“Everyone is just so nice until they drive you to kill yourself” claims Clay Jenson, the 17 year-old protagonist of 13 Reasons Why, Netflix’s new original teen drama. The adaptation of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why follows a group of 12 high school students as they piece together a story as it is described on a series of cassette tapes left for them their classmate Hannah Baker, who has died by suicide.
On the tapes, she recalls instances of sexual harassment, slut-shaming, rumours and rape that she alleges ultimately caused her to take her life, each attributable to one of the classmates that her tapes are delivered to. Executive produced by the actress and singer Selena Gomez, the small-screen adaptation follows the reactions to the unravelling mystery of Hannah’s death.
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