Mild
1782 of 2978 found this mild
Only some of the episodes in the series have kissing scenes.
A picture of a woman in a speedo is shown for 3 secs.
A few kisses.
In one of the season 3 episodes, Lucas accidentally walks into a steam bath room with naked men holding towels over their torsos. He immediately says "I just threw up in my mouth" implying that he saw more than what he wanted to see.
Season 2: Karen is reading in the bathtub bare shoulders can be seen.
Season 2: Will Byers pees in the toilet twice (no explicit nudity) Will is naked under a towel while trying to get into a bath but he refuses. Will later is topless in pajama pants few times his shoulders and back are shown.
In season 2, Steve tells Billy to not cream his pants which is basically telling him to not ejaculate.
In season 1, jonathan is shown taking photos of nancy whilst she is at steve's house, (one being of her undressed in her bra) when he is confronted about it, steve's friends suggest that he was 'saving the photos for later'
In season 4, erica threatens to tell dustin what she found under her brother, lucas', bed. Lucas is visibly shocked and embarrassed.
Jonathan is seen in only underwear while in bed.
Moderate
980 of 2491 found this moderate
A child is strangled by a teenager, but he is stopped before he can kill the child.
Demodogs get inside a lab elevator full of people and attack and feast on them (the actual attack is not shown but you see the aftermath with a moderate amount of blood and dead bodies when the elevator arrives at the next floor).
A man is beaten in his office. First, his head is pushed and slammed into the door, breaking his nose, and he is then repeatedly punched (we only hear this from outside the locked door) and then is thrown over his desk. After this, his finger is forced into a cigar slicer and the person beating him pushes down on it almost cutting his finger, but stops after his answers are given. He is then taken hostage, but not further hurt. His face is bloody all throughout the episode.
Lots of characters are killed throughout the series, occasionally quite brutally but most of it is moderate.
In a hospital, there is a chase scene which is somewhat gory. A man is stabbed with scissors - blood spurts out. One man's nose is broken, but the blood is black. At the end, their skins melts into chunks of blood.
In the early season 1 there is a monster with an appearance which is slimy and sticky but not gory.
In season 3 two men die with their bodies melting and all their guts and blood moving by them self to form a monster. This can make any squeamish people watching feel very disgusted and horrified. Most of the show is nowhere near this gory though.
Season 4 is the goriest season. It has graphic violence with kids being killed in the first episode (this might be disturbing for some people)
A character is shown with a bloody nose frequently throughout the series.
A man is stabbed in the neck with scissors. Not too graphic.
Moderate
1207 of 2066 found this moderate
Shit, bitch, asshole, pussy, dick, douchebag, slut, fag. Obscene gestures also used.
Whore can be heard in some episodes.
Shit is used quite frequently in every season.
Fuck is said once in season 3.
Mild
1173 of 1791 found this mild
Alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use. Characters willingly take, or are dosed with "drugs/pills" which cause them to hallucinate or pass out.
Hopper is seen with cigarettes in multiple scenes.
A character is seen with a bong. No usage of it is on screen. That same character is also almost always show high on weed.
Severe
1134 of 2202 found this severe
Seasons 1 and 2 are more suspenseful than violent, but season 3 basically flips that, choosing to show much more violence and gory imagery. Season 4 follows suit of season 3, but in a more violent way. The entirety of season 3 has some gory scenes of rats and humans exploding into piles of flesh and bones and moving with gory sound effects.
The monster from season 3 can be pretty frightening, but the scariest monsters come from season 4.
The final episodes of each season are very intense, particularly in season 4.
Season 3 comes with a warning mentioning frequent use of strobe lighting throughout the season. Viewers sensitive to this type of lighting and imagery may feel uncomfortable as flashing lights of all sorts are used quite a bit.
Multiple emotionally intense seasons throughout and particularly towards the end of each season.
The ending of the season 3 is extremely emotional and melancholic.
The monsters may frighten younger viewers.
Many intense scenes where people are about to die which can put you on edge slightly. In other words, it may be funny, but it's not a light-hearted show.
Flashbacks of Eleven being kept captive by a man she calls "Papa", she is used for experiments, brainwashed and locked in windowless rooms by herself, this may be sad or disturbing to some viewers.
The main character, El, is severely bullied in season 4. Not so frightening, but can be distressing and upsetting to some. Especially, the skating scene in season 4 episode 2.