

For families with older kids, Maya and the Three is fantastic whole-family viewing. The plot touches on mature themes including death and infidelity. Language is limited to cursing-adjacent phrases like "dang it" and "oh my gods." There's pretty frequent verbal hostility as characters make threats against one another's lives. While injuries are largely slapstick in nature and not gory, you can expect a fair bit of scariness, including lots of ominous foreboding and characters in various degrees of peril (though the humor makes it seem like everything is going to be OK). The fantasy violence is a major plot point and includes fistfighting and use of weapons like swords. Maya (voiced by Zoe Saldana) and her warrior family approach fighting with glee, and teenage Maya's behavior is justified as being necessary to save the human race. The movie-like animation and storytelling are superb, but the recurring violence means littler kids should sit this one out. Parents need to know that Maya and the Three is an epic miniseries about a Mesoamerican warrior princess from the mind of Jorge R.

