US: 13 Reasons Why

Yeah saw on Netflix's facebook page yesterday S2 has got the green light.

I finished S1 last night. Final episode was a bit brutal and graphic. Hard to watch the actual suicide and parents coming in, didn't think it would show that so graphically. I also fail to see how this show and anyway sensationalizes suicide? If anything it was a harrowing highlight on the effect bullying can have and the aftermath of those you would leave behind.
 
I think the people who are claiming it sensationalises and romanticises suicide are the ones that like to bury their heads in the sand, fingers in their ears and say "my little Timmy would never do that, don't give him any ideas, because at this moment in time he doesn't know that it's even possible to end his own life". They don't want to face it, because quite frankly growing up has always been a bit ****, but with social media and the early exposure to a lot of adult (totally unavoidable unless you are Joseph Fritzl and keep yours kids under lock and key) related issues it's just so much more overwhelming, and I think it must be difficult for parents to handle that their children may be suffering someway in silence, or be inflicting suffering on another.

Looking back I relate so much to this show in that I didn't understand how to process how I was feeling around 16-22, the way things mounted up on top of each other, everything felt final and having no agency to ask for help. Kids/young adults need to understand the signs and help each other through or things are just going to get worse - they just do not have the experience and hindsight that we have as adults, well that's my opinion now having been lucky enough to realise that life really was worth living.

EDIT: I have a feeling the second season may go down the "13 reasons why I committed a mass shooting" centering on Tyler.
 
Awful up until the last few episodes, and the main character annoyed the crap out of me. Complete drip of a lad. Why would he spend so long listening to the tapes? I know it's a show, but come on... Everyone would play the entire lot the moment they got them.

Rapes scenes were obviously horrible, but most of the other stuff she was sad at was just typical school rubbish but in obvious overly dramatic Yank style. She was a bit annoying at times really. The last episode and final scene with her suicide/parents finding her was upsetting though and it was one of the few times I felt genuinely terrible for her.

Mak3R said:
I also fail to see how this show and anyway sensationalizes suicide? If anything it was a harrowing highlight on the effect bullying can have and the aftermath of those you would leave behind.
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From what I've read on Twitter, some people seem to be taking it as a way of 'getting their bullies back' after they've committed suicide. Ruining their lives from beyond the grave, so to speak. I'm not surprised some young people might think in that way.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Awful up until the last few episodes, and the main character annoyed the crap out of me. Complete drip of a lad. Why would he spend so long listening to the tapes? I know it's a show, but come on... Everyone would play the entire lot the moment they got them.
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Not necessarily. He was in love with her and was trying to process each tape one at a time, and he clearly wasn't in any hurry to hear his own tape and find out how he contributed to her suicide.

G-MAN2004 said:
Rapes scenes were obviously horrible, but most of the other stuff she was sad at was just typical school rubbish but in obvious overly dramatic Yank style. She was a bit annoying at times really.
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I think that's the point the show is trying to make; that seemingly 'trivial' things aren't actually so trivial when you take a moment to consider how they make people feel. I think they did well to show that Hannah still seemed fine to most people whilst actually suffering a lot inside, because that's exactly what happens to so many people.

Season 2 is good news, although it'll be interesting to see how they structure the episodes and carry the storyline because I assume they won't use a tape-per-episode format again.
 
Random thought I had. Near the end you hear Alex had shot himself in the head and was in 'critical condition' (not sure how hes alive...). Then at some point you see the mental photographer kid clearly planning his targets for a killing spree. He removes Alex's picture from the lineup. Was that him letting him off or he'd already shot Alex and made it look like suicide :O.
I'm probably giving him too much credit.
 
Bit behind the times but just watched all this. really powerful show and probably the hardest thing I've had to watch since some of Skins dark episodes. I get a real Veronica Mars vibe from it as well, probably something to do with the multiple timelines, dead girl aspect of it mixed with the different class backgrounds divide.

I'm not sure how a second season will work though, guess we'll see
 
TheVoice said:
Watched 6 episodes of this yesterday, I'm really enjoying it. Has a bit of a Life Is Strange vibe about it, a game I liked a lot.
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Only 4 in so far, will watch another tonight.

Finding it very, very good so far. Certainly has me wanting to watch further after each episode to find out more.

Can't put my finger on it, but when I was watching the first episode I immediately thought of Life is Strange.
 
I thought this was another excellent Netflix series. I was compelled to watch another episode and unlike other series I would digest and ponder for a while what I had watched. The final episode was unashamedly brutal even when we knew what was coming, heartbreaking.

Fubsy said:
EDIT: I have a feeling the second season may go down the "13 reasons why I committed a mass shooting" centering on Tyler.
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Most definitely, after seeing the contents of his camera flight case. That was a lot of guns, some smoke or flashbangs, plus some wire. If they go down this route it'll cause an even bigger stir and controversy.
 
Mysterae_ said:
I thought this was another excellent Netflix series. I was compelled to watch another episode and unlike other series I would digest and ponder for a while what I had watched. The final episode was unashamedly brutal even when we knew what was coming, heartbreaking.

Most definitely, after seeing the contents of his camera flight case. That was a lot of guns, some smoke or flashbangs, plus some wire. If they go down this route it'll cause an even bigger stir and controversy.
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I thought it was one of the best series I've seen in a while. Certainly not the easiest of ones to watch, but upon on an episode finishing I was left wanting more.

I plan to read the book off the back of seeing it and it'll be interesting to see how it differs and if the book was used just to base season 1 on.

Already looking forward to season 2 and just hope they do season 1 justice by it. It would be a great shame if the undo all that they manage to achieve in season 1 with a mediocre season 2 follow up.
 
Just finished a binge of the whole series. Not really sure what to think after all that. Some pretty tough scenes to watch.

They killed off Jeff :(. He actually seemed like a really nice guy.
 
Wife and I watched this over the past week, found it very good television.
All the actors played their roles very nicely, great editing, and cutting from past/future worked well.
The music fitted very well with the various scenes.
Enjoyed it, very last 10-15 minutes maybe a little weak.

Good to show the nasty stuff, as I feel the show was enjoyable as aspect of it were very identifiable, even thought its been 25 years since I was at school.
They didn't chicken out and showed a horrible suicide, I felt this was good, it didn't glorify, the actress in the scene was superb, he actual reactions to 'pain' 'adr rush', superb.
Its a great adaption.
 
Finished this last night, having started it on Sunday.

I echo most people's thoughts here. The show itself was brutal at times and it touched on a lot of issues which are typically censored in a "head on" way. Which doesn't happen often.

I thought the acting was excellent throughout. Especially from Clay Jensen.

A very thought provoking show. I do wonder how Season 2 will go. We were talking about who shot Alex, despite it being said it was a suicide...few things we noticed:

- Justin is carrying a gun. We saw him take it from the cooking pot. We also know him and Alex have beef.

- Tyler could start a war with what is in his bedroom. Also in the coffee shop when someone said to him "you can do whatever you want, nobody takes you seriously" he replied with a very very dark "they will" (or something along those lines) - he also has a gun on him during the time Alex was shot.

- Jessica has access to lots of guns. But I don't think she shot him.

I see season 2 is confirmed for 6 episodes. My betting is that its surrounding the court battle whilst the kids take some things into their own hands.
 
Season 2 available from tomorrow. I've spent the past few days re-watching the first season to refresh my memory, really enjoyed it all over again although the second time round I did notice that certain things that have already happened in the "present day" aren't mentioned by anyone because the show itself hasn't covered those events yet e.g. Jeff dying (although it's briefly alluded to early on) and Bryce raping Hannah.

From the brief glimpse I've had of previews all over social media it looks like photos (possibly Polaroids) are the mechanic of season 2. Hannah seems to be appearing in the promos but I can't imagine the photos have much to do with her so I wonder how much of a role she'll play this time round.
 
Wife is super looking forward to this coming back. I enjoyed S1 as well, which I did not expect. Judging from brief trailer I saw it looks like Hannah is there in a haunting Clays mind kind of way.

Have to admit I can't remember half of what happened now though :/
 
Me and the wife just finished this.

It was strangely compelling whilst at the same time being horribly overacted. Long time since I was a teen but is that really the way people react to everything?

It was interesting how it pulled together and fascinating to see a lot of small equating to a horrible finale. Personally I thought showing the suicide was sensationalist and there was no need at all.

I was kind of jaded throughout to an extent as I personally believe that suicide is the ultimate selfish act. I don't want to argue that out here, just saying as because of my view I found it really hard to empathise with Hannah and her ultimate choice.

Will watch season 2, I hope that they don't overplay and draw it out this ruining it. It felt like season one was originally where they intended it to end (though I may be wrong)
 
Finished Season 2 the other day. Enjoyed it, but like most things that get milked. I wished it had been left as just the 1st season.
 
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