STRANGER THINGS: Season 3: Chapter 1: Suzie, Do You Copy?

(B, FR, LLL, VV, S, N, A, D, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

  Slight moral worldview as a character wants to establish boundaries for his adopted daughter out of care for her, a quick biblical reference when a character says, “let there be light,” and mention of a character being Mormon and confusion about the difference between the Amish people and Mormonism;

Foul Language:

  29 obscenities often involving teenage characters (mainly “s” and “d” words) and four profanities;

Violence:

  Strong violence, character dies in a lab explosion, and their singed bodies and blood are shown, a character is choked to death, character mistakenly sprays friend with hairspray in the eyes, character has a nosebleed, rats blow up spilling their guts everywhere, and a teenage character is captured by some monster;

Sex:

  Implied fornication when teenage characters wake up in bed together, teenage character invites married adult woman to meet him at a hotel and layers his invitation with sexual innuendo, woman dolls herself up to go meet him but does experience remorse as she looks at her husband and child, teenage characters make out, but father-figure is adamant about instilling physical boundaries between the two, female character reads an erotic novel, journalist makes an inappropriate comment about a woman’s breasts;

Nudity:

  Characters in swimsuits (including some bikinis) during pool scenes, female character shown getting dressed, upper male nudity, and male character depicted in boxers;

Alcohol Use:

 Characters drink a beer and have a glass of wine at dinner;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

  Characters smoke, including a teenager;

Miscellaneous Immorality:

  Siblings call each other names, lying, teenager shows an adult disrespect, character allows other characters to sneak into a movie without paying.