If you spend any amount of time watching shows on streaming services like Netflix or Hulu, then you may have noticed that several big-name productions are now putting trigger warnings on the screen before some pivotal episodes. The show &#8220;Baby Reindeer,&#8221; for example, warns its viewers in advance of an upcoming scene depicting sexual violence. &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221; alerts its audience about an upcoming suicide. Other popular shows, like &#8220;Severance,&#8221; &#8220;The Morning Show,&#8221; &#8220;Life &amp; Beth,&#8221; and several others also include similar messages before the show even begins. Even classics like &#8220;Goodfellas&#8221; and old <a href="https://x.com/CarmineSabia/status/1728958011392036870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> like &#8220;All in the Family&#8221; now come with warnings about &#8220;ethnic prejudices.&#8221; 
Online, these trigger warnings have caused a lot of consternation because they often ruin the episode that people are about to watch. If you know a suicide is coming, for instance, it&#8217;s usually not too hard to guess which character might be involved. (Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s probably the character that&#8217;s been having serious mental problems all season). And even if you&#8217;re not sure what character might be involved, it still blunts the dramatic impact of the scene to be told, directly, that something shocking is about to happen. There&#8217;s a reason Shakespeare didn&#8217;t have some guy go on stage before the fifth act of &#8220;Romeo &amp; Juliet&#8221; to explain that poisoning and self-harm would occur. There was no stagehand to announce, &#8220;If you&#8217;re not ready to see two lovers take their own lives, then leave the amphitheater immediately.&#8221;

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