Content & Trigger Warnings for Narcos (2015)

Racial dynamics and prejudice between American and Colombian characters explored

The death and disappearance of children is central to the plot, with bodies discovered

Children die in the time travel conflicts and parents must confront their losses

Children die in the apocalypse and multiple child characters face death or erasure from existence

Parent deaths occur and characters witness their parents in different timelines

Multiple parent deaths and the realization that saving the world means some parents will never exist

Pervasive grief as families cope with missing children and unexplained deaths across timelines

Grief intensifies as characters lose loved ones across timelines and learn devastating truths about their families

The final season is saturated with grief as characters face the potential erasure of their entire existence

Suicidal despair is a theme as characters confront impossible time loop situations

Multiple characters contemplate suicide as they face predetermined fates

Characters accept their own deaths or erasure as necessary to save others, blurring the line between sacrifice and suicide

Car bombs and vehicle crashes occur in multiple episodes

Characters lie about their knowledge of the disappearances and family secrets span generations

Characters with knowledge of the future manipulate others to ensure events unfold as they must

Adam, Eva, and Claudia manipulate characters across timelines to serve their competing agendas

Mass killings and systematic violence against entire communities depicted

Multiple affairs between characters are revealed, with connections across generations creating complex betrayals

Continued revelations of affairs and secret relationships across generations

Affairs and secret relationships continue to be revealed across the three interconnected worlds

Multiple children go missing in Winden, with their disappearances and captivity central to the plot

Child disappearances continue across multiple timelines as the conspiracy deepens

Characters are taken across timelines against their will

The impending nuclear apocalypse looms as a threat throughout the season

The apocalypse occurs and is shown, with the destruction of Winden central to the plot

The Avianca Flight 203 bombing is depicted in the series

Military operations and paramilitary combat against cartels depicted

Extreme amounts of blood in frequent and graphic violent scenes

Children found dead with burned eyes and burst eardrums from the time travel experiments

Time travel effects cause physical deterioration and disfigurement in some characters

Time travel effects and the physical consequences of the loop create disturbing imagery

The Winden caves are dark, narrow, and claustrophobic, featured extensively as the time travel passage

The caves and bunker remain central claustrophobic settings

Cave passages and bunker settings continue in the final season

Several sudden reveals and frightening moments in the caves and bunker

Sexual content and nudity in some episodes

Time travel reveals that some couples are unknowingly related, creating disturbing incestuous family trees

The full family tree reveals multiple incestuous relationships created by the time loop, some unknowing

Human trafficking operations connected to drug cartels shown

Sexual coercion by powerful cartel figures over subordinates and victims

Heavy drinking depicted among DEA agents and cartel members

Teenage characters use marijuana and some pills

The cocaine trade is the central subject with production, trafficking, and use shown extensively

Drug overdose and addiction consequences depicted

Children are kidnapped and subjected to dangerous experiments in a bunker beneath the nuclear plant

Children continue to be endangered and experimented upon by time-traveling factions

Origin stories reveal cycles of child abuse and endangerment that created the time loop

Domestic violence within cartel families and relationships depicted

Extremely graphic violence including dismemberment, torture killings, and mutilated bodies

Constant and graphic gunfights, assassinations, and cartel shootouts throughout

DEA and Colombian police brutality and corruption depicted extensively

A character dies by hanging, shown on screen, and the aftermath deeply affects the community

Multiple suicides occur as characters are overwhelmed by the impossibility of their situations

Suicide occurs as characters sacrifice themselves to break the time loop

Sexual violence is depicted or referenced in some storylines

Forced labor in cocaine production depicted

Prolonged and graphic torture scenes are a regular feature of the cartel storylines