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Rick & Morty for 13 year old?

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cakedup · 08/03/2018 22:48

Opinions on if this is suitable for a 13 year old? I know it's rated 15. I don't mind the swearing.
Caught DS watching it and he claims all his friends at school do.

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SimonBridges · 08/03/2018 22:51

I love it. It’s very funny but it is very adult humour.
It’s not the swearing so much as the sex. You don’t see any as I recall but it is very much alluded to.

You know your child best though.

SuperLoudPoppingAction · 08/03/2018 22:52

It's a bit dark but funny.
Would recommend you watch it yourself and judge but I think it's ok.
I think a lot of children that age do watch it
But in the most recent series there's a parallel world where a man was abandoned by one of the main characters when he was a child. He molests the indigenous fauna and eats the resulting infants. So that level of dark.
Then he is killed by aforementioned main character then cloned.

Jacky22 · 09/03/2018 08:04

My daughter 14 years old thinks this is great and I watched a couple of episodes with her and thought it was rubbish, don't like the fact that the granddad, can't remember if it is Rick or Morty, is an alcoholic and, yes I agree the sex humour is a bit gross. I think a by far superior and equally dark and funnier one is on Netflix, Bojack Horseman. Now there's a really deep exploration of the whole gamut of human experience. Funnily enough Bojack also has a drink problem, but just the way it is portrayed is so much truer to life, and it is really thought-provoking. I'm totally hooked.

cakedup · 11/03/2018 11:40

Wow I don't remember writing this thread I must have been half asleep! Don't mind the alcoholic in it either. Will have to check out the sex humour. While it's not ideal I want to pick my battles. I mean I'm sure there is enough gross sex humour going on at school anyway. Will look at bojack, if it's less offensive then maybe can steer him that way.

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Jacky22 · 11/03/2018 12:19

Bojack could be considered actually to be very offensive depending on how much exposure your 13 year old has had to watching adult stuff. I forgot to mention it also has drugs. But it's such a hilarious send up of the LA TV and film stars scene/set, you get a lot of big moral themes running through it, it runs for several seasons and whilst the first few episodes are a bit hard to get used to, it grows and grows on you. It has led to me and my 14 year old having a lot of really mature discussions about what's right and wrong. She watched the whole series before I even knew about it, several times, and now we're watching it together. It all depends on how mature your teen is. Mine is very much so for her age, in some respects.

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