** SPOILERS ** ALL RIGHTS TO RESPECTIVE OWNERS **
What the hell was this??
Lord have mercy.
So, let's get started.....
The premise of this ENTIRE season was BULLSHIT.
"OMG! Who killed Bryce?"
UTTER BULLSHIT. HOGWASH. NONSENSE. "The rapist is sympathetic. The rapist is empathetic." FUCK YOU! No he's not!
"He's trying to change."
"I'm sorry for what I did." LIE.
In front of his closest people, of course he is. As he's lead you to believe. As James Corbett said about George Soros (but it applies here)," SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE SOCIOPATH!"
Tyler's rape isn't even a thing, it's in the background of the whole murder, compared to Jessica and Justin. The whole subject of rape re: everyone took the background since Bryce kicked the bucket. REALLY?
WHERE the hell did Ryan, Marcus, Scott, Sheri, and Nina, go to? Someone's older brother ( I assume ) is there at the end of Season 3, but they AREN'T even in episodes 1 or 2. Oh right, PLOT CONVENIENCE! DEUS EX MACHINA!
Also, the Montgomery story came out of no where, deus ex machina. The guns are dragged out of the river, literally, at the end of the fucking season, by some fisherman, again, deus ex machina style. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Game of Thrones Season 8! Zach's confession was boring and confusing. He just hops over to the police station, again, GUESS HOW?
** Brilliant fucking idea Zach......**
Who cares that Ani is there? With her mom? She's thrown in deus ex machina style into Bryce's house. So is Bryce's granddad and father. Who cares that his extended family is mentioned, via his father, deus ex machina? Added nothing to his story.
Oh wait, it adds to the bullshit premise!
Tyler's shooting plan was vague. Looked like he was going to shoot everyone, but that's beside the point, apparently.
Montgomery got thrown under the bus....clearly. It ends up that Monte is gay, and he gets killed in prison off screen. WHAT? What a cop-out! You really had nothing else? ZERO creativity? Yeah, ZERO creativity.
Chloe and Zach were believable. Their whole relationship was actually good. It really resonated. She only told Zach herself at the time, and their whole deal was great.
When Bryce attacked Zach at the homecoming game, and when Zach beat up Bryce, I gasped loudly. That was some serious shit.
Zach's character development was very good to me, because it all lined up with his actions, his mentality. It really stood out to me in a good way.
Jessica was annoying, so was Justin. They did another Dumb and Dumber. They omitted his own shit cause there was no time. Tony's family was too expected as a plot device. They really did him a disservice. They threw in Mr. Porter, and they also threw in Mrs. Baker, as an afterthought, for season 4. Cyrus and co. are there for plot convenience only, so the writers have something to go on for season 4 too!
Bryce's mom scared the daylights out of me. Brenda Strong did such a good job, she'd make a GREAT Cinderella step mother! She's so ominous and menacing I'd second guess even going into the same room as her.
They don't know each other all that well, but, Clay and Ani tell each other they love each other in Swahili knowing each other less than a year and not that well. Different strokes for different folks, but I didn't believe it. It's like the writers took a page from Dumb and Dumber!
So what's up with Ani? She theoretically has criminal history, and her mom knows she's a liar. So what aren't we seeing? What the hell up is with the two of them in Bryce's house now?
At the end, Ani and Winston have a conversation, and he saw Monty as a person, not knowing everything. "He was a human being. He didn't deserve it. I know you lied." So congrats 13RW, you graduated to HTGAWM season 3!
ALEX. ALEX KILLED HIM????? COME ON. ALEX killed Bryce? Bullshit. And his dad covered it up for him. "You've hurt everyone I ever loved." How stupid and subversive is this? It's like Dumb and Dumber's thing (as Anomaly Inc. says)," It's shocking, right? Are you guys shocked yet? We like to shock you, please tell us that you're shocked!" Do you really need some book to read from, again, LIKE DUMB AND DUMBER?
The entire time, Bryce's mom was uber plausible. She didn't want him to be a dad when talking to Chloe, she realized how evil he was over time, til late in the final 2 episodes. I wanted Bryce's mom to be the one who did it. Character development, writing, and all.
.05 USD / $13.00 USD ($1.00 USD per episode). Fucking writing and directing... this was so boring and the writing was SUBVERSION NONSENSE with no substance. It's not clever or interesting. It makes no sense, like Arya with The Night King in Game of Thrones Season 8! Again, a time kill at best, but otherwise, we've ALL got better shit to do. 