For anyone immersed in gaming culture, Dead Pixels will likely feel familiar and entertaining. Meg doesn’t hold back when talking about her desire to engage in the act with various men-the details of which it seems her friends would prefer to be spared. However, it’s still pretty obvious what is being said, and we hear plenty of other profanities, including predominantly British ones such as “bloody,” and “slag.”Īnd although it seems like we might be spared any nudity or sex scenes at this early stage, sex is not wholly absent from the show. When the show made the jump across the pond from the United Kingdom (where it originally aired in 2019) the CW decided to bleep out the harsher profanities, such as the f-word and s-word. Kingdom Scrolls has all the same issues that most real life massive multiplayer online role-playing games do: violent deaths via beheadings and monster attacks (complete with pixelated bloodshed), inappropriate costumes on female avatars and a certain cavalier attitude towards murdering other players in the game. Like the characters at its heart, this CW show revolves around a video game.

And Nicky-well, you saw what he had to say. Usman fails to find a healthy balance between playing the game and caring for his children. Meg struggles to find love since she skips out on dates to address gaming emergencies. So much so that it actually interferes with their real, day-to-day lives. But for these hard-core grinders obsessed with the online role-playing game Kingdom Scrolls, gaming is life.

“And it’ll trigger a tiny dopamine rush in the mesolimbic pathway of my frontal lobes, and for that second, I will momentarily forget about death.” “When I have enough experience points, I’ll level up, and there’ll be a little red banner on screen and a tinging sound,” Nicky says. What is it about video games that draws people in? Is it the graphics? The storyline? The camaraderie built with other online players? Well, for best friends Meg, Nicky and Usman, it’s a bit of all three … and maybe a chemical component, as well.

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