The Rising

The series starts with a closeup of a young girl floating dead in a lake, then seemingly coming back to life only to discover she was murdered. Close-ups of her battered body, bloody scalp, and strangled neck are shown. At times the protagonist feels intense sadness, fear, or anger about what happened to her. The show often takes on an ominous tone with dark music and imagery such as dead birds dropping from the sky.

There are repeated flashbacks to a night of teenagers partying and drinking. A teenage girl is shown suffering from a hangover the next day, and there's a reference to a father being there "drinking with his teenagers." He's later shown to have slept in his car, surrounded by beer cans, that night.

Young adults and older teenagers kiss their partners passionately. A woman references wanting to paint her husband nude.

There's some mild profanity such as "damn." Rare occurrences of stronger profanity, such as "f--k," are bleeped out.

Neve, her mother, and most of her friends are White. Her stepfather, stepsister and stepbrother are Black. The lead investigator of the murder is a Black woman.