All three seasons of this show contain vivid sex scenes. This includes traditional vaginal intercourse and oral sex. Prostitution and rape are themes present in series one and three. Season one also contains pedophilia.

Graphic violence throughout all three seasons. Season one opens with a womans corpse found in a dumpster. She has been brutally beaten around the face and is naked. Season two opens with the discovery of a man who has been "barbequed" in the trunk of a car. Also contains a scene of a man being tortured with a blowtorch. Season three opens with the discovery of a woman who has had her breasts cut off and her reproductive systems torn out.

All three seasons contain frequent strong language throughout. Includes four letter words and crude sexual references. However all swearing is in french with subtitles.

All three seasons include heavy use of class A drugs such as heroin and cocaine as well as excessive alcohol consumption.

Many of the scenes described in "violence and gore" are frightening and intense. There are also two overdose scenes which could be described thus.