Arrow (2012)

What earned the score

• Women as Vigilante Fighters

  Dinah Drake is a police captain and the Black Canary, while other episodes feature women fighting and killing opponents, including the vigilante Cupid. The show routinely places women in combat and action roles.

• Gay Hero on Oliver’s Team

  Curtis Holt is identified as a gay, married man who becomes the superhero Mister Terrific. His identity is presented as a character detail rather than a driver of the story.

Details

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

Starring

Stephen AmellDavid RamseyRick GonzalezJuliana HarkavyKatherine McNamara

Genre

CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

Release Date

Oct 10, 2012

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  A man and a woman make out in the storage room of a bar. This scene occurs only for a few seconds.

  A woman makes a joke saying she wished she had hospital sex.

  A woman removes her bra in an episode, but it only shows her back. *Not meant to be sexual*

  A man and woman kiss

  Sexual content is mostly offscreen but does include scenes of undressing to underwear and after sex in bed (naked under sheets). Nudity is limited to male chests and sometiemes female bare back. Some mild sexual references and plots about affairs. There's also some homosexual content, including a coming out scene.

  The main characters are shown making out, and having sex multiple times, though nudity is limited to women's bare backs, and bare male chests

  Two women kiss in season 2

  Women show cleavage in many episodes

  Season 2 episode 13 two women kiss.

  Overall the kissing is mild and occurs rarely.

• Violence Moderate

  Season 4 is perhaps the most tame when it comes to violence, with a more stylized approach. The hand-to-hand element is still intense though and there are multiple uses of weapons. Magical elements also come into play, as characters are thrown around and suffocated with such powers. A man is set on fire and characters are stabbed (knives and arrows), shot (arrows and guns) and beaten, with little or no blood.

  In a very intense scene, a man has a pen thrown in his eye (a brief blood spurt can be seen when he pulls it out) and another is choked with a wire of sort, resulting in blood flowing down the killer's shirt. The killer later uses the same thrown pen to violently stab the first man (offscreen) to death.

  Seasons 1 and 2 are pretty dark when it comes to violence, with frequent action violence. While not very brutal, it can get intense and have bloody results. People are shot with guns, and arrows and stabbed (all result in some blood shown). The action is also very atmospheric, with dimly lit hallways and streets, making the violence all the more intense.

  In a hospital fight, a man is shot with guns and an arrow (blood spurts on the wall) and later has his tendons sliced with arrows (not much blood shown).

  A man is shot with a submachine gun repeatedly (blood spurts in slow motion, though the scene is brief)

  Three people are killed of by a metahuman via their powers (sonic scream). Neither of the kills are shown, but the aftermath is. One is a brief crime scene image, the other is a photograph, while the third is the most disturbing (visible bleeding from the ears and splattered blood on the wall). Another episode sees a man being killed brutally with the same power after he is impaled through the wall (bloody and a little graphic).

  A security guard is stabbed in the abdomen (not shown) and drags a blood trail after himself on the ground (disturbing) and later has his neck snapped.

  During a very quick and rather bloody fight scene, Deathstroke kills a dozen men, shooting them (blood is seen briefly spurting), bashing them with his guns, tossing them across the room and brutally stabbing and slicing them (impalement is seen in full view with blood). The aftermath has pools of blood near the corpses.

  In a duel, a man's hand is cut off (no blood, but the dismemberment is fully shown). Not long after, we get a brief glimpse at the severed hand.

  A man has his eye stabbed with an arrow.

• Profanity Mild

  There is lots of religious swearing throughout the series.

  There is one use of s**t in season 2.

  "Ass", "d**n", "hell", and "crap" are used intermittently. "b**ch" is infrequently said.

• Drugs Moderate

  A girl takes a drug called Vertigo and crashes her car. She is later sent to the hospital and charged for a DWI. (Driving while intoxicated)

  A man falls into a giant tub of a mysterious chemical. We assume at first that he is killed, but turns out he survived. We see later that the chemical made him resistant to pain and he tries to replicate the drug for his gang.

  An underage girl gets intoxicated at a party.

  In a flashback, we see a character buy drugs off of someone multiple times.

  A woman attempts suicide by ingesting Tibetan Pit Viper venom

  A doctor uses an experimental identity eraser.

  A drug called Vertigo is featured in many episodes and we see the effects of its use on people. However, it is shown to be bad to use.

  In later episodes a woman uses prescription meds that are not prescribed to her and has an alcohol addiction.

  People drink champagne at parties, nothing note worthy

  One cop is shown to get drunk at a bar several times.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  This show overall is quite intense and graphic.

  In season 4, an idol is featured that is shown to make the user become more and more powerful by sacrificing people in the vicinity of its presence.

  Season 2- When Mirakuru is injected into someone, they often will start convulsing and screaming. We often will see blood pouring from their eyes.

  In season 2, a homicidal maniac kidnaps several women and pours a polymer down each of their throats. This polymer hardens and suffocates the victim. He then dresses them up as dolls and leaves them out in public for the police to find. Very disturbing.

  A man is injected with Vertigo. He is seen in extreme pain and then shoots himself in the head (offscreen but we hear the shot).

  In one of the flashbacks, a child is seen bleeding from the mouth as a result of a bioweapon. Very sad.

  Suggested MPA Rating (US Viewers only): Rated PG-13 for sequences of strong violence and intense action throughout including bloody images, sensuality, drug content and some suggestive material.

  Some characters unload/take out their problems/woes on other people when they threaten them with weapons.

  A very dark and violent show. Many disturbing and inappropriate scenes for kids.

  Many villains are dangerous and may be considered scary by young children.

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