Edit: yes I'm late as fukk.
This show is such an interesting social experiment.
We've got grown ass people looking at a (fictional) teenager who, in a mind so mentally disturbed she's considering suicide, tries to figure out why she's going to commit that and responding to it as if y'all were on a fukking tape.
It's just her perspective, one we know, at least from Zach's and Clay's tapes, isn't entirely accurate. She made these tapes when she was at her lowest point, OF COURSE it's going to be uneven and confusing and emotional and possibly overstated/understated on the right/wrong people in her life. That's kind of the sad point, because she committed that it's now impossible to dig into her psycho more. The tapes and people's memories of her are all we have.
The mental health thing: the scary thing about depression is that you might not realize you're stuck until it's too late. I can guarantee you that y'all dudes calling her weak and whatever have shyt that y'all feel emotional/traumatized by that the next man would consider WEAK. Plenty of characters say that they think she wasn't mentally healthy. Even the only other character who's perspective we get, Clay, has a history of anxiety/meds. It was addressed, even it's seeming absence is addressing it.
Actual show: actors did their things, it's hard to buy them as teenagers due to some of their looks/dialogue. It reminded me A LOT of that game LIFE IS STRANGE.
I really hated the way it ended, I don't mind it going into a second season - but the last 15 minutes of Episode 13 are just so sloppy and rushed, it really detracted from what I thought was an overall well told/paced story.
Definitely agree that we were
after seeing Clay's tape, not so much that Hannah made the tape (this made sense) but before that all the characters were so smug on that "what about YOUR tape
" shyt. If I waa Clay I'd go back to them now like "Nikka, what about my tape?
".
The counselor's role is also so interesting. He's the only character who was never intentionally mean to Hannah, but he's the only real adult and should've overruled Hannah. If you KNOW something's wrong you don't let a fukking kid tell you what to do/what not to do. I think he was a good-hearted dude who was a bit in over his head. I DO think that he would've done more, but he just never assumed Hannah would kill herself 2 hours later.
Rest of them all fukked up somehow, someway. It's Hannah'a perspective so there's no right or wrong, yes her parents played a bigger part in her life than say a Zach or a Ryan, but we don't really know whether Hanna realized that. Think about this: she not only killed herself in her own house, knowing her parents would find her, but she made it a point to ask her mom for tapes and stole razors from the store.
In some fukked up way, she punished her parents worse than anyone - she also kept them out of the loop by not leaving notes and keeping them out of the tapes.
Show was incredible brehs. Ending is the only major detractor for me, that and the way people perceived Clay's tape. That was sloppy ass writing to keep "us" hooked.
