Parents Guide

El Latido Occulto is rated TV-14 for sexual content, frequent nudity, suggestive dialogue, coarse language, mild violence, frequent druge and alchohal use.

Season 1:

Sex & Nudity:

• The entire series offers an explicit view of the latino youth culture of the ’90s.
• There are a lot of sexual lyrics in songs.
• Dance moves including thrusting, skirt lifting, making out and many other sexual moves. One of the teen couples are seen dancing seductively by teen boy flipping the girl over him and dancing with her under him.
• Adrian removes a girl's shirt and has difficulty undoing her bra. He uses scissors to cut off the garment. The sex is not shown.
• Two drag queens are seen making out in a bar.
• Mention of orgasms
• A girl arises from a bath with no clothes on - only her back is shown.
• There is a lot of (passionate) kissing.
• Teens kissing and caressing on a bed, Sexual situations (No actual sex).
• Sexual references. 
• Lots of flirting.
• There are scenes that take place in in a character's bedroom and there are a couple of posters on the wall with a very sexual image.

Violence & Gore:

• The opening scene is quite intense: A teenage girl flees her house while while it's being raided by the police. A woman (possibly her foster mother) catches up to her a begins to beat her, punching and cursing at her and slaming her against a wall, all while the girl screams and begs her to stop. The girl knees the woman in the crotch and runs away, the woman is then detained by a police officer. The girl is later seen with a bloody eye and bruises on her cheek.
• While sleeping a girl has a nightmare about her foster mother beating her and cursing at her.
• A girl admits to a boy that she was frequently beaten by her foster mother. She is seen with bruises on her stomach.
• A catfight breaks out between two girls: one shoves and slaps another, the other girl grabs her and after they struggle a bit, she tackles her to the ground and repeataly punches her in the face. They are interrupted by another student.

• There is a brief fight between two boys, one boy punches the other in the face, giving him a bloody nose.
• A girl with PTSD, has a panic attack in a stuck elevator, racalls at a young age, being dragged by her hair and locked into a closet by a prostitute. 

Profanity:

• Multiple instances of profane language among the young protagonists, including  "Hell", "damn", "dick", "ass"  "asshat" "douchebag," and "son of a bitch".
• Vulgar slang in spanish is often.

Drinking, Drugs, & Smoking:

• Young adults smoke and occasionally drink.

Season 2:

Sex & Nudity:

• There are 2 love scenes in this season (not explicit or graphic)
  • A girl calls a boy to meet up. Some kissing as the couple falls back on a bed afterwords, the girl is seen putting boots back on after they have sex (he has his shirt off).
  • A shirtless man hugs and kisses a fully clothed woman. Thy fall back on a bed, sex is implied
• Men are shown in their underwear.
• Many kissing scenes.
• A student saying, "I want to ball" (have sex). A woman says to a man, "But I guess you'll stick your thing in anything".
• A female student comments on Adrian's body and makes a comment about licking the sweat off it (or something like that)
• A man places his head between a woman's knees.
• A young man buys an album with a partially nude male on the cover, the side of his buttocks can be seen.
• Young men and women are shown in their underwear/bathing suits several times.
• It is implied that 4 men were masturbating in a car, they walk out panting, and one of them forces them to all wash their hands.
• A man and a woman are seen fully clothed cuddling in a bed.

Violence & Gore:

• Couples arguing

Profanity:

• Constant swearing by young adults including "asshat", "badass", "bastard," "bitch," "damn," "hell," "piss," "slut," "dick"  "shit" is almost said, a woman flips off a man.

Drinking, Drugs, & Smoking:

• At a slumber party, a group of girls drink champagne from the bottle.
• Young adults drink and smoke
• The four main girls, Santana, Jade, Loma and Juanira go to a bar and drink alcohol. 

Season 3:

Sex & Nudity:

• There are 5 love scenes in this season (not explicit or graphic).
  • A man and a woman have sex, see only shoulders and above.
  • A woman drops her robe in front of a man revealing her naked body. The two are later seen in bed, under sheets, his bare back is seen as he lays next to her.
  • A couple is shown lying on the floor with the woman in her slip and him on top of her, they sit up, she comes onto him very strongly and rips his shirt open, the scene cuts before anything happens.
  • A brief scene of a couple having sex outside during some stage events.
  • After having sex, a man and a woman are seen lying naked in bed together; his torso and her shoulders are shown.
• Lengthy scene of locker room showering with male nudity shown from behind in the background of a discussion. between Adrian and Raphael.
• Plenty of hand-holding, kissing, and making out.
• Four women go skinny dipping, they are shown from behind, buttocks visible for a second.
• A man graphically describes what he would like do to a woman "Well right now, i want slam you onto that table, rip off you're clothes, kiss every inch of you're body, and have you screaming my name so loud, that the people outside would wish they were us!"
• A hand gesture is made that resembles masturbation.
• Several women are referred to as fine, sexy or beautiful.
• There are several scenes in which men are shirtless or have their bare chest showing while wearing a jacket.

Violence & Gore:

• A man grabs Santana, she throws him onto a table.
• A car accident leaves a man with a fractured knee, another man with bruises on his face, and another man with glass in his hand.

Profanity:

• Stronger and more frequent than in previous seasons: "f--k," is almost said "badass," "s--t," "prick," "dick," "bitch," "pissing," "damn," and the occasional exclamation of "Jesus" and "Christ"

Drinking, Drugs, & Smoking:

• Characters are shown drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and/or smoking pot. 

Season 4:

Sex & Nudity:

• There are 4 love scenes in this season (not explicit, or graphic)
  • A couple passionately makes out; they are still wearing most of their clothing and are shown from the chest up when they appear to start having sex.(The man is shirtless, and the girl is in langerie.
  • There is a mild love scene between a man and a woman, with brief nudity from the woman, After having sex with him, she is seen topless from the shoulders up in the mirror for a few seconds.
  • A woman walks in on a man and woman It is implied the man is giving her head but it is shown very quickly.
  •  Loma loses her virginity to Emmanuel--they are seen making out. They remove each others coats and scars, showing Emmanuel bare chest and Loma in her bra. She gets out a condom, the lights go out briefly, once they come back on he is shown laying on the bed in his underwear and Loma standing in from of a mirror presumably naked, though the shot of her is from the shoulders up.
• Tomas discovers a friend is having a secret homosexual romance with a popular boy. 
• References to gay sex (some petting on screen, and a couple lying in bed), and a major plot point concerning a young man's sexual identity.
• A very suggestive and sensual seduction scene between two characters, nothing graphic shown and shown with class.
• Tito is shown drawing a nude woman briefly.
• There are many kissing scenes between Adrian and Santana.
• A young man suggest a young woman "get on her knees", but she turns him down.

Profanity:

• "Damn," "screw," "nuts," "slut," "ass," "Hell," "bitch," "prick," and "scumbag."

Season 5:

Sex & Nudity:

• There are 4 sex scenes in this season (not explicit, or graphic)
  • A man joins a woman in the shower, he passionately kisses her, sex is implied.
• A man discusses his girlfriend being angry just so they can have make-up sex.

Profanity:

• 25 uses of "God," 3 uses of "God dammit," 3 uses of "Jesus," 7 uses of "Christ," 3 uses of "bitch," 1 "asshat," 13 "ass," 26 "damn" or "damned," 21 uses of "hell," 4 "bastard," 8 "pissed"

Drinking, Drugs, & Smoking:

• Smoking and drinking throughout

Season 6:

Sex & Nudity:

• There are 3 semi-graphic sex scenes in this season, actors are nude but nothing is shown.
  • A girl flirts with a guy; they kiss and have sex. They are both clothed and the scene is brief, we only see the girl thrusting on top of him and hear the guy moaning.