CITADEL: Episode 1.1-2: “The Human Enigma” and “Spies Appear in Night Time”

(BB, PC, Ho, LLL, VVV, S, A, M):

Strong moral worldview about stopping an evil organization funded by eight of the richest families in the world using nefarious means to accumulate wealth and power, and hero is fighting to protect his family, plus a politically correct homosexual element in one scene where a man’s ex-wife introduces another woman as her “wife”

Episode 1.1 has seven “f” words, three other obscenities, one Jesus profanity, one light profanity and Episode 1.2 has 18 “f” words, five other obscenities, one Jesus profanity, six light profanities

Strong, intense action violence in first two episodes, but some of it has some slightly excessive bloodletting and shootings and stabbings, including two men fight in a restroom with fists and shards of glass and a knife-like gadget and a gun until one breaks a window and kicks his opponent out (some blood from a glass shard being plunged into one’s leg, and a body flies out a window and hits the ground, presumably dying on impact), a man and woman fight many assailants on a train with handguns and shotguns and improvised weapons like forks (many fatalities, some with blood splattering on walls), woman’s leg is inured, a man derails a train by committing suicide with a powerful grenade, two men stand in a room with many bloody bodies of people they have apparently been recently interrogating (much blood on floors and bodies), a man plays a card game with people tied to chairs before executing them with a pistol shot to the head (some blood splatter), a man kidnaps a family, a man puts a family to sleep with an unspecified gas in a van, a man throws a knife at a man’s head, and the man catches it, some images of worldwide wars and disasters, a wounded woman wakes up in a man’s house and fights for her life with many improvised weapons against the man who looks like he wanted to rape her, there is some wrestling and punching and slashing and stabbing until she finally kills her opponent (many painful bouts of hand-to-hand combat culminate in an object being pushed into a person’s abdomen, with blood pouring from the wound, until the person dies); a dead body is shown in a pool of blood several times, a man is shot while driving a car but survives (there’s blood on his head and shoulders), a man and woman fight another man in a restaurant, a man stabs a man and wrenches the knife in the wound, a man mercilessly beats a woman, and a woman stabs a man in the back and kicks him unconscious

A married couple sit on a bed in preparation for sex, but their child’s cries interrupt them, and it’s implied in one scene that a man intends to rape a woman

No explicit nudity but a woman wears a dress that reveals a great deal of cleavage

Some social drinking

No smoking or drugs; and,

The head of an international spy organization says his group has been fighting to keep the world safe for 100 years because the world’s national spy groups have been starting wars, committing assassinations and creating trouble, and he hides several things from the hero for what he, apparently, thinks is “the greater good,” but there’s a hint of moral relativism and moral expediency in his perspective, which could be resolved in future episodes.