STRANGER THINGS: Season 3: Chapter 4: The Sauna Test

(CC, BB, PP, CapCap, Fe, LL, VVV, N, A, D, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

  Strong Christian, moral worldview with strong American, capitalist values where characters are genuinely concerned for the safety of others, a child character talks about being valued for extending her help, characters also attempt an exorcism of sorts to get a foreign creature out of its host subtle, a grand mention of the benefits of capitalism, and a positive mother and daughter talk about not being taken seriously by the world and not accepting responsibility for your actions marred by some feminist comments;

Foul Language:

  15 obscenities, one strong profanity, eight light profanities, and one character thinks he threw up;

Violence:

  Very strong and strong violence involves creature sucks the faces of two characters that are held captive, guards hold guns, two men get into a fight and blood is shown, and one man eventually handcuffs the other man to a bedpost, teenage characters lock a character who might be possessed into a sauna, choking shown, and character gets thrown through a brick wall and gets a rack of weights thrown at him;

Sex:

  No sex;

Nudity:

  Upper male nudity for scenes in a sauna, and one scene with implied frontal male nudity, but audiences only see an upper thigh;

Alcohol Use:

  Liquor seen in an office;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

  No smoking but a character takes medication, mention of a political figure doing cocaine, and a chief of police who has a pill-popping problem; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

  Lying, sneaking around, character spits at others in protest.