Content question

There is a short dark, grainy home video of vigorous naked sex collected as evidence in the early episodes: it is aurally not visually explicit. Otherwise, no nudity I can recall; if any, it is momentary.

Apart from one blood stained room, there is no gore. There are some short grisly close ups of injuries to the corpse in the usual TV forensic crime drama manner.

The BBC subtitled version raised complaints that minor and middling expletives in the Danish dialogue were universally translated as the F-word. It did not seem excessive to me but some folk are particularly sensitive to language.

'The Killing' is a noir thriller so plainly concentrates on the darker side of human nature. The action is understated so the issues of your concern mainly implied and discussed rather than openly seen.

The victim was beaten, raped, abducted, and murdered over a weekend. Apart from the opening scene of the distraught partially clothed victim being chased through the woods, none of this is shown first hand. However, as it is central to the mystery, it is often discussed.