13 Reasons Why

[Ms_Ann]

It's a show. If you haven't seen it, you should. It deals with bullying and suicide and teen angst and such. It has Selena Gomez' name on it but don't let that deter you. Sound track is modern. The main character is dead...

13 Reasons Why | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

But anyway...

 

[yossi]

I read the book, but haven't had a chance to watch as of yet. I've been looking forward to it.

 

[Ms_Ann]

I'm still creeped out from watching it a week ago.

 

[hashtag46]

It's a show. If you haven't seen it, you should. It deals with bullying and suicide and teen angst and such. It has Selena Gomez' name on it but don't let that deter you. Sound track is modern. The main character is dead...

13 Reasons Why | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

But anyway...

Over here they advise teachers: "One feels naturally inclined to pay homage to the victim, but try to avoid inadvertently glamorising suicide whenever it happens in schools."

Looks like whoever decided on the tv series was ill-advised.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Over here they advise teachers: "One feels naturally inclined to pay homage to the victim, but try to avoid inadvertently glamorising suicide whenever it happens in schools."

Looks like whoever decided on the tv series was ill-advised.

If anything, It's a littler preachy as far as how can we be better to each other...

 

[hashtag46]

If anything, It's a littler preachy as far as how can we be better to each other...

Haven't watched it, and you might actually be right.

It just reminded me of the awfully high rate of teen suicide over here, compared both to other countries and to previous decades.

There are all sorts of speculations why the rate is increasing, as it can't be due just to online bullying.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Haven't watched it, and you might actually be right.

It just reminded me of the awfully high rate of teen suicide over here, compared both to other countries and to previous decades.

There are all sorts of speculations why the rate is increasing, as it can't be due just to online bullying.

Are they blowing themselves up?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I was taught DEATH, JAUL, THERAPY, DRUGS are how most folks cope with stress and Mondays.

 

[Ms_Ann]

I was taught DEATH, JAUL, THERAPY, DRUGS are how most folks cope with stress and Mondays.

I practice avoidance.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Over here they advise teachers: "One feels naturally inclined to pay homage to the victim, but try to avoid inadvertently glamorising suicide whenever it happens in schools."

Looks like whoever decided on the tv series was ill-advised.

It was a book - one that is a decade old. The show has increased its popularity again (as typically the book is always better than a show or movie). I don't believe suicide is being glamorized remotely. People are beyond called out for how their bad behaviors contributed to the death of someone. I think it actually brings to light how harmful even just petty behavior can be towards teenage girls who are already facing body issues no matter what they look like. I can't speak for the show since I haven't watched it, but the book was quite haunting.

The setting is a high school environment where you have a different mindset, coping mechanisms, and reasoning capabilities - I think comparing it to the GB is a stretch since we are all allegedly adults and unlike high school have the freedom to step away from those we believe to be tormentors.

 

[Libsam]

They should do a show on Budd Dwyer (R), the politician that shot himself in the head on live TV when I was 8 years old.

He was convicted of receiving a bribe from a company that won the bid to fix their accounting books. He told everyone that he was innocent and was being framed.

20 years after his death it came out that the key witness who's testimony got Dwyers conviction lied under oath to protect himself and his family. Dwyer was innocent.

The Filter song "Hey Man, Nice Shot" could be the soundtrack, since it's about Dwyer shooting his face off on live TV.

 

[Disgustipated]

They should do a show on Budd Dwyer (R), the politician that shot himself in the head on live TV when I was 8 years old.

He was convicted of receiving a bribe from a company that won the bid to fix their accounting books. He told everyone that he was innocent and was being framed.

20 years after his death it came out that the key witness who's testimony got Dwyers conviction lied under oath to protect himself and his family. Dwyer was innocent.

The Filter song "Hey Man, Nice Shot" could be the soundtrack, since it's about Dwyer shooting his face off on live TV.

That song IS about that incident.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Beyond all the sexual abuse, the suicide and instances of cliquish bullying, the saddest part of the story is being this close to finding true love and being robbed of the chance.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Beyond all the sexual abuse, the suicide and instances of cliquish bullying, the saddest part of the story is being this close to finding true love and being robbed of the chance.

For which character? Clay? Hannah? Both?

 

[Ms_Ann]

For which character? Clay? Hannah? Both?

In Hannah's case, it probably would have saved her. In Clay's case, he not only has to live with the fact that he missed out on true love, as a survivor, he has to live with the knowledge that...it probably would have saved her. In some respects, the person that commits suicide...


gets off easy.

 

[Bookishleigh]

In Hannah's case, it probably would have saved her. In Clay's case, he not only has to live with the fact that he missed out on true love, as a survivor, he has to live with the knowledge that...it probably would have saved her. In some respects, the person that commits suicide...


gets off easy.

That was one aspect I recall from both reading and watching it - how well each captured the burgeoning romance and possibilities between the two and thus the great sense of that loss.

And I think Clay would in all likelihood find someone else one day down the road. He would never fully get over Hannah so the person who suffer the most would be the girl who could never fill a dead girl's memory.

 

[Disgustipated]

Imma binge this July 3rd.

 

[pointless]

my niece tried to get me to watch this, but i didn't wanna.

so i didn't.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Imma binge this July 3rd.

Nope.

 

[Ms_Ann]

my niece tried to get me to watch this, but i didn't wanna.

so i didn't.

There is lots...and...lots...of lesbian sex.

 

[pointless]

i doubt that.