Ahh, 13 Reasons Why everyone's favourite Netflix show featuring extremely graphic and unneeded scenes about suicide and sexual assault while claiming it's progressing the story. Note to Producers: you don't need to physically prologue the act and show every detail for the audience to work out what's happening. We're smart, we can read between the lines.
It's really hard to believe that this show started out as an adaption to the Young Adult book of the same name in 2017. Hannah Baker started the show wanting vengeance on her classmates but they hadn't really thought past that point. Ever since they've been winging it and the shows just have gotten weirder and crossed more controversial boundaries which they didn't handle in the best way...
Now it's back with the trailer of season 3 and the show is almost unrecognizable. It's shaping itself into an angst murder mystery, mirroring Pretty Little Liars with the cast gathering around the coffin of the victim.
And the victim of the murder? Oh, it's everyone's favourite character, Bryce Walker. Professional TV villain, scumbag, and oh yeh, a rapist. Probably not the best character to kill off to keep audiences interested in where ever this show is going.
But I can't help but think how the show has gone from season 2 with the ghost of Hannah Baker and almost ending with a school shooting to "Oh, hey guys, Byrce has been killed! LOL! Whodunit?"
It feels like this show is grappling onto anything to allow it to continue, even if it doesn't make sense to the origins of the show. But perhaps the new purpose of the show is demonstrating 13 Reasons Why you shouldn't let your show go on for too long even if people are still watching.
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