The fifth season of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things is set to be streaming in 2025, but for now, the streamer has changed its rating to TV-MA, Comicbook.com reports. This means that the content from this upcoming season will be more violent and early teens could not watch this without the supervision of an adult.

According to Comicbook.com, the news was released from a fan account, that made an X (formerly Twitter) post, named @Updates_SThings, on Nov. 26, and the tweet has received pretty big engagement from users. It has totalized 6,000 likes and 4.2 million views. Till today, the show’s original rating has always been switched from TV-14 and TV-MA from time to time. If anyone is interested, the tweet is embedded below.

Netflix has changed Stranger Things from TV-14 to TV-MA pic.twitter.com/Rr4CbotpaZ

— Stranger Things Updates (@Updates_SThings) November 26, 2024

According to Comicbook.com, this season has introduced an even darker tone and storyline to the series, with the introduction of the new villain Vecna. Because of this, it seems like the upcoming last and fifth season will take things even further. In an interview from 2022, with Deadline, the Duffer Brothers (Wayward Pines, Feat Street Part Two: 1978) shared their hopes for the fifth season, stating that they will try to “stick the landing.”

According to Comicbook.com, a Netflix support agent has spoken on What’s on Netflix by stating that the streaming service usually applies a global rating to a show, but some individual episodes can be rated differently. “In the case of Stranger Things, the show might be listed as TV-MA to reflect some of the more mature themes across all episodes (like violence, language, and intense scenes). However, the individual episodes could be rated TV-14 based on the content of those specific episodes,” they explained. After the news, fans were able to confirm the shift in rating on their own, with an example being the Twitter (Formerly X) post embedded below.

Proof pic.twitter.com/421MBa9I2C

— Ella_Charming (@ELLA_CHARMlNG) November 27, 2024

The fifth season of Stranger Things is set to release in 2025, as stated beforehand, but a release date has not been confirmed yet.