Illustration by Nishant Choksi
TV-AWK
Program may include intense sexual situations; parents are advised to watch in a different room than their children.
TV-NW
Although program contains nudity, it’s not really worth spending the hour watching the program.
TV-BNGE
Show will not seem as poorly written as it is if you binge-watch all of the episodes in one sitting.
TV-NOPO
Program contains a series of hints, clues, and narrative foreshadowing that will in no way be paid off in the season finale.
TV-13
Strong Jewish themes; only appropriate for children who have already had bar or bat mitzvahs.
TV-EMY
Program contains desperate film actor hoping to revive career by winning an Emmy.
TV-SOS
Show may include subtle cry for help from its writers.
TV-CYA
Viewers are warned that addictive nature of program may slowly replace sex in relationship with significant other.
TV-FNZ
Program contains strong performance by Henry Winkler.
TV-ADJ
Show may contain crude, indecent, intense, suggestive, strong, coarse, graphic, explicit, or sexual adjectives.
TV-BK
Show is based on a book that’s necessary reading for understanding what the hell is going on.
TV-TV-14
Program only appropriate for children in programs that are only appropriate for children over the age of fourteen.
TV-ML
Parents are advised that this program contains obnoxious attempts to appeal to millennials.
TV-CYNC
Nationwide popularity of program may cause loss of faith in humanity.
TV-WIRE
Program may result in viewer acting patronizingly offended when they discover that a friend hasn’t seen it yet.
TV-FL
Program may contain three-dimensional female lead.
