Red Oaks (TV-MA) is a popular Prime series rated 18+ by Common Sense.
I feel the TV-14 pilot was intentionally deceptive, and it obviously influenced how CommonSenseMedia rated the show”. In episode 2 there is a scene showing a woman’s bare backside and breast. “This pilot episode is rated TV-14, but the series as a whole is rated TV-MA. However, in one review, a concerned parent writes: Sneaky Pete (TV-MA) is rated by Common Sense for audiences 15 years old and up, and given 3 out of 5 stars for “overall quality and learning potential”. The woman’s breasts and buttocks are visible”. Going deeper into the types of scenes included in the above tags, several included “a teenage boy ogles a woman”, “a man and woman have sex.
Mozart in the Jungle (TV-MA) is an original Prime program that ran for 4 seasons, depicting the lives of professional classical musicians in New York City. Again, these examples are all from the pilot episode only. Some examples are “a woman makes a joke about sexual assault”, “three nude women are shown”, and “a woman is shown naked”. Looking into the pilot however, we see that there are many tags for graphic content. Maisel (TV-MA) is one of Amazon’s newest series, which recently swept the 2018 Emmy Awards. Some more specific tags include “a man has sex with a woman”, and “a topless woman is shown in bed”.
To drive home just how important parental controls are on Amazon Prime, we looked at 6 of the top original TV shows from Prime Video on the filtering service VidAngel to see what sort of exact content is being shown.
To learn more about how to set your parental controls, click here. Some Amazon products require separate control settings and must be done from the device specifically, such as the Fire TV, Fire tablets and phones, and Xbox 360 devices. Prime also categorizes their content into General, Family, Teen, and Mature to help guide parents on what is appropriate for their personal situations and families. Amazon uses MPAA and TV official guidelines for ratings, such as G, PG, and R, or TV-Y, TV-PG, or TV-MA as examples. Prime offers PIN protection on ratings categories for film, and television. This is currently done through a PIN set by parents, so account holders have control over what content can be both purchased and watched. Additionally, many of these programs are becoming increasingly popular with critics and on social media, potentially exposing younger audiences to sexually explicit material.Īmazon Prime currently offers parental controls to block this sort of content from reaching our children. These shows are readily available for anyone with an Amazon Prime account, including your children and teenagers. Prime not only provides that legendary free shipping, but also many of its own productions. The Amazon Prime streaming service is an entertaining resource for at-home television and movies, but are you aware of the content on their many original shows?Īmazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos recently reported that Prime now has over 100 million subscribers.