The series that everybody speaks about: "Thirteen Reasons Why"

Hello guys,

Today I want to talk to you about a series that a great majority of you surely know by name: Thirteen Reasons Why. The second season has just been released two days ago so it was a good occasion to talk about it.

13 Reasons Why, or Thirteen Reasons in Quebec is an American television series developed by Brian Yorkey according to the novel Thirteen reasons (Thirteen Reasons Why) of Jay Asher, spread since March 31st, 2017 on Netflix. In all the French-speaking countries, the series is also spread since March 31st, 2017 on Netflix, in French version and original.

#1 The plot of Thirteen reasons why

Clay Jensen, a seventeen-year-old teenager, receives a box containing seven cassettes on behalf of one of her friend, Hannah Baker, who ended her days a few weeks earlier.

These seven cassettes consisted each of both to listen to, contain each of thirteen reasons which urged Hannah to make this decision. Every face corresponds also to one person that she considers as a person in charge of her act. Shocked by the reception of these cassettes, Clay is fast going to discover according to Hannah's revelations that her companions are not really that they let appear.

Thus the series divides its story into two different parts: the past and the present. The past, with Hannah Baker who explains voice-over his felt on several of his "companions" of class, by drawing as the history moves forward, the reasons of its suicide, and the present, where Clay becomes aware of the truth and tries to manage her and to act accordingly with those who are responsible for the death of her friend.

My opinion

We can see a scene of a suicide and a scene of rape there, and in spite of the rigorous warnings, I would not recommend her to the people suffering from psychological troubles. The actors resorted themselves to puppies to give moral support for them between two scenes. My first opinion after the vision of the first season was that it was maybe quite sensitive for people who were already in depression or with suicidal thoughts, especially the younger ones. This series exposes the whole scheme of depression and suicide, and at the first sight, I was a little afraid that some people may be influenced by that, especially because I found that this series may be put a kind of positive accent on suicide. After the suicide of Hannah, all the people of the school are talking about this for months, a judicial trial is put in place, and all the drama that is developed around her death was making me feel a little uncomfortable.

They tried to answer to this issue in the second season, by putting in the beginning of the first episode a breaking note about the site they have created on this occasion who gather some assistance in case of you feeling bad during this show or if feel like you are in the same case of Hannah. They show it also after every episode, so ... On the other hand, it can also help young people to talk about how they feel at school, highlighting the numerous problematics in school nowadays.

13 Reasons Why does not much have to see with the classic American series for teenagers. It goes at the bottom of things. It succeeds in thwarting the forecasts and in getting rid of the majority of the clichés inherent to the works dedicated to the youth. The actors also move in this direction, by contributing widely to maintain the tension and to give substance in the general subject. Dylan Minnette, in particular, is very good, just like the beginner Katherine Langford, who pulls with a hypersensitive sensibility Hannah Baker, pupil around which everything articulates.

It is maybe not the greatest series of all time, but if you are interested in a better understanding of the bullying in schools and the dynamic of this phenomenon, it can be really great for you.
Whoever was at the high school will recognize things. The microcosm depicted here is credible and realistic, whether it is in the way which the show has to describe the friendship and the matchless, the first one flirtations, the frustrations, the enjoyments and the efforts of his characters … I hope you will enjoy this Netflix show!