But they didn't. With all due respect to "her truth" that ain't how suicide works. Plenty of folks are isolated and unpopular or even bullied and don't kill themselves. Suicide is the result of mental illness, not being called names or embarrassed.
Word another drawback I had about this show is that for a 13 episode series, with each episode lasting 1 hour, we rarely, if ever,see Hannah go through prolonged periods of depression. You see a snippet of sadness at the coffee shop. You see her cry at her locker. She has these outbursts of emotion. But throughout the entire show she's a relatively happy teenager. This meshes well with the public consensus that her suicide is a shock, but it plays terribly when you realize that we saw absolutely no pain and sadness from her until AFTER she walks out of her high school that last time.
So we miss the agony of her sitting outside Tyler's bedroom. We miss the slow walks to the gas station. We completely miss the broken spirited Hannah.
Could it have been shot differently? I'm not so sure. The fukkn show is already 13 god damn hours long.
To really capture those moods it would have to be a show like Degrassi and not a mini-series.