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If you also grew up in the era of grizzled middle-aged men cooking meth and doing justified murders on HBO, you might have noticed the trend of moral sanitization in more recent media. If you didn't though, it might not be as obvious. After watching Stranger Things Season 5, I felt the need to analyze.

Co-written by Chris Bourland and CassandrasChaos
Co-edited by Ollie

00:00 - Intro
04:29 - Film History
08:31 - The Netflix Problem
15:13 - Avatar
19:12 - KPop Demon Hunters
21:23 - Stranger Things
32:02 - Ending

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