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. Felindie
    Jul 16, 2019
    4
    This season was a nonsense, the plot was ridiculous, the characters were annoying.
  2. sofakingmeta
    May 23, 2018
    4
    Season 1 was great and presented a troubling decision in a compelling and unique way. Season 2 fails the first season so badly that it should never have been produced...in many ways Season 2 completely dilutes most of what was great about Season 1.

    Season 2 seems to be more interested in PC damage control, creating gray areas and being edgy than it does at telling a compelling story    Season 1 was great and presented a troubling decision in a compelling and unique way. Season 2 fails the first season so badly that it should never have been produced...in many ways Season 2 completely dilutes most of what was great about Season 1.

    Season 2 seems to be more interested in PC damage control, creating gray areas and being edgy than it does at telling a compelling story like the season before it. The entire season just feels like a hamster wheel experience, time passes but you don't feel like you've gone anywhere or done anything of any significance. I kept waiting for something big to happen but it never did and certainly never captured the "what happens next?" aspect that Season 1 did. The major plot lines are incredibly predictable and cliche. It looks as if there could be a setup for a Season 3 which is unfortunate.

    TL;DR They should have kept this to the first season to preserve its magic. Nothing of any real significance happens in 13 hours and any small bits that do happen are massively predictable. This season ruined what should have been a classic.    … Expand
  3. drambuie_
    May 31, 2018
    4
    this season really crossed the line! suicides, gun shootings, far too cruel bullying and legal help gets you nothing at all !? If you want to show such a serious problem you are obliged to show solutions!! not even one character of this series tallked to an adult or teacher and they all took matter to their own hands! this series have a really young audience and they are setting the worstthis season really crossed the line! suicides, gun shootings, far too cruel bullying and legal help gets you nothing at all !? If you want to show such a serious problem you are obliged to show solutions!! not even one character of this series tallked to an adult or teacher and they all took matter to their own hands! this series have a really young audience and they are setting the worst possible examples. there should made more series/movies pointing out at the right direction for solving a problem than just making you lose faith and showing you how terrible life in highschool is. (take a look at the comments on the series instragram account, i got terrified. )… Expand
  4. KingDevil999
    Jun 3, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So just recently finished this new, perhaps unnecessary season of 13 reasons why, let's start by the pros, the soundtrack remains awesome and each music selected fits with each scene nicely just like in the first season, especially at the ending of episode 9, also Clay although a few problems showed up to his character in this season, it's now less disturbed and faint in contrast to the first season where people played with him almost all the time.
    However the cons is the thing really smashing this season quite a bit, there are considerable plot holes from start to finish, characters who appear for a few secs and only show up again far later, or not even that some disappear completely, certain characters taking questionable and plain dumb decisions that feels completely off compared to the first season and how they behave and most of them are just plain depressive
    Also compared to the first season, this one tries to go the darker, violent way in many moments,clay constantly seeing hanna in his head as if this was fight club, now going back to the darker/violent moments, this applies especially to the final episode with the now infamous bathroom scene that perhaps was something forced in and completely unasked, as if the writers are trying to turn this into a way too violent teen series
    Despite all this, the biggest flaw is how the Hannah character got mostly butchered, the first season portrays her as this vulnerable, shy and sometimes just plain weak teenager girl constantly target of other people, but at the same time kind, friendly and very loyal(jessica was a good example when it came to loyalty) who end up leaving these tapes to make people self consciousness of their acts that lead her to the unfortunate act of suicide
    Now in this season this was almost all thrown away, hannah looks like a slut most of the time, FAR too forgiven also a problem that clay ended it up having in this season, she doesn't appear to like clay that much in contrast to the first, often shoving herself into weird ass relationships(cof cof dampsey) and giving her dumb and laughable dialogue lines unfit for the character that was built in the first season.
    One last point i wish to write are the new "tapes", basically split between polaroids and testimonies, the polaroids idea is quite interesting, especially if you are a fan of life strange it may give the feeling they were inspired by it and they have a rather important role,the testimonies however aren't that good, most of them is where the plot holes come in and messes with the plot of the first season.

    My final thoughts are, this season is truly unnecessary as most people say it, it doesn't have a source material which is likely the reason many mistakes were made it by the writers trying to making this into another exaggerated dark teen drama, hannah character was mostly butchered/damaged, clay now has a bigger motivation in contrast to the first season but at the same time is way too forgiven to other characters such as justin, zach, jessica etc    … Expand
  5. DoUEvnLft
    May 21, 2018
    6
    While it's still not great, and a lot of the character writing can still be fairly confusing and weak at times, I believe that as a whole Season 2 is a large improvement over the first. Far more consistent in quality, and much more nuanced, showing a far more conflicted side to Hannah's death (rather than just romanticizing her as a pure victim). Many characters are still confusinglyWhile it's still not great, and a lot of the character writing can still be fairly confusing and weak at times, I believe that as a whole Season 2 is a large improvement over the first. Far more consistent in quality, and much more nuanced, showing a far more conflicted side to Hannah's death (rather than just romanticizing her as a pure victim). Many characters are still confusingly self-righteous and entirely averse to being held accountable, which stunts the believability a bit at times, but many characters I had problems with in the first season are much more convincing and well-written now.… Expand
  6. kman5473
    May 20, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While not as perfectly composed as season 1, season 2 still holds itself up to the highest possible standard I could think of with the subject matter it deals with: being brutally honest and holding no punches. I once again applaud the effort made, and the unfiltered perspective into this world of deep, dark emotions. Controversial? Absolutely.

    In terms of arc structure, I found this to be just as addictive and binge-able as the first season. Having said this, I believe the way in which mass shootings was handled was very much put on the back-burner, and not really at all the focus of the season. This, for me, feels inappropriate handling of such series and relevant subject matter. Especially the ending: how dangerous it is that, while the whole first seasons and the majority of the second season is about learning to report information to the proper authorities, we have our main protagonist putting himself at the end of the barrel of the gun of the proposed mass shooter.

    This, and this alone, confirmed my suspicions while watching through the whole second season: the writers of the show are biting off way more than they are prepared to chew. Absolutely disappointing, as well as infuriating.    … Expand
  7. JulianIncen
    May 5, 2019
    5
    For me, the second season of '13 Reasons Why' is a little better than the first one. More exciting, more character development and one secret than another that opened the can of speculation. Let's see what plot they have in the third one that is already confirmed for this year.
    I watched the whole show from an iPhone, so maybe that's why I got engaged.
  8. michaelinperson
    May 22, 2018
    4
    The show is justifying by delving into its last season's devastation, i'll give it that. But prolonged and like the embodiment of one dodging important questions with only some implicated truth, 13 reasons why is frustrating more than it is insightful.
  9. thedaywalker
    May 27, 2018
    6
    Season 1 was probably the best show i watched last season. It was quick, the information was given to us quickly, the acting was superb and it had 1 clear purpose, tell Hanna's story. Yes during the season it had other informations and sub-plots. This season however has so many things it was to do that in the start it drags so much it gets boring.

    The addition of information felt    Season 1 was probably the best show i watched last season. It was quick, the information was given to us quickly, the acting was superb and it had 1 clear purpose, tell Hanna's story. Yes during the season it had other informations and sub-plots. This season however has so many things it was to do that in the start it drags so much it gets boring.

    The addition of information felt forced, and some actually made season 1 seem better than it was. Some scenes and information just seemed to be added to simply drive the plot forward then to drive the characters. I had to force myself to watch episode 1-5 completely, but episode 6 started to be decent, and episode 9 made me glad i got there, it was simply the best episode of the season

    The finale was... i don't even have the words to describe it, that one scene was completely exaggerated, they could have had other ways to drive their point across, i thought it was too much. But the wake, the "reasons why not" list was very nice.

    I thought season 2 didn't need to exist, and from now on they just want to add season, because season 1 was successful, hopefully season 3 will be better than this one    … Expand
  10. EmperorofDubbo
    May 21, 2018
    6
    I always thought Season 2 would have to be something special to match Season 1, but it seems it was a bridge too far. Personally, Season 2 should have been a stand-alone show with a new cast & would have delivered the new message without bearing the weight of comparison to what Season 1 was able to do. Season 1 was outstanding, Season 2 is watchable
  11. Jokohama
    May 31, 2018
    6
    They tried to tell more stories to be related with nowadays society, but it felt lengthy and excessive, even boring.
  12. Douglasreynholm
    May 19, 2018
    6
    to the fact that people say it's unnecessary to have a second season shouldn't be it main reasons to why this season isn't better than the last, it's problem is with characters who come and disappear and magically turn up when the story needs a character to be there, it also suffers from it's main plot with the trial of the bakers. however the shows isn't totally bad as people say it is asto the fact that people say it's unnecessary to have a second season shouldn't be it main reasons to why this season isn't better than the last, it's problem is with characters who come and disappear and magically turn up when the story needs a character to be there, it also suffers from it's main plot with the trial of the bakers. however the shows isn't totally bad as people say it is as seeing all the characters back it's nice to see and learn more about them and also as i did say there are problems with the baker case it is interesting to see what side they will tell. so in total season 2 was in some cases a disappointment but not as a much as people are saying. and also if you didn't like season 1 your properly not going to like season 2 which begs the question. why did you even watch season 2 in the first place if you didn't like the first season?… Expand
  13. Milesschabel
    Jun 7, 2018
    4
    How do you make Thirteen Reasons why worse. You do this by making the characters worse, the last episode a complete underwhelming mess, the cinematography way blander, and writing that reeks of padnering. It's easy to start a conversation, it's another to make the conversation even more hostile.
  14. Weareconnected
    Sep 6, 2018
    4
    The premise was there however too many questions were left unanswered and half truths were consistently presented. The most disturbing storylines were the brutal attack in episode 13 and the rape trial which saw male power and money diminish the victims. In both cases the victim was left without a voice and the teen audience is being shown that there is no support for the victim. As aThe premise was there however too many questions were left unanswered and half truths were consistently presented. The most disturbing storylines were the brutal attack in episode 13 and the rape trial which saw male power and money diminish the victims. In both cases the victim was left without a voice and the teen audience is being shown that there is no support for the victim. As a parent and empath this was completely upsetting to me. As a victim of bullying it left me fearful for those who don't have power and those who watch this and feel empowered for the wrong reasons. Season 3 will absolutely need to step up and empower the right characters the right way.… Expand
  15. hornysoul
    Sep 21, 2018
    4
    Netflix, porquê continuar a série? Porque não aproveitaram os enormes lucros da primeira temporada (um sucesso monstruoso) e não criaram uma série com outro conceito diferente?
    A história tornou-se desinteressante, aborrecida e completamente sem nexo. Alguns momentos de certos episódios foram bons, mas isso não bastou. Uma pena!
  16. LucaCritics
    Mar 28, 2020
    6
    13 Reasons Why Season 2 Review: 6/10
    I think it made sense to continue the show to see everyone's point of view, but I don't think it was managed in the best way.
  17. tdh1878199410
    Feb 13, 2022
    4
    13 Reasons Why's sophomore season sports good intentions and crafts some very powerful moments on occasion, but its crucial message on suicide is dampened as its morphs into an unfocused chronicle of its characters that has little to do with its initial premise.
  18. branjsmith
    Jan 1, 2023
    4
    13 Reasons Why's sophomore season sports good intentions and crafts some very powerful moments on occasion, but its crucial message on suicide is dampened as it morphs into an unfocused chronicle of its characters that has little to do with its initial premise.

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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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