting blood. A woman is killed by having her face deep-fried, and characters are dispatched suddenly by a masked killer. Women are called "sluts," "bitches," and "gashes," and "ass" is used frequently. Women are seen frequently in underwear, men less frequently. Underage characters drink; an authority figure smokes a joint while in bed with a much younger college student. Characters have sex with moaning and thrusting (no nudity shown). A character is disabled and her disability used as a topic for jokes.