This might be the biggest piece of garbage ever made.
13 Reasons Why (Netflix)
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My mother-in-law was telling the family last weekend about how great this was - which was my cue to avoid this show
Its based on a book that is for the middle school range, so I'm assuming it's the same for the show, and felt that way through the first 2 episodes I watched. It is an interesting concept but many times throughout you find yourself thinking, "what the hell are we doing here?"
I completely understand why people would love it and I totally see how people don't. I enjoyed the book, because I read it in about 6 hours, but the show hasn't really captured me yet.
I suffered through bits and pieces of it over the last couple weeks. This show is the exact opposite of a cinematic masterpiece.
I thought it was pretty well done. Not for everyone that is for sure but gives you some perspective on what is going through others heads in different situation.
I don't currently have Netflix. I thought this was going to be a thread telling me 13 reasons why I should get it.
Instead I'm getting more than one reason to watch/avoid a Netflix show.
Instead I'm getting more than one reason to watch/avoid a Netflix show.
My fiancee and I binged it on Netflix one weekend. Some parts are fine, but there's a lot I found myself shaking my head at. I bet it's much better as a book because some lines and reactions by main characters just seemed... Odd.
The thing that scares me is I've seen so many people react to it on social media like they're discovering for the first time that their actions might actually affect people.
The thing that scares me is I've seen so many people react to it on social media like they're discovering for the first time that their actions might actually affect people.
Yeah, agreed. I liked the show. There are some real world dangers in it and I generally like the actor who plays Clay. The other guys..not so much. There were about 4 of them that had extremely punchable faces.
+1 on the bolded. And I've watched the first three or four episodes and I find the pace of it (slow) hard to watch.
I also think this may have an unintended effect similar to how "16 & Pregnant" was partially intended to show how tough being a teen mother is, but instead teenage girls saw "oh, if I get pregnant now, maybe I can be on a TV show!" ....except the potential effect of the same stream of thought isn't temporary.
I agree, I thought Clay did well, and I liked the show. I think that the show was a pretty accurate portrayal of what it's like to be a girl since, like, 1990. Gossip, sexual exploitation, groping. The whole thing was obviously dramatized, lots of things happened that you would hope would never happen simultaneously to any child - but as a parent, I think it is good to watch. Just because I think it makes you think of some questions you want to ask your kids as they grow, or things for which you want to be on alert, etc. I don't think you need this show/book to think of them, but it helps.
I think it would also be worthwhile to discuss with kids how it may have glamorized suicide a bit in some ways, and explain the effects that it may have downplayed on others, ways that the situations could have been remedied that were not permanent.
But yeah - some of the characters grated on me.
This is what I've heard. Apparently the makers of the show consulted with researchers who study adolescent suicide and how kids react to it, etc.
They basically went against everything the researchers told them, in the name of making it into a hit show.
It was pretty glossy. And I guess (I hadn't known before I watched that it was a book first) that the style of suicide was different in the book, but they went for a more graphic approach to hopefully make it less glamorous - but they didn't really show that she was in a ton of pain, or what it's like to bleed out, etc.
I think the show had a lot of value, but would never want my kids to watch it alone, and NEVER without context.
**** Bryce. That punk ***** needs my front bumper in his teeth.
