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Breaking Bad is laced with way more profanity and graphic violence than you could swing for a PG-13 rating. It's not True Blood, but then, The Matrix and Blade
by cheald 13y ago
Breaking Bad is laced with way more profanity and graphic violence than you could swing for a PG-13 rating. It's not True Blood, but then, The Matrix and Blade are two R-rated movies with vastly different severity of content.
- mortenjorck 13y agoThe language is still oddly MPAA-centric. The writing is so outstanding it's hardly something to notice, yet the characters never say "fuck" apart from once or twice, where it was probably censored on basic cable (pretty sure the most recent instance I saw was even distorted on Netflix). Contrast that with a motherfuckin' HBO show where you can't go a fuckin' minute without a few fucks thrown in for good fuckin' measure.
- cheald 13y agoOh, I'm not arguing that it's anywhere near as gratuitous as the content you'll find on HBO. I'm just saying that it's difficult to play it as "PG-13" material; it's more soft-R than HBO's hard-R.