Netflix adds warning to Stranger Things episode after Texas shooting

Netflix has added a last-minute content material warning to the opening episode of the newest season of Stranger Issues, in wake of the college taking pictures in Texas that left 21 folks lifeless, together with 19 youngsters.

The primary episode of the present’s fourth season will premiere worldwide on Friday, simply days after the mass taking pictures at Robb elementary college in Uvalde. The season reportedly opens with a telekinetic bloodbath that features the depiction of a number of lifeless youngsters coated in blood.

“We filmed this season of Stranger Issues a yr in the past,” the warning reads. “However given the current tragic taking pictures at a faculty in Texas, viewers might discover the opening scene of episode one distressing. We’re deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts exit to each household mourning a liked one.”

A Netflix spokesperson instructed the Hollywood Reporter: “We determined so as to add the cardboard given the proximity of the premiere to this tragedy – and since the opening scene may be very graphic.”

The warning will solely present for viewers within the US.

Netflix has additionally edited the episode description to incorporate: “Warning: Accommodates graphic violence involving youngsters.”

After the Uvalde taking pictures on Tuesday, Lifetime delayed the discharge of TV film The Dangerous Seed Returns, a few murderous highschool pupil, whereas CBS pulled the season finale of procedural drama FBI, initially scheduled to air that night. The episode reportedly included a storyline involving a pupil’s doable involvement in a lethal theft.