• Director(s)

    Saul Dibb

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Timothy Spall, Eanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey, Anne Reid

TV Show

The Sixth Commandment

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT is a British drama series; in this episode, Peter's connection with a student develops quickly into something stronger.…

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT is a British drama series; in this episode, Peter's connection with a student develops quickly into something stronger.

  • Director(s)

    Saul Dibb

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Timothy Spall, Eanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey, Anne Reid

moderate threat, sex references, infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
08/08/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A man has episodes of illness in which he hallucinates and his body shakes. During one such episode as the man calls for help, he trips and falls down the stairs.
language
Strong language ('f**k') is used infrequently. There is also use of milder terms including 'piss' and 'shat'.
sex
There are moderate sex references, including brief allusions to pornography and masturbation.
additional issues
After having been scratched, a man has cuts on his face. Homophobia is alluded to, including in references to the discriminative attitude of religious groups, but discrimination is clearly condemned. A passing reference is made to opium in the context of a poem mentioning the drug. There are references to death.
strong language
Classified Date:
09/08/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’) as well as milder terms (‘bitch’, ‘balls’, ‘Christ’).
additional issues
Blood is visible on a woman's face after she injures herself falling over, and later she is seen with a partially healed cut and bruising around her nose. In a scene of moderate threat, a woman is found having collapsed from an unknown illness, her life in danger. A man is suspected of murder. There are infrequent mild sex references. Scenes of emotional upset occur, including when characters grieve at a funeral for a loved one.
very strong language
Classified Date:
10/08/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), strong language ('f**k'), milder terms ('wanker', 'piss', 'shit', 'arse'), and a discriminatory term ('retard').
additional issues
The diary of a man who was systematically drugged include a simple outline drawing of a man with his penis exposed, as well as references to his own declining mental and physical condition. A policeman tells a woman they have found intimate photographs of her mother, and to which she did not consent. There are verbal references to the systematic drugging of victims, as well as references to the exhumation of a man's corpse and to the body's stomach contents. However, there is no visual detail.
infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, threat
Classified Date:
09/08/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
Flashback scenes which build up to an unseen murder contain moments of moderate threat as a man watches his older victim struggling to stand and breathe while intoxicated. We hear that a man fantasised about killing another with a hammer.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms which include 'bloody', 'shit', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'. There is use of the discriminatory term 'faggot'.
sex
It is claimed that a man used the internet to satisfy his sexual fantasy life. There are undetailed verbal references to sexual relationships a man entered into by behaving in a manipulative way toward older men and women, and to a man taking 'intimate pictures' of a woman.
additional issues
We hear that a man drugged several elderly people to keep them under his control. Characters drink alcohol and are seen becoming drunk. There are scenes of emotional upset as people hear accounts of their loved ones being taken advantage of or murdered.
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  • Classified date

    08/08/2023

  • Distributor

    Spirit Entertainment

  • Language

    English