• Director(s)

    Stacie Passon

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Samantha Morton, Amrita Acharia, Barry Atsma

TV Show

The Serpent Queen

THE SERPENT QUEEN is a US historical drama series; in this episode, the Pope arranges a marriage for Catherine.…

THE SERPENT QUEEN is a US historical drama series; in this episode, the Pope arranges a marriage for Catherine.

  • Director(s)

    Stacie Passon

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Samantha Morton, Amrita Acharia, Barry Atsma

sexually abusive behaviour, strong sex, sex references, language
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong violence, sex, sex references, language
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
very strong language, strong violence, sex, nudity
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, sex, nudity, violence, threat, injury detail
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
very strong language, strong violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, bloody violence, nudity
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong violence, injury detail, sex, very strong language
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
07/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
sexually abusive behaviour, strong sex, sex references, language
Classified Date:
22/08/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as other terms such as 'bitch' and 'shit'.
sex
There is brief sight of a threesome, with breast nudity. There are verbal references to bestiality and being 'sodomised with a hairbrush'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A young royal couple are compelled to consummate their marriage in front of the court. A young woman is made to undergo a test of her virginity. There is a reference to 'fiddling with little boys'.
additional issues
There is a scene of abuse when a nun slaps and canes an orphan girl in her charge. There is other moderate violence. A woman takes her own life, without strong detail. A crazed man beats his head against a column. There are moderate bloody images.
strong violence, sex, sex references, language
Classified Date:
22/08/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is shot and a man is stabbed in the neck. In a tense scene, a non-violent man is forced to kill somebody.
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and uses of 'tits', 'shit' 'arse', 'bloody', 'Christ' and 'God'.
sex
There are scenes of strong sex, which include thrusting detail, buttock nudity and implied oral sex. A man is offended when he sees a crude drawing of himself receiving anal sex from the Pope, but the image doesn't feature graphic detail.
additional issues
Women in court are subject to harassment; for example a footman asks a maid to show him her 'tits', and a man tells a little person that he has always wanted to "f**k a dwarf". The episode does not endorse discriminatory behaviour. There is also a brief disturbing image in which a woman has a vision of a priest hanging by a noose and brief sight of a dead body.
very strong language, strong violence, sex, nudity
Classified Date:
06/09/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is executed by being stretched. There is brief sight of a limb tearing away from his body.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') as well as uses of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'bitch', 'piss', 'arsehole', 'shit', 'balls', 'bastard' and 'God'.
sex
There are frequent scenes of sex. Notable scenes include one in which a man enters a woman from behind until climax, and another in which a man performs oral sex on a woman. There are also scenes in which men and women embrace and position themselves for intercourse. Verbal references to sex also feature.
nudity
A woman's breasts are visible as she gets up from bed, having just had sex.
additional issues
A man calls a little person a 'freak' and says that they repulse him; a white maid refers to a Black person as an 'it'. A woman is attacked by men who pull her from her horse.
strong language, sex, nudity, violence, threat, injury detail
Classified Date:
06/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is tied to a cross and flogged briefly in an act of self-decreed religious penitence. There is sight of blood on his shoulders and a subsequent reference to his death from the ordeal.
threat and horror
A man’s wrists and ankles are tied with ropes attached to horses in the establishment of a brutal punishment in which he is to be torn apart. There is brief sight of blood under him.
language
There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘prick’, ‘balls’, ‘bollocks’, ‘shit’, ‘merde’, ‘dick’, bloody’, ‘tits’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.
sex
A woman disrobes to reveal breast and buttock nudity before kneeling in front of a man to perform implied oral sex on him. There are other sex scenes which feature thrusting. There are moderate sex references which include comments about masturbation and sexual positions.
injury detail
A severed head, with sight of the gory neck stump and maggots crawling in the orifices, is tipped from a sack and shocks a watching crowd.
additional issues
There is emotional distress as a woman endures painful childbirth which delivers a stillborn baby. There are demonstrations of historical sexist behaviour.
very strong language, strong violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
06/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man’s throat is slashed with a sword in bloody fashion and he dies in a pool of his own blood.
language
There is very strong language (‘c**t’), as well as strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include uses of ‘whore’, ‘cock’, ‘tits’, ‘piss’, ‘arse’, ‘arsehole’, ‘shit’ and ‘hell’.
injury detail
A shot of a severed head includes sight of the gory neck stump and maggots crawling in the orifices.
additional issues
There is moderate knife threat, sex references and natural male buttock nudity.
strong language, violence, bloody images, nudity
Classified Date:
06/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man’s throat is slashed with a sword in bloody fashion. There is also moderate violence in a jousting contest where a man is struck with a lance and toppled from his horse, and in a dream sequence in which a woman is pushed out of a high window.
language
There is strong language (‘f**k’), as well as milder terms such as ‘whore’, ‘piss’, ‘balls’, ‘God’, ‘damn’ and ‘Christ’.
nudity
There is sexualised breast and buttock nudity.
additional issues
There is mild innuendo.
strong violence, injury detail, sex, very strong language
Classified Date:
13/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There is a scene of strong gory violence where a man is pinned against a wall and has a wooden peg is nailed into his eye. This includes detailed sight of the peg being pulled out and the man bleeding out.
language
There is infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t'), more frequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('bitch', 'shit', 'God', 'hell').
sex
There is a scene where a woman reaches climax after it is implied that a man performs oral sex on her. There are strong sex references.
strong language, violence, injury detail
Classified Date:
13/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman cuts a man's little finger off, with strong bloody impact detail. A woman stabs a man. A group of people are attacked in the woods; people are shot with arrows and slashed with swords, though the violence isn't that bloody. There are frequent scenes of gun and knife threat.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') as well as milder terms such as 'bitch', 'twat' and 'piss'.
injury detail
There are repeated images of a man's severed finger.
additional issues
A man makes a passing reference to opiates. A woman compels her son to die by suicide.
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very strong language
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, nudity, sex references
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, violence
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, drug misuse
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, sex, violence
Classified Date:
11/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language
Classified Date:
12/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, sex, drug misuse
Classified Date:
12/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
strong language, bloody violence, sex, nudity
Classified Date:
12/03/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
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  • Classified date

    22/08/2022

  • Distributor

    Starz.

  • Language

    English