This show is amazing. I would recommend this for anyone, especially older teenagers who are in High School. I think this show is important for everyone, this type of thing happens so often. I think the show was well made, the acting was great, and the story was beautiful and sad. I felt so many emotions watching this.
So after finishing the season 1 I can't help but wonder how messed up the educational institutions in the USA are. This is likely an exaggeration, but the melting pot of cultures is essentially a pot full of friction.
Having said that, I liked how it was handled. The show is called 13 reasons why and I see those tapes handled it well and concluded it as well.
After seeing the first episode of the second season, I'm pretty sure they have gone on a different subject now and I am no longer interested. For a sharp 13 episode run, this show packed a real emotional punch, but I'm surely not going to continue with rest of the series.
Highly overrated here! It was good idea for story, but after 7th episode I found all characters in the show so dumb and annoying, that I wished they commit suicide, too. Why the fu*ck would anyone go to the party to a guy that you saw raping your friend to let him rape you, too. WTF? . If the intention of the show was to p*ss me off, than the job well done.
Wow, this is a mind blowing series. I loved every episode. I told as many as I could to watch the show. It should be shown in High Schools around the world. The actors played their parts soooooo well, congratulations.
Unbelievable show. To give it a fair review would be to spoil it. All I'll say is this show is really important and absolutely captivating. I don't always notice a show that you can marathon...and this doesn't immediately seem like a marathon-able show...but it is. It really is. Definitely check this one out!
A deep look into the dark side of a human mind. Teenagers taking on the problems of the youth, as well as hard hitting issues no one should have to face. Also touches well on parents dealing with raising and grieving a child. It is hard not to be touched by the journeys taken by all the characters in this story.
I had low expectations going into this, having seen a variety of opinions about it over the years. I ended up having a decent time with it. There's certainly more than a fair share of teenage melodrama in it, but that's to be expected. I enjoyed the mystery aspects of how the story unfolded.
Hannah definitely had some awful things happen to her, and people should be held accountable for those things. But for a lot of the other things... that's just life, honey. For some of those things, you made a big deal out of nothing. Not to mention she made pretty terrible decisions throughout. A lot of that could've been avoided by her on her own initiative. At the end of the day, she is a drama queen. There's no getting around that.
Tony's character was odd. He's some sort of modern knockoff of the Fonz, but weirdly made to seem omniscient and omnipresent in the first half of the season. His arc made very little sense. It also was never even shown how Hannah had a connection to him. He gave her the mixtape after the dance, and later lent her the recording equipment so she could make the tapes. But I don't think we ever see them interact other than those scenes.
It's got a lot of moments of genuinely phenomenal scripting, acting, music, cinematography, but they're all so fleeting, and so far between, and everything else is unbelievably annoying. When it's not showing flashes of greatness, the dialogue is awful, most of the acting is unconvincing, the camera is slow zooming on a character for no reason, or it's ridiculously close to a subject's face, and each episode ends with some loud bedroom pop rock song slowly drowning out the diegetic noise. The show overexplains a lot of things, things the audience would be able to parse out given much less information, and yet the show is also really bad at clarifying whether we're looking at the past or the present, so much so that they had to rely on ugly color grading and a cheap and transparent plot device to create a physical difference in the main character between flashbacks and present. The characters are all absolutely infuriating and their behavior is wildly inconsistent, including Hannah Baker, who is made to seem like this helpless perfect victim even though she has several moments where she's just an unpleasant or bad person. And she has waaaay too many moments where through some ephemeral "brain things" and sudden bad feelings she unconsciously puts herself in bad situations because...the story demands it? Like the writers needed to connect all these dramatic situations that pushed Hannah to breaking, so they used some contrivance to explain away why she put herself in each position to be hurt.
The plot and the mystery at the center of it are extremely intriguing, but the filmmaking around it is just not good.
5/10 for season 1. Have yet to watch the rest of them.
I thought Hannah was a drama queen but what happen to her lately was awful :(
Normally I really don't like binging shows as I feel like individual episodes tend to lack the impact they could have if I pace myself a bit better, but I found it hard to resist here. There's the danger of everything blurring together.
I have some mixed feelings. The show is extremely powerful and caused me to break down in tears on a couple of occasions. It's a very important story that doesn't shy away from any of the ugliness. There's some wonderful acting.
Outside of that, the writing and characters can be distractingly... off. It's hard to say what it is. I can't imagine people, especially teenagers, acting the way many of these ones do. Maybe it's just American high school culture that I don't get. People - especially Clay - make huge leaps in logic and reasoning while the story doesn't give justification for it happening. It didn't make sense to me that Clay is labelled as a nerd (just because he makes Star Wars references? Seriously?) and yet is a super popular person that everyone likes. Everyone here is ridiculously attractive. The jocks (arseholes) rule the school and run around whooping and pushing everyone about. The teachers shout at people for not taking sports/cheerleading seriously and act like a crime is being committed.
Hannah herself is her own worst enemy. She says she feels invisible and yet is seemingly the object of desire of everyone, getting invited to the parties and making friends. School for me was being completely unknown, thoroughly ignored, and I struggled to identify with what was shown in the show. But the show evolves and makes you care deeply.
Again, I think I'm letting my lack of understanding of American culture skew my opinions (what's with all the kids calling their dad's "sir"? Why are all these kids driving? How are they able to move about the school so freely? Why are they having routine guidance counsellor appointments? Why are they doing the magazine/yearbook/dances? How come they spend all their evenings out at parties or just wandering around? etc ).
The character of Tony is especially odd and everything he did made little sense. The frustratingly vague answers were present from start to finish and he was the worst culprit. Clay listens to the tapes UNBEARABLY slowly for no reason other than to give us 13 separate episodes. After a very good opening episode things become very muddled for quite a while, but the later episodes are a real gut punch. There is some brutally unpleasant stuff to watch, and the warnings at the starts of a few episodes are important.
Overall, it's a show I'm really glad I watched and will need to roll it around in my head for a while. I did feel it went around in circles several times and the teenage angst may be too much for some viewers to bear. I fear it trivialises depression to an extent and doesn't realistically portray essential avenues of help. It ended without a complete resolution, needing more.
Shout by SerenaBlockedParent2017-04-07T17:47:09Z— updated 2017-06-17T14:51:42Z
Such a good show, I felt so many emotions while watching this. Hannah was for sure one of my favorite characters and I bawled my eyes out at the ending. I also got kind of mad because of the way people treat each other. I think this is a really amazing show and apart from that, it teaches people and hopefully opens people their eyes to what might be going on around them and not just ignore it when someone seems troubled. All the actors were so amazing as well. I felt all Clay his emotions. Dylan Minnette has a very bright future, so does Katherine Langford. I can't believe this is her first major part, she's amazing. Also, I fell in love with Tony. And with his car.
I really really really recommend this show. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, but they are all worth it. Go watch it.