13 Reasons Why

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 31, 2017
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 299 Ratings

User score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 67 out of 299
  3. Negative: 103 out of 299
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  1. tonyyan
    Sep 22, 2018
    0
    I have spent almost 5 months watching this and couldn't get it done. If you are a fan of the first season, don't watch it. This show successfully ruins every character that you liked.
  2. D0v4hk1n
    May 20, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They obviously are going for a third season. Otherwise why put us through this garbage? YES, "garbage". There was no point to watching this season, I feel robbed of 13 hours of my life.… Expand
  3. joshdkaye
    May 21, 2018
    2
    With the first season, I understood the ennui that presided over the plot. But this season is awful. Everyone is in a constant state of depression, someone is crying or yelling every 5-10 minutes. Hate it.
  4. lilhodde
    May 23, 2018
    0
    I don't think anyone should rate this if they have not seen the second season. It was great! .. Until the second season's last episode. Absolutely disgusting and distasteful. Everything you've seen before on tv. Yes, there are raped scenes and they are graphic, but it's something we have seen before. The bathroom scene in the last episode though. That only puts thoughts in kids heads andI don't think anyone should rate this if they have not seen the second season. It was great! .. Until the second season's last episode. Absolutely disgusting and distasteful. Everything you've seen before on tv. Yes, there are raped scenes and they are graphic, but it's something we have seen before. The bathroom scene in the last episode though. That only puts thoughts in kids heads and it's the worst of the worst. I will make sure to go to every site and netflix and rate this show so that people aren't tempted to watch it. Also, you can't justify putting that in there with the excuse of "it's based on true events". Terrible. Shame on you netflix for allowing it even after being instructed not to by research analyst!… Expand
  5. hosekisho
    May 23, 2018
    0
    Basically, Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why didn't need to exist. The first season was a fairly self contained adaptation of the only source material. With the second season, there is no source to adapt from, and it shows. The writers retroactively add events that are unneeded and mess with the first season's plot. Many plot points built up over the course of season 2 lead nowhere satisfactory,Basically, Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why didn't need to exist. The first season was a fairly self contained adaptation of the only source material. With the second season, there is no source to adapt from, and it shows. The writers retroactively add events that are unneeded and mess with the first season's plot. Many plot points built up over the course of season 2 lead nowhere satisfactory, including the finale. Largely, the season comes across as an excuse ride the success of the prior season rather than stories that needed to be told.

    It is my truthful recommendation to anyone that enjoyed the first season to leave the series on that high note instead of moving forward with this trash. I regret having watched it.    … Expand
  6. MehranZk
    May 23, 2018
    0
    sure as hell not a 0, but the show insistently tries to ruin good memories from season one, furthermore a new season was always unnecessary because of that great ending of last season. BTW one of the dumbest things in this season is Clay seeing Hannah in his head !
  7. imaginetruly
    May 19, 2018
    0
    My god, what was that season? What message did you want to spend this season? that women should be silent even more to see that the accusation for rape did not help at all? by making them lose hope or even the desire to report their aggressor because of the fact that in the head drla and for what happens in the series did not advance anything, or that even after all that happened theMy god, what was that season? What message did you want to spend this season? that women should be silent even more to see that the accusation for rape did not help at all? by making them lose hope or even the desire to report their aggressor because of the fact that in the head drla and for what happens in the series did not advance anything, or that even after all that happened the bullying continued to happen in the college, that people bad remains unpunished and make people afraid to talk about what is happening so as not to be raped and beaten in the bathroom as happened to one of the characters in the last episode? This season was simply a joke, it was a bigger trigger even than the first, as far as capitalism does not go, we realize by these things that the biggest goal is not to help, but to profit.… Expand
  8. TheFreeman148
    May 30, 2018
    0
    I mean, does anybody ACTUALLY think bullies are sodomizing kids with mops these days?
  9. susanarego
    May 25, 2018
    0
    This shows first season was great it ended with closure and it was awesome until it wasn't, it should've been left at that, the second season did not match the ending of the first one. Alex didn't die?? I just hated everything, and now this season was left with no closure what so ever, meaning they're probably coming back with season 3.... oh god no!
  10. jaxson
    May 28, 2018
    1
    They really should have just left it at Season 1. Season 2, nah, that was a bad call!
  11. MPDurivou
    May 21, 2018
    1
    Hannah Baker's suicide note-tapes plagued last season with slow-paced insights into the characters to whom they were addressed. In season 2, these tapes are replaced with courtroom testimonies that do the same thing: they focus on a different character each episode and ask how that character is to blame for another teenager's suicide. The problem with that is that the characters stayHannah Baker's suicide note-tapes plagued last season with slow-paced insights into the characters to whom they were addressed. In season 2, these tapes are replaced with courtroom testimonies that do the same thing: they focus on a different character each episode and ask how that character is to blame for another teenager's suicide. The problem with that is that the characters stay shallow and the themes that are attached to them are quickly forgotten when the show moves on to someone else the next episode. You simply can't deal with the complex topics of sexuality, mental illness, self-harm, bullying and sexual violence in one show. These things need to be handled carefully and deliberately, especially when the themes are as heavy as suicide or rape and you know most of your viewers will be teenagers who are heavily influenced by what they see online.

    Let's ignore the mishandling of all these issues for a second and focus on the show's storytelling. In a teen drama like this, the show has to be fueled by, of course, drama. And most drama is centered around dialogue and, in the case of this show, a lot of monologues. These are linked to the trial that ties the episodes and characters, and therefore the whole season, together. And it is absolutely awful. The trial is a parade of slut shaming and victim blaming and an absolutely dreadfully executed courtroom drama that just drags on and spawns the flashbacks that provide the events and action of the show. The monologues are a combination of oddly wise statements that no teenager without a script could come up with, forcing one to think that maybe these are all just twenty-something year olds with an odd amount of muscle mass and tattoos and badly written scripts. The dialogue is even worse, drifting between forced, unfunny wit in lighter moments and pretentious, unrealistic rambling in others. People just don't speak that way. The same could be said for Tarantino's mix between dialogue and monologue, but Tarantino's work is fun. This is not. The most dreadful part of all this is having to sit through the Blame Game that is 13 Reasons Why, where you have to sit through thirteen hours of people blaming each other for the death of a girl who committed suicide.

    No one is to blame for suicide. A murder has murderers, a suicide doesn't. No exceptions. There is no one to blame for something that horrible; not the person who committed suicide, not anyone around them. But this is season 2. Season 1 was the same and a lot of people called Netflix out on that, from. What did Netflix do with all that feedback, both from people who experience mental health issues and those who are experts on them?

    The only change Netflix made was a tiny announcement stuck to the start of every episode that this is a show that might shock some people, providing a link to a website that both gives visitors some numbers for suicide prevention hotlines all over the globe. They deserve some credit for that, but no more. Minimal effort.

    In the first season, despite the presense of the most extreme consequence of mental illness, mental illness itself was entirely absent. The real murderer of Hannah Baker, depression, wasn't acknowledged in season 1, and it still isn't now. There is, however, a character who suffers from bipolar disorder. There is one scene in one episode that deals with this, but I'll take what I can get. Sadly, the depression-part of the disorder isn't acknowleged and the mania is explained as trying to jerk your boyfriend off in front of his parents. That is all the representation the mentally ill get in a show about suicide that, otherwise, does representation and diversity quiet well. There's at least one of all the races, sexes and orientations that get some quality screen time. Of course, trans people, big people and the mentally ill don't exist.

    There is one main character who experiences mentall illness and that is the show's main character Clay, who sees Hannah as a hallucination. Now, a hallucination that isn't drug-induced is simply a psychosis. Psychoses are most often experienced as a part of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia but can also be a result of postpartum depression or depression. This psychosis isn't a psychosis in the show, it's simply a story device that perfectly represents the insult that is 13 Reasons Why.    … Expand
  12. MDolloway
    May 23, 2018
    0
    Completely unnecessary violence, bad written, bad plot, surrealistic dialog. A waste of time.
  13. thegalaxysedge
    May 23, 2018
    0
    Full offence but this show is complete and utter garbage, both objectively and morally.
  14. josektv
    May 18, 2018
    1
    Totally unnecessary, it is ridiculous to launch a second season with an ending already closed in the first, I hope there is no third, god, that would be horrible.
  15. MarcusSoriano
    May 20, 2018
    0
    Waste of time, ending to the show is pathetic how does a guilty rapist who raped 3 women only receive 3 months probation and gets to start over a brand new life at a new school because his rich daddy has a good lawyer. No justice at all whatsoever, as well as Tyler literally returned to school a changed man and still gets a mop shoved up his ass. WHAT THE **** honestly the story isWaste of time, ending to the show is pathetic how does a guilty rapist who raped 3 women only receive 3 months probation and gets to start over a brand new life at a new school because his rich daddy has a good lawyer. No justice at all whatsoever, as well as Tyler literally returned to school a changed man and still gets a mop shoved up his ass. WHAT THE **** honestly the story is pathetic and they need Justice for Tyler, those bullies should get smacked. This season is pointless and annoying, after all the testimonies the Bakers lose the case what the **** was the jury thinking why would a dead girl lie. SMH **** show.… Expand
  16. Masquic
    May 31, 2018
    2
    I don't really see the necessity of this season, I still watched it, I wish I didn't.
  17. Belznickel
    Jun 7, 2018
    2
    So dissapointed. Everything that worked in season 1 they just took an ruined it. Great job!
  18. vivek1142
    May 20, 2018
    0
    Totally pathetic, spreading wrong message out there. Cant believe I've been waiting for this disgusting series for a year,
  19. Raul74
    May 24, 2018
    0
    Useless waste of time, the first season was nice but this one is total **** and boring. Unfortunatley there will be a season 3...
  20. nikoziko
    May 18, 2018
    0
    wasn't a big fan of the first season , and well this season is even worse like it's a borderline mess
  21. spengrob
    May 26, 2018
    0
    There was absolutely no reason for a second season of this show and that was especially evident after finishing season 2. This season does very little to solve any conflict in the plot and only creates a dozen more conflicts for a cliffhanger finale to lead into another season. Not to mention they added in some paranormal stuff as an excuse to get the main character a role. I'm certainlyThere was absolutely no reason for a second season of this show and that was especially evident after finishing season 2. This season does very little to solve any conflict in the plot and only creates a dozen more conflicts for a cliffhanger finale to lead into another season. Not to mention they added in some paranormal stuff as an excuse to get the main character a role. I'm certainly not going to continue watching this show if nothing gets resolves and every season is a set up to milk yet another season out of this garbage.… Expand
  22. augustobt
    May 18, 2018
    0
    This is by far the worst content available anywhere. Terrible in every aspect, the plot is absurd, the acting is beyond terrible, the characters are dull and bland... This is a mistake from it's conception to execution.
  23. bigmutt
    May 31, 2018
    1
    The pace drags, the dialogue is unnatural and cheesy, the plot is dull and absurd, and I constantly found myself wanting to fast fwd to something relevant & interesting.
    I was a big fan of Season 1 .... but this second attempt was just a waste of time. MUCH more interesting offerings on Netflix.
  24. S0LiD
    May 24, 2018
    3
    The season 1 was stunning, shocking. Season 2 is bored, with this nonsense trial...
  25. poezwoez
    Jun 8, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really enjoyed watching the first season and it had me hooked until the very last second. I thought season one's ending was amazing and really made you think, I felt like there shouldn't have been a second season. However, sadly enough, there was. I decided to give it a shot. I regret it as I felt like the show is now ruined. Basically every episode in this season is exactly the same, just with a different episode. Every episode was like this:
    1) Voice over from one of the reasons
    2) That reason in court
    3) Clay drama
    4) Random school drama
    5) Lawyer turns the reason their words around and make Hannah look bad
    6) Clay is mad
    7) Unnecessary plotlines to fill an hour
    The routine got very boring. This whole season built op to nothing and there was nothing exciting happening. Even the last 5 minutes, building up to a school shooting, immediately took a twist and didn't happen. The cliffhanger is literally the fact that nothing happened and that Clay happens to hold a gun. I'm still giving this a 4 because of the character development and the fact that some scenes and plotlines were actually interesting.
    It's sad that 13 Reasons Why is one of those shows that got ruined by milking it out. Especially knowing there will be ANOTHER season.    … Expand
  26. JBS
    May 16, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Season 1 had some pretty decent moments, was a solid 6 or 7. Season 2 however I'd absolute pig plop in every way. Truly awful writing, the acting seriously declined too. (probably because there's no way to convincingly pull off that terrible dialogue)
    Every single episode seems like it's there just to infuriate the viewer. The lawyer representing the school might be the worst character I've ever seen in a TV show. The irony is the frustration of watching this show made me want to commit suicide. Nothing gets resolved, every bad thing goes unpunished, literally everyone in it is now a piece of sh*t in some way. Embarrassing.    … Expand
  27. All_ButTrU4
    Jan 4, 2022
    1
    Basically, Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why didn't need to exist. The first season was a fairly self contained adaptation of the only source material. With the second season, there is no source to adapt from, and it shows. The writers retroactively add events that are unneeded and mess with the first season's plot. Many plot points built up over the course of season 2 lead nowhere satisfactory,Basically, Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why didn't need to exist. The first season was a fairly self contained adaptation of the only source material. With the second season, there is no source to adapt from, and it shows. The writers retroactively add events that are unneeded and mess with the first season's plot. Many plot points built up over the course of season 2 lead nowhere satisfactory, including the finale. Largely, the season comes across as an excuse ride the success of the prior season rather than stories that needed to be told.

    It is my truthful recommendation to anyone that enjoyed the first season to leave the series on that high note instead of moving forward with this trash. I regret having watched it    … Expand

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Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    May 31, 2018
    40
    The Netflix teen drama’s second season is occasionally arresting, but wholly unnecessary.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    May 24, 2018
    40
    This wallow in angst ends up being mostly insufferable. [28 May - 10 Jun 2018, p.17]
  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    May 22, 2018
    50
    Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why takes a dive in quality from the show’s first which, for all of its flaws, remains a moving tragedy and a potent conversation starter. ... Season 2 employs Polaroid pictures as the breadcrumbs propelling along its feeble mystery. Along the way it also leads us through Jessica’s journey as an assault survivor, indubitably the season’s strongest storyline.
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