13 Reasons Why - Reasons to watch!

 

13 Reasons Why - Reasons to watch!

 

I have seen this series, even though am still 17. I read what it was about, and felt it is important for every teen to watch this. I’ll keep myself from spoiling, but still, beware, Mild Spoilers Ahead.

The show starts with Hannah Baker speaking from the tape she recorded, before she committed suicide. From the very first episode, they have started to say hard-hitting facts and the harsh reality of High School. Season 1 consists of 13 reasons (episodes) with a fantastic screenplay. I couldn’t stop myself from being depressed while seeing this.

Instead of reviewing the series, I would like to talk about the content of the series. This plot revolves around a dead girl, and her boyfriend hearing her through tapes, for why she killed herself. This may seem easy to read. But this shows different dimensions of before and after suicide.

It seems Netflix had various controversies since the day season 1 came out. They had to add a warning sign in front of every episode. They had to prepare the audience, for something non-fictional. According to me, this series should be 16+, as it prepares students for something terrible ahead. While our schools give us the toughest question papers, we feel eased to see a relatively easy paper from CBSE. Apply it here. Some may say this ain’t applicable for our country. It had happened to me, in high school.

Here, Hannah Baker receives various offensive titles and strong rumours about something which had never happened. But seeing in common, the school never accepted her. They isolated her, threw whatever they could, and pushed her to Her ultimate end. The school am studying right now, did the same to me.

I never got a chance to mingle with people here, which the big bullies had enough reasons to blow my face with punches whenever they want. I had days when I wanted to cry badly. We all would’ve been through a phase like this. This makes us see us through Hannah Baker. Connecting to the characters is a great asset to this series.

I also felt that removing the scene where Hannah kills her, is something injustice. The whole point of the series is to make the audience connect with Hannah, feel depressed along with her, and to feel how it would be for people around us if we die. They removed it because it acts as a trigger for people with suicidal thoughts. I strongly disagree as, the only scene which makes the people stay away from suicide is, how violent she kills herself. It's still available in Reddit, and I would recommend people with strong will power to watch the scene. I would never commit suicide, and I learnt that from seeing that violent death.

'I Want Everything To Stop.'

Talking about the soft side, I loved how they conveyed that people can change. They can turn good after doing something terrible. They also have insisted that we can’t escape from our crimes too.

The awfully bad thing was, as the first season received positive reviews, they made the second one with all the haste and delivered a poor product. I felt only 1^st and 3^rd seasons were good, as they both followed a single person's life changes, before and after an important event in their life.

Love people around you. Keep checking on them. We don’t know whos going through what. This is what I learnt. And, I’ll keep humming “The Night We Met” till I die. Just play it at my funeral.

'Take Me Back, To The Night We Met'

Hannah Baker could’ve survived like us. Suicide ain’t the end. She didn’t know the series wouldn’t end with her death. The consequences were 3 new seasons long. So, it is for us. Feel free to talk with people. Feel free to talk with me. Suicide is painful, not only for us, for people around us too.

 

13 Reasons Why.

Realise Before Its Too Late.