I binge watched the season in two nights. The suspense, the acting, and the soundtrack are awesome. But in the end, it left me wandering if this is not a romanticize suicide, an apology to suicide revenge. She is able to see why, to go one by one making people feel directly responsible for her personal unique decision of taking her own life to the point one of the kids shoots himself in the head out of blame. And let's not talk about Clay, feeling absolutely responsible for it, suffering post traumatic syndrome, etc. I don't know, I enjoyed watching the show but the after taste is bittersweet. I don't know if I would recommend this show to a teenager, tbh.
Specially when it suggests that you are alone, no one will help you. She's going through deep shit and her family does not even notice, she won't try to reach them. The counselor will ignore her when reaching for help as well. And the only one who cares and asks if it's okay and worries about her is pushed away with not a single explanation. Hannah is mature enough to record 13 reasons why she is going to kill herself, but not mature enough to reach her family (!!) or to, after recording the cassettes, realize killing herself will leave permanent consequences.loading replies
@missgaijin Mostly I agree. It's hard to recommend this as it fails to give people with depression and suicidal thoughts an alternative, something good. It just feels like guilt tripping them very hard to not commit suicide because of all the peopel left behind. That is not enough. Especially considering the producers wanted to make it painful to watch and the last 3 episodes were incredibly difficult to watch and then it ended and I just felt miserable for days because I can somewhat relate to Clay, although luckily no one around me has killed him-/herself.
But I disagree on your part with maturity and that no one notices the little signs of crying for help.
The latter happens, it's discussed at length that tiny things may come off as big things to others.
The former is a misinterpetration on your part. Hannah was to a degree mature, yes, but she was depressive and misinterpreted the behaviour of others. A very clear sign was when she said to Porter who asks "What about Clay Jensen?" - "Clay Jensen hates me." - while he clearly does not hate her. But she couldn't see it because she was suffering from depression at that point. Depression clouds your thoughts and makes everything around you negative and you only see confirmation for your own negative thoughts, even if you are trying to look at it positively waiting for Porter to come out of his office.
