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13 Reasons Why Season 2 Review - Miss Known
To tell you the truth, I wasn’t planning on writing this post. Thirteen Reasons Why isn’t one of my favourite show by far. I think the series started nicely, but towards the end, it got less impressive. Yet, I was interested in watching the second season to see what was going to happen next. I binge watched it in two days (from Friday afternoon to Saturday night), and I wish I hadn’t seen the last episode. I don’t feel this new season is a waste of time since it’s very entertaining and full of drama. Although, it’s not a good source of awareness and a proper portrait of mental health issues. Somehow they managed to make this season even worse than the first one. There was one particular sarcastic moment, which made me laugh but was inappropriate. On the final two episodes, the story gets more emotional and almost made me cry, although it doesn’t compensate for everything else that happened on the other eleven. Then the worst scene I ever watched in a series/movie appeared. At that moment I knew I had to write this post. I had to pour out everything I have to say about it because this time they took it to far. The second season starts 5 months after Hannah’s death. Her mother is going to the court of law accusing the school of ignoring all the bullying and cries for help from her daughter, leading to her death. And each episode is the court hearing of the characters that were in the tapes. This time they tell the story each one had with Hannah from their point of view, introducing new information and also including a few lies. Then a polaroid picture is left in Clay’s locker saying Hannah wasn’t the first victim, putting him on a quest to find the truth. At the start of this new season, my mindset was still at the end of the first season. I was enjoying it but couldn’t binge watch it, because I knew Hannah and Clay would never have a happy ending, and it was heartbreaking. Then Hannah witnessed Jessica’s sexual assault, and that was my turning point. From that moment on, I started seeing the story as it is: fiction. I stopped trying to find the meaning of the scenes, and carry on watching it as if it was any other drama show. The...
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