STRANGER THINGS: Season 3: Chapter 5: The Flayed

(C, BB, ACAC, CapCap, Pa, O, LLL, VVV, D, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

  Light Christian, redemptive, worldview with strong moral, anti-communist, pro-capitalist elements includes a character notices someone is making the first move and calls it an “olive branch,” a child character mentions communism with disdain, plus a comment is made about a Greek mythological character, and an evil monster possesses humans and makes them do bad things;

Foul Language:

  34 obscenities, 11 profanities (including several mentioning Jesus and a “Holy Mother of God” comment) implied urinating, and urine depicted apart from the character using the bathroom;

Violence:

  Some very strong and strong violence includes a character jokingly threatens to slit someone’s throat, character gagged, gunfights including one moment with a gun point at someone’s head, a character gets a nosebleed, characters chase after one another, character gets hit with a fire extinguisher in the head and stabbed with scissors in the back, a different character gets stabbed with scissors in the chest, character smashes a vase on someone’s head, one character gets knocked out after a struggle, hospital patients depicted with blood on their person and some lay on the ground, choking, characters possessed by an interdimensional creature convulse and turn into goo;

Sex:

  No sex;

Nudity:

  No sex;

Alcohol Use:

  No alcohol;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

  Smoking and character buys cigarettes at a gas station; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

  Strong miscellaneous immorality includes teenager yells at his mother, lying, name-calling including one character calls a Russian “Smirnoff” multiple times because he doesn’t care to use his real name, breaking and entering, stealing a car, and kidnapping.