What is Arrow about?
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
A billionaire playboy returns from the dead to wage a darkly-comic, gritty war on crime.
Suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video and Pluto TV (free).
Arrow parents guide
Some innuendo or implied sex and mild language, about what a TV-14 should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated TV-14.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Three questions
- Is Arrow scary?
- Only a little. Arrow has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Arrow?
- Light gore and strong violence.
- What is Arrow rated, and is it OK for kids?
- For teens, mostly: it is rated TV-14, with strong violence.
Cast and crew
Created byAndrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim
StarringStephen Amell, David Ramsey, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy, Katherine McNamara, Ben Lewis
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