Stranger Things 4 Gets Trigger Warning Following Uvalde School Shooting

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After almost three years of waiting and eager anticipation, Netflix's hit sci-fi seriesStranger Things is back for its fourth season and penultimate season. However, following the recent tragedy in Texas, Netflix has added a warning message to the show's big premiere.

Stranger Thingsfollows the story of a group of misfit kids in the 1980s, who live in the small secluded town of Hawkins, Indiana. Everything is normal in the kids' lives until their best friend, Noah Schnapps' Will Byers, disappears. The group of youngsters sets out to discover the truth behind Will's abrupt disappearance and they begin to discover more of the town's secrets and disclose even more supernatural horrors.

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The Netflix show includes its fair share of violence in addition to the horror elements it brings to the small screen. With the premiere of the newest season of Stranger Things, Netflix executives have decided to add a trigger warning to the series premiere, which comes after the school shooting that occurred on May 24th at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which ended in the tragic loss of 21 people — 19 being children and 2 being staff members. The trigger warning will appear for Netflix's US viewers, before the season recap that plays at the beginning of Stranger Things 4, prior to the first episode's opening sequence that could be found disturbing.

The first Stranger Things season 4 sequence was released prior to the new season's debut as a final teaser. The eight-minute first look graphically displays a massacre and shows the dead bodies of multiple children, with a lot of blood included, which is why Netflix chose to add the disclaimer