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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Common sense media says 13+.  Personally I've seen it and don't think my 9 yo is mature enough for it.[/quote]

In this case, I actually think they get it right, but so often the rankings on that website are really weird.

For example they rate a bunch of the Harry Potter movies a 12+.  But I find it especially weird that Stranger Things, which I think is waaaaay more inappropriate for younger kids than Harry Potter, would have such a similar rating. ST is much more mature than HP, in pretty much every way -- language, sexual situations, the type of violence shown, how stressful it is to watch (there are jump scares in ST, which I think are really stressful for kids, and they don't do stuff like that in HP). But if you had never seen either of them and were just looking at the website, you might conclude they were pretty similar. Maybe you'd let your 9 yr old kid watch HP based on the rating and that would go fine, so then you'd be like "Well Stranger Things is only rated a little older, let's give that a try" and your kid would be like WTF as they are watching a teenage girl get pressured into a sexual situation right before a big jump scare followed by a bloody gory scene that the characters then make sardonic remarks about like it's no big deal.

It's just not a very helpful guide. But I don't know of a better one. I guess you really just have to preview media for kids. Which is fine for older stuff I've already seen anyway but makes it very hard to evaluate newer media. [/quote]

Another weird one:

Stranger Things and the USA detective comedy Psych (it's old but on streaming) get the exact same rating. This is wild. Psych is a goofy buddy detective comedy. There is some violence and adult themes, but it's way, way, way more tame than Stranger Things. I'd let a 10 yr old watch Psych with an adult who could contextualize or explain some of the more adult stuff, but it's like 5% of any given episode. Whereas I'd never let a 10 yr old watch ST. Just nonsensical.[/quote]

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