13 Reasons Why on Netflix

I started out hating it but then I got addicted and ended up binge watching it over a couple of days. And I rarely binge watch TV shows. It's very good, but deeply sad and often hard to watch. And yeah, the anticipation of Clay's tape was the most compelling part for me. I knew it was going to make me cry, and I wasn't wrong.

Poorly written and executed, beyond the very basic fact they fail to address depression and mental disorders.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/17/suicide-13-reasons-why-mental-illness-column/100562428/

It may have been written by a teenager but she's smarter than any of the writers of 13 Reasons Why. The article is sot on, espcially this "Clay doesn’t see suicidal warning signs and direct Skye to someone who actually can — an adult who could make sure she sees a mental health professional. Instead, he presumably saves her just by being nice; that’s not how suicide works."

I turned it off after the second episode. Truly awful.

Updated On: 4/24/17 at 02:09 PM

If you've only seen two episodes you have no opinion here. The first two episodes are bad but it gets much better.

Also, I resent the way that this writer thinks she knows how suicide "works," or that it only "works" in a certain way. And Skye wasn't even contemplating suicide. That's not what was going on.

As a therapist who has been working with depressed adolescents for over 15 years I can assure you it gets everything about suicide 100% wrong.

I've seen the first two episodes and I'm not really a fan. I think it drags and the story is kind of cliche. I've heard a spoiler and I'm not quite sure if it's true, but....

This show most definitely glorifies suicide.

Any opinions from someone who's actually seen the show?

hork said: "Any opinions from someone who's actually seen the show?"



I gave you my opinion and yes, I watched the entire series. You just didn't care to actually engage. It fails to address mental illness, depression and the need for professional counseling. Beyond that, the writing is akin to those horrible teen soap operas on ABC Family and the casting is completely off. We're supposed to believe Tony is in high school? Give me a break.

Liza's Headband said: "hork said: "Any opinions from someone who's actually seen the show?"



I gave you my opinion and yes, I watched the entire series. You just didn't care to actually engage. It fails to address mental illness, depression and the need for professional counseling.

Again, the show isn't about mental illness or clinical depression. It's about bullying and its consequences. There are lots of other works that address depression, so maybe you could check out one of those instead of criticizing this show for what it isn't.

Erik - The show is not the book. How does something even get suicide "100% wrong," anyway? Every suicide is different. There's no wrong or right way to write it.

I don't see how anyone could walk away from this show thinking it glorifies suicide, when it does everything short of holding up a sign saying "Suicide is bad." Does anyone think it makes suicide look appealing, like something you might like to try? Because I feel like that's on you.

dramamama611 said: "So, really, Hork, you are just looking for people that will agree with you, yes?

No, but apparently you are.

I just finished the last episode and my personal takeaway from it was anything but it glorifying suicide. I think it highlighted how awful it is and how much it affects the ones she left behind like her parents and Clay. I think it shows how the people who did stuff to Hannah don't really realize how their actions truly affected her until after the fact.

Sure the format of her recording the tapes of the reasons why(which I knew nothing about going into the series which is I why I put spoiler tags before) definitely brings a different element into the whole story. I can definitely understand how that revenge aspect of it can be seen as something someone would copy.

Personally I cared more about Clays story than Hannahs and I think that's one aspect of this series that they really got wrong. For me I felt more bad for him than her. It really felt more like his series than Hannahs. Dylan Minnette who played Clay was just fantastic in this series for me at least, he was the main reason I kept watching.

I just thought the actual suicide scene really showed how awful it can be, she had completely given up and was all by herself in her mind and in that moment. Her parents discovering her was heartbreaking.

I do agree about the casting for some of these roles. Some definitely looked older than others and so many had tattoos, those that did looked like they intentionally had them just for the series too which I thought was a very odd choice.

To me depression and thoughts of suicide or mental illness is something that is so personal that there really is no correct way to go about this topic. Everyone is going to have different experiences and feelings on this topic.

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 12:31 PM