Netflix adds content warning to Stranger Things season 4 premiere after Texas school shooting

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The opening scenes of Stranger Things 4 are similar to the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The new season starts with a short message explaining that viewers may be disturbed by the parallels between the first episode and the real world Texas school shooting that left many people dead. In the days leading up to the premiere of the fourth season of Stranger Things, a video was uploaded to YouTube that was later removed. The first time you play the season 4 premiere, the content warning pops up, but it seems that it only appears when you press play.

The season premiere of The Hellfire Club is a few years earlier than the fourth season. The show's take on a school shooting due to its focus on helpless children losing their lives is very similar to the Hawkins lab massacre.

While Disney and Lucasfilm have not issued statements or warnings about the series premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi, that show, too, opens on a scene of children being murdered in a school setting. It is possible that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things 4 are related to the gruesome school killings. In the wake of what happened in Uvalde, it's hard not to see both shows as having tapped into something profoundly broken about the country they're produced in.