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I hate it I hate it I hate it 13 Reasons why... i fucking hate 13 reasons why: ((Spoilers ahead)) 13) If this is supposed to take place in 2016, it's way too cliquey. Authors that went to school in the 80s/90s experienced cliques that just don't exist anymore. You don't have to choose between cheerleading and debate anymore. Friend groups intertwine and there are no clear social divides amongst millenials. 12) I hate the singular villain. The whole point of this story is to spread the "blame" across 13 different people. Giving each character bad qualities and holding them accountable for their actions. BUT Bryce is painted as the ultimate villain because he is a rapist and his only redeeming quality is that he has money which goes right along with the rich villain trope so even that doesn't put him in a semi-okay light for the audience. EVERYONE else is shown with redeeming qualities and what they did was excused away with "I was scared," "I didn't know what to do," or a "I made the wrong decision in the wrong moment." Everyone else at some point regrets their actions. I will tell you that rapists aren't soulless beasts. They are normal people that have faults as well as good qualities. I honestly wish they would have built him up a little more solely for the shock value of "FUCK a rapist was my favorite character for half the season" because that might have woken some people the fuck up. 11) The rape scenes were both at parties. I hate the stereotype that rape is a party activity usually revolving around drinking. Can we please change the setting? At least a little??? Who else had Bryce raped? You would think if he so casually raped jessica and Hannah it's probably not his first time at the rodeo... bad phrasing, yikes. But where are the rumors?? Where are the other victims? All in hiding? Likely, but it would have been nice in the last episode to have at least one more victim step forward and hold him accountable. 10) They romanticized the hell out of suicide with the beautiful aesthetic camera shots, the appeal to the younger generation's affinity for the 80s (cassettes), and the fact that they centered it around a would-be star crossed romance 9) They fucking centered it around a romance!!! Almost blatantly telling the audience romantic love is worth living for. When every suicidal/depressed person I know has been in their situation not because of a "missed love connection" 8) The way they trivialized suicide down to "because these specific people screwed me over in these specific ways" instead of the more likely reasons: depression, stress, and anxiety or a combination of all three. Hannah baker was shown to have no problems managing school, work, and a social life? Never experiencing basic stress??? 7) Hannah emotional progression throughout the tapes is consistent regardless of the timeline. What does that mean? Well, we always hear Hannah in the tapes start off super calm as though she is not ABOUT to commit suicide and then get progressively more emotional as the episode nears its end/reveal point, instead of oh I don't know showing any level of emotion in her voice. Not to mention with the time jumps she doesn't act any differently toward people that have fucked her over until their reveal episode which is inaccurate. 6) This is just sad porn for neurotypicals and people that have never experienced suicidal thoughts to get their emotional jack off on. Non-suicidal/people that haven't experienced suicidal thoughts LOVE watching this and going "oh my gosh I love Clay #boyfriendgoals #openyoureyeshannah," "oh I'm not like those people, I've never done anything like this," and "wow!! I'm going to appreciate my super close friends who I already show my open appreciation for even more, to prevent suicide!!" They cry, think about how cruel the world is long enough to update their status on social media, and then they have the luxury of moving on with their fucking lives without taking any real action. 5) Hannah Baker's relationship with her parents is super minimal??? We see a lot of her parents and HOW it affects them, but despite running the store, they're not "hands off" parents. They genuinely want to know how she is doing and care about her well being and MOST children have some sort of communication with their parents even if it's super minimal, but we get almost nothing from any flashback. It's always just Hannah blowing her parents off or the one episode where they assigned her a task and she messed up and that scene could have been so much better if we had seen any true bonding moments with her parents prior so we could feel her letting them down and the regret of disappointing them. Not to mention her parents should have been the most important people in her life since all these fuckwads couldn't be civil beings. 4) Suicide isn't about revenge. People who commit suicide are not doing it to spite other people usually. They are not like, "yeah if I die, that'll show 'em." Usually its desperation. A last resort. A feeling of not being able to take the world any more. Like it's too much and you need a forever escape. Making this a teen drama about revenge is ridiculous if you're claiming it's also a show about suicide awareness. 3) Some of the things that set Hannah off were so minimal I didn't feel like they belonged on the tape. Yes. I realize that even the smallest actions can prompt someone to suicidal thoughts, but 13 reasons why was written, scripted, produced. The entire show was fabricated for an audience, so I can be a little critical. When I say "some," I mostly mean Clay's. Clay's fault was that he didn't want to force himself onto Hannah. It was that he listened to someone with trauma when she told him to stop. His reason why was because he was "Too Nice????" Fuck that noise. That launches is right into the second reason. 2) Fucking Good Guy Clay. I hate this character to the moon and back. The audience is supposed to identify or at least sympathize with Clay the most out of all the characters. He is the honorary main character despite this being Hannah's story about Hannah's life. And the whole time he just loves Hannah and listens to her and then regrets his actions the most????? He is the viewers' #MCM because he is such white bread bland personalityless. Wait, what's that? He does have a personality? It's being an adorkable nerd? And being, here we go again, Nice??? Fuck that! Seriously! His nerdiness isn't genuine. He isn't socially awkward with unrelateable interests, he's just respectful and loves school which is very different. Clay is only on the tapes to give us a main character to see through the eyes of and not feel bad about ourselves. If we had been anyone else on the tapes, we wouldn't have been asking ourselves, "what did we do?" the whole time. We would have known and it would have been that much more painful listening. Honestly give this dude some faults for starters and that might get close to making up for getting the audience to be the girl-who-commit-suicide's "only true friend." 1) AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON I HATE 13 REASONS WHY IS HOW YOU DONT NEED 13 REASONS TO COMMIT SUICIDE. ONE THING MIGHT BE ALL IT TAKES TO INSPIRE SUCH AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. EVEN SKYE WHO WE REALLY GOT NO BACKSTORY ON HAD A HISTORY OF SELF HARM AND SHE FUCKING MOCKED HANNAH FOR COMMITTING SUICIDE BECAUSE SHE WASNT "STRONG ENOUGH." I WOULD HAVE HOPED SINCE SHE HAD EXPERIENCE WITH SELF HARM SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE COMPASSIONATE AND BEEN MORE ACTIVE IN SUICIDE PREVENTION MEASURES AT THEIR SCHOOL, BUT NOPE. SHE ONLY CARES ABOUT CLAY OUR RESIDENT MARY SUE. Alright I'm out. Thanks for listening to this big rant. God I fucking hate this show.

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