Snatch

Many scenes take place at boxing matches with men pummeling each other; machine guns and hand guns are pointed and fired; characters are shot and killed with sprays of blood; during chase scenes bystanders are knocked down and hurt; scenes of mayhem in which men chase each other through busy streets trying to shoot each other; a bookie owed money threatens to take a character's finger; a man hits someone (offscreen) with a bat repeatedly as they scream in agony; a dead body is casually thrown into a garbage truck. The violence is not glamorized, exactly, since the characters are depicted as degenerates and many serve jail times. But this show clearly sympathizes with those who commit crimes as a means of getting ahead in life.

A man and woman violently argue before he pushes her up against a wall and kisses her, she responds and takes money to "buy something transparent" to wear later. Both male and female characters are shown in revealing costumes and half-dressed -- no private parts are visible. A man holds up a woman's black lace panties to imply a friend had sex with their owner. One character's mother is heard moaning passionately during sex with a stranger.

Cursing and strong language: f--k, f--king, piss, s--t, bastard, bulls--t, ass, English-style cursing: s--te, bollocks. An unappealing character calls a man a "half-pikey" (i.e. partly of Romani/Irish Traveller extraction; an ethnic slur).

Characters make and sell infused vodka and drink beer and liquor; characters smoke cigarettes; there's a joke about "nose candy."

Parents need to know that Snatch is a TV series based on the 2000 heist movie of the same name. Set the same downtrodden London neighborhood as the movie, the series has a similar tone and plot. Our main characters are strivers and sometimes-criminals, who make money by stealing, betting, and cheating others rather than by working for it -- this has led to jail terms for some. Frequent violence includes machine- and handgun shoot-outs; characters are suddenly shot and killed in sprays of blood. A loan shark threatens to "take a finger" from a man who owes him money. A criminal enforcer bludgeons someone (offscreen) to death with a bat as horrible screams are heard; later, his dead body is wrapped in a carpet and thrown casually into a garbage truck, with even his family members seemingly not shocked or saddened by the murder. There are jokes about and references to sex, including a scene in which a man pushes a woman up against a wall during a fight and kisses her; she responds positively. Frequent cursing and strong language includes multiple variations of "f--k" and "s--t" as well as "bastard," "piss," and sexist/ethnic slurs. Characters smoke cigarettes, drink, and joke about illegal drugs.