I used to teach middle school and one day we had a mandatory assembly. Teachers and students were told it was an anti-bullying/suicide awareness assembly. It ended up being the author of 13 Reasons Why (this was several years ago, when it was just a book and they were in the planning stages of the tv production) doing a promotional tour. It was absolutely the lamest assembly I’ve ever attended in my life. He kept name-dropping that the tv show might feature Selena Gomez.
After the assembly I rented the book to see if it would work as a class novel but in the first couple chapters it had a blowjob scene and it was downhill from there, so yeah, not something I’d have my class of 12-13 year olds read together.
A couple years later the Netflix series came out and I watched it out of curiosity and because my kids were watching and talking about it. It was worse than the book because it romanticized suicide even more by actually showing the dead girl as a phantom character.
The author claims that he wrote it to help prevent teen suicide but IMO he made it worse by giving a false image of suicide and finality of death.
That's not even the last season man. The last season is somehow the worst season. Its about like 20 storyline, most don't finish and its completely over the top. I had the show on in the background and had to stop and watch the absolute insanity that was happening on screen every now and then.
A student gets r*ped by a guy in the school bathroom using a mop. The same student plans a school shooting only to get talked out of it last second by the MC
I think I lasted halfway through one episode of the last season and just gave up. I already pushed everything about it out of my mind except that it was awful.
Clay is just pretty much insane and has creep rapist vibes the whole season then loses his virginity to some random girl at a party just to get it out of the way I guess. Then some big cringy fuck the police protest where a big fight breaks out. Justin was the only character I felt really bad for and they just killed him off the most painful way possible.
Season 2 was funny to me because they make this big deal about hannah being bullied and how you should be considerate and take everyone's feelings into account. But then everyone immediately ostracizes and bullies tyler to the point of wanting to shoot up the school. Yeah he was wierd and wrong for what he did to Hannah, but the kid was 15/16 and was easily able to change through a little bit of counseling and therapy. In conclusion, fuck every character in that show. Even characters that werent even that bad become huge pieces of shit by the end of the show. The first season I really didnt understand Hannah's reasom for including everyone on those tapes. It was like mostly minor annoyances outside the last couple of tapes, and people seemed to quickly get over a lot of what happened to her and she seemed a lot more popular than she let on, but she was too much of an angsty teen.
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u/Slightly_Default 27d ago edited 27d ago
There's a lot more than 13 reasons why that show is terrible.
Edit: thank you so much for the awards!