13 Reasons Why Season 2 Review: An Unnecessary Follow-Up To A Self-Contained Story

<img src="https://https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dylan-Minnette-in-13-Reasons-Why-Season-2.jpg" /><p>Season 1 of Netflix’s <a href="https://screenrant.com/tag/13-reasons-why/"><b><i>13 Reasons Why</i></b></a> was about as self-contained a story as you can get. Based on the novel by Jay Asher, the series was initially intended to be a feature film, but soon took on a new form as one of the streaming giant’s overlong, sometimes ponderous, supposedly bingeable originals. Though it covered sensitive, important topics like bullying, self-harm, rape, and suicide — sometimes in not the most sensitive of ways —<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>the questions of why Hanna Baker (Katherine Langford) killed herself and chose to explain why on a series of cassette tapes, didn’t have enough story to adequately fill 13 hours of television. Nevertheless, it still told its story from beginning to end. That’s a problem for season 2 as the series struggles to justify the unnecessary continuation of what was a self-contained story.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p>For there to be 13 episodes in the first season was, if not totally necessary, at least ambitious in its design. The narrative device of Hannah’s recordings, mixed with the investigation into them made by Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette), along with <a href="https://screenrant.com/13-reasons-season-2-full-flashbacks-not-hannah-clay/">a multitude of flashbacks</a> featuring the show’s expansive ensemble cast, gave the series enough structure to partially mitigate the more ponderous parts of the season’s storyline. With Hannah now gone the focus shifts to the lawsuit filed by her parents against the school for failing to protect her, as well as a second thread involving Polaroids as evidence of just how rampant bullying and sexual assault really are at this school. The photos and the mystery surrounding them are little more than a lateral move for the series, a secondary device intended to further mimic the structure of season 1, that only affords <i>13 Reasons Why</i> a chance to rehash a story that’s already been told.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <strong>Click to continue reading <a href="https://screenrant.com/13-reasons-season-2-review/">13 Reasons Why Season 2 Review: An Unnecessary Follow-Up To A Self-Contained Story</a></strong><br /><br /> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/13-reasons-season-2-review/">13 Reasons Why Season 2 Review: An Unnecessary Follow-Up To A Self-Contained Story</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/">ScreenRant</a>
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May 18, 2018 at 01:05AM