13 Reasons Why

It was essentially a 13-hour version of those manipulative drunk driving advertisements. Its a poorly executed show that hides behind its gimmicky mystery and fragile subject matter. Characters completely change personalities depending on the episode to help push along the story. The real angst of the American teenager was completely lacking.

This show is irresponsibly bad. No one who is suicidal is recording snark into a tape recorder moments before like the DJ from The Warriors. Few people who feel suicidal are doing it for reasons at all, other than they do not want to live. Loss of someone close does not prompt a quest, it destroys your world. You physically cannot get out of bed. It takes months or years and if you want to make a show, you would just show people collapsing in tears and snot on their kitchen sink. This is sick.

As someone who's in treatment for suicidal ideation and mental illnesses stemming from intense bullying and sexual assault, I'll be blunt when I say that this show pisses me off. The premise trivializes/fetishizes the matyrized suicide of Hannah, all while dancing around clear allusions to mental illness. In its silence, it thereby fails to destigmatize the one thing it claims to be about. We get a weird Kill Bill revenge list written by a MPDG rather than a truly felt look at a struggling teen.

Season 1. The main characters are an impotent niceguy milquetoast and his high school crush who desperately wants his dick but is just helplessly attracted to the douchebags she dates instead. Then she kills herself because her dating life sucked. Seems way more like some incel fantasy than a serious 'conversation starter' about mental health. The only thing funnier than how deathly seriously the characters treat dumb high school bullshit is how fucking seriously the showrunners treat it.

this show is a despicable piece of trash

Very mixed bag here. I found it fairly gripping and there were quite a few characters that I liked. Biggest flaws here include some occasionally sloppy and forced story telling, a confused message and tone (in my opinion), some cheap cliff-hangers, and an underwhelming ending (barring the bathtub scene which was pretty powerful) that felt really unnatural. Overall, entertaining but extremely flawed.

haven't seen the third season which would probably lower my score lmao

This series is insulting to people with mental health issues. I tried to re watch this for a review and I only managed 1 episode. I think it's fine, as a teen drama it's just fine, the dialogue is irritating sometimes but that's about it. I just hate the glorification, almost fetishism of mental health issues. They show her killing herself in detail, you don't do that. Tl;dr normal teen drama that is damaging to teens and glorifies suicide.

It is such a problematic show, and I hate it. I'm sure it has its good qualities but I can't see them past how much they make suicide seem to be this great revenge. It's not all that accurate and I'm left watching a show that makes suicide not seem like it isn't the worst option ever.

This is just the worst.