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I don’t know why trakt.tv has only what appears to be a dislodged rating system. At least it could enable the use of a double system, the actual and a parallel one. The latter based on the actual ratings and data gathered from each episode to derive each season and overall series ratings using applied statistics.

As of now, Sunday, February 25, 2018, 01:41 UTC, the ratings for this show, Seven Seconds, were:

Whole Show (only one season released) gets a 50% with 18 votes,
Season 1 (10 episodes, all released) has an 80% with 2 votes,
Each Episode of the season 1 has a rating between 68% and 77% and 8 episodes out of the 10 received ratings 70% or higher.

Obviously, the TV Show’s, Season’s and Episodes’ ratings don’t seem to add up. To me, they simply don’t make any sense.

The current rating system besides being misleading to most, makes much harder than it should [could] be to find out [make an informed guess] if watching a specific TV Show or Season could be worthwhile or not.

Maybe someone could explain why trakt.tv doesn’t have, at least optionally, a parallel rating system derived from an algorithm –system– which makes mathematical and statistical sense or otherwise be so kind to explain to me how to make sense of the current one, because sincerely I don’t get it at all.

This movie have been grossly misunderstood by some of the critics and in particular by Apple's and Steve Jobs' followers. Aaron Sorkin never intended to make a "BioPic" on Steve Jobs or a factual account of Apple Inc. history.

You have to take a step back to realize that film is not only good from a pure point of view of a movie and its real goal to be entertaining, believable and keep you wondering what would happen next even if you know the end; it is also a skillful exploitation of one of Steve's most brilliant and perfected talents, the art of storytelling.

What Sorking is doing with the script and in the movie is using Jobs own tool to tell us how Steve was and why he was that way, and using not facts but distorting reality to tell us how he was beyond what most people got to see of him. Aaron successfully [IMHO] conveys to the audience, who went to the theater to see something beyond another Valley it story, the character, the charisma, the troubled personality, the strategist, the salesman, the pragmatic leader, the tumbling learner, the resilient, the solitary, the perfectionist, the story teller, the selective amnesiac that was Steve Jobs and unique blend of traits that made him the unique leader, visionary that enabled him to thrive where most would simply would have failed.

Steve Jobs was all that, a Genius and an Asshole, an one could not have been without the other. And here it is where the movie (all the cast, director and everyone else) and Aaron Sorkin are simply brilliantly succeeded in transmitting us, through a simple story, that Jobs could not have been his best without his worse. His worse simply made him be his best and the other way around, both at the same time most of the time.

After listening from TAPE 01 SIDE A to TAPE 13 SIDE A in just two nights this is what I think about "13 REASONS WHY":

First of all I have to recognize I didn't know about the book until I started watching "13 REASONS WHY", I haven't read it yet and maybe never will, probably because TV Series' production, photography, postproduction, cast, acting, story, rhythm and overall quality it is excellent and easily deserves a rating between a 9.7 and 10, I would have given it a 10, but I reserve that specific number for those rare gems that can't be measured by any standard because they simply don't fit in any scale, the rare masterpieces. Yes, those exactly, the ones you can only wonder how come they became and not why or how they did it because it's beyond your comprehension and you somehow now will transcend its time to become a classic. So unless they enable the 10 MasterPiece rating, it will have to suffice a 9 for the time being. Maybe I'll change my mind later or not, I don't know yet.

I think the TV adaptation (or the original novel) isn't really critique to the values of the [post]milenial average American teenager, the High School System or even bullying itself. But it's rather a quite more profound harsh critique to "The Post Milenial Egotistic and Hypocritical Society" where we all live, at least, in the western world. A Society whose values are taught to most kids by example, carrying them unconsciously to their teenage years and, many, to their adulthood where they're passed to the next generation.

It uses a group of High School Students, "13 REASONS WHY" as an analogy. All to make us, the adults, look in the mirror, rethink about our Individual Accountability and Responsibility for our acts or lack of thereof, how we intentionally misuse the concept "Society" (the Group) as an easy excuse, or way out from Individual Accountability and Responsibility out of pure egotism –selfishness (a Group with "N REASONS WHY").

As I said is more to this story that what meets the eye, the author is critiquing Society as a Whole from a moral standpoint to whoever was willing or able to see beyond the analogy he chose to depict it:

• In life there's no remedy to what we allow or contribute to happen and its consequences. There's no way back, what we did or didn't do is in the past and that can't be changed.
• Society (the Group) won't avoid or diminish your responsibility. Because we are ONE of "N REASONS WHY", we cannot really hide behind the Mass, Society (the Group), we are first and foremost individuals and in control of our individual actions or inactions for which we are responsible and accountable but also these have consequences that transcend beyond our little bubble and will affect the final outcome of the "N REASONS WHY". And for which we are responsible and accountable jointly and severally [together, as well as, individually for the whole outcome as one indivisible whole] with the other N.
  Society (The Group), probably one of the greatest developments in human evolution, but in its hypocrisy men have managed to twist its original meaning to serve as tool to try to avoid responsibility and evade any individual or collective accountability, while all "N REASONS WHY" can keep the individual consciences at bay, able to sleep, repeating everyone to ourselves the same fallacy, it's not my responsibility because whatever I did or didn't would have changed anything, it's the others fault, not mine.
  
• Looking for a seemingly more guilty scapegoat who will pay dearly for his responsibility, won't exonerate me. Let's remember, we all are jointly and severally responsible and accountable for final outcome as one indivisible whole. Everyone threw his own stone, the scapegoat just happened to throw the largest one, but each and every one of us contributed to the drowning.
• The only thing we can do is to accept our responsibility, be accountable and learn how not to be a selfish hypocritical prick like most people are.
• Change start with us, not with others. And if we don't, because we, (all N), are watching our ases waiting for any of the other N to move for us, it will simply not happen because all what we (all N) will be doing is trying to dodge our personal responsibility hopping that as usual we won't be held accountable for the change we, (all N collectively and individually), were responsible and lacked the individual courage to do if we continue to use the Mass, Society (the Group) to hide. Our kids will just repeat what they see us do anywhere they go, be it in playing grounds, primary school, middle school, high school, college, work, sports, etc… So if we want things to change, we need to take responsibility, accept to be held accountable for our actions or inactions, get our ass up and begin to stop being selfish hypocritical pricks.

That is why after TAPE 13 SIDE A, there isn't anything meaningful left to tell. It's meaningless what they did or didn't do to anyone. You can imagine whatever you prefer, because no matter you come up the conclusion is always the same. These "13 REASONS WHY" where hers, what they did or didn't is history that can't be changed, so Hannah isn't coming back.

To all those thinking there will be a second season (or mini season), if Netflix continues respecting the original artist work and is wise enough to pull at the top, it won't ever be another.

Remember what Hannah explained on the TAPES about "The Butterfly Effect", our actions, given the adequate circumstances, could put in motion a chain of events whose consequences we would not be able to foresee, and later on she talks about that those tapes could create its own butterfly effect. What you see as the series avances and clearly in Episode 13 - TAPE 13 SIDE A is how that butterfly effect is working exacerbating what Hannah, not the victim, but the person corresponsable for the pain of others, had done actions when she was alive that have consequences and after she was gone with her detailed plan for the 13 TAPES.
Near the end in TAPE 13 SIDE A, even though he had been subtlety suggesting it throughout most of the 13 TAPES, the writer by focusing Hannah actions and probable consequences tries to clearly shows how nobody is perfect, not even Hannah. Perfection is at what we should aim but it's almost impossible, we are simply imperfect human not Gods, the only think that we are asked is to really try as hard as we can. The author puts on the table once again the need to understand and assimilate that we are responsible for our actions and be courageous enough to accept that with responsibility comes accountability and not just to ourselves but to others too.

P.S.

I agree with the message of the author, but I'm afraid I have an even darker view of humanity. I have been wondering what could probably be the worst course of action that anyone can take, but specifically humanity as a whole, I have reached the conclusion that it would be "to simply start doing nothing about almost everything if it's not involves fun".
I believe that it can not be considered an out of this world thought, specially in the light on whose hands it's the atomic football nowadays and the fact that no one did anything to prevent it when it was still possible.

I would bet hedonism together with egotism have already made to the top spots in the current list of The Seven Capital Sins. It all probably started with the fall of Berlin Wall, in the last decade of the XX century and have continued to gain momentum during the first the seventeen years of XXI century, a trend which doesn't seems its going to reverse or stop anytime soon.
But if the time comes, to which I'm look forward, to bury this "malade" which affects everyone: the old, the middle age, the young, etc…

I think its epitaph should read like this: "Here lies: I don't give a fuck about you or anything for that matter, and unless it involves alcohol, drugs, chicks, guys and/or loud music, I ain't going so don't bother me with any of your shit. We kindly ask you to respect his wishes and not bother him with any shit whatsoever unless his strict requirements are meet."

This movie has been hit so hard by US critics, not because the film itself but because they still don't want to believe what the film reveals (Snowden actually) about their own country and establishment.

People tend to behave like and ostrich when they reality is to tough to swallow: If you don't like something, if you close your eyes, keep telling yourself it is not true, you may some day wake up and realize it just was a nightmare.

But I am afraid that America long ago lost the war on terror, the day it surrendered the constitutional rights of its citizens and residents in the name of winning that war. It did exactly what the terrorist had hopped and stepped down to became something asimilable to them.

America no longer holds the moral high ground, it blew it treating its own people as ISIS and al-Qaeda do to theirs.

Moreover, to get to there in the name of safety, it turned its back on what really made America great: the Bill of Rights, its Constitution, and the reasons why it fought for its independence and created the first modern democratic republic. The empire collapses when its leaders forget the cornerstone on which it was built.