We are watching it with my kid (12 years old, grade 7). We recently received an email from the principal of his school that it is inappropriate for kids, games like it are banned on the playground etc. etc.
So kid’s games are banned on the playground? Red light Green light?
My take is that if a kid is going to watch a show with violence I’d prefer it be ‘real’. No sanitized graceful bloodless deaths with no meaningful consequences for the ‘good guys’. People who kill people for whatever reason have to deal with the moral and emotional after effects (not laughing over a beer later that day in the denouement). And watch it with the kid, and talk to him about what it means and implies.
I feel the same way about sex in movies or tv. Our culture is perversely ok with John Wick slaughtering people by the dozens while not at all ok with nudity or sex. It is absurd. If a move has some sex that isn’t gratuitous or rape I have no problem with my kids seeing it. I draw the line at rape - it is rarely worth actually filming and almost every time I’ve been exposed to it in a film it has felt gratuitous and exploitive (looking at you Game of Thrones and Sopranos).
