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Each season of 13 Reasons Why now opens with a PSA. “13 Reasons Why is a fictional series that tackles tough, real-world issues, taking a look at sexual assault, substance abuse, suicide, and more,” says Justin Prentice, who plays a jock and serial rapist named Bryce Walker. Katherine Langford, who for two seasons portrayed Hannah Baker—one of Bryce’s victims, who ultimately killed herself—continues the advisory: “By shedding a light on these difficult topics,” she says, “We hope our show can help viewers start a conversation.“ Then comes Alisha Boe, who plays rape survivor Jessica Davis: “If you are struggling with these issues yourself, this series may not be right for you,” Boe says. “Or you may want to watch it with a trusted adult.”

Netflix added this introductory video to the series last year—just one of several updated content warnings the show incorporated after an outpouring of concern and critiques from viewers, parents, and mental health experts. But the warning creates a paradox. 13 Reasons Why tackles issues that a lot of real-life teens face—yet those who are currently dealing with those issues are not generally advised to watch the show. So who, precisely, is 13 Reasons Why for—and what, exactly, is it trying to tell them?

The show’s first season, based on Jay Asher’s popular young adult novel, was relatively self-contained: It examined why one teenage girl, Hannah Baker, chose to kill herself, as explained via a series of cassette tapes she recorded prior to taking her own life. Her suicide played out onscreen in uncommonly graphic detail, alarming experts who warned that such depictions could inspire copycats. But initially, the show’s creators defended their artistic choices, insisting that the scene was meant to be so gruesome, so upsetting, that it would dissuade viewers from attempting suicide themselves—even though experts warned such strategies don’t actually work. Only this year did Netflix and 13 Reasons Why creator Brian Yorkey announce that the show had finally chosen to edit the most graphic details out of the scene.

Meanwhile, in both its second season and its third, which premiered on Netflix Friday, 13 Reasons Why has broadened its scope. Now that it’s fully exhausted its suicide-focused source material, the series has incorporated a dizzying number of other hot-button issues—including active shooter drills, drug addiction, and family separations by ICE. But that foundational controversy remains key to understanding this series—both its philosophy and its limitations. The disaffected, cynical teenagers of 13 Reasons Why distrust the sorts of institutions we’ve historically been taught to believe in—schools and, at least in season one, psychologists and counselors—implying that it’s better to trust and invest in each other. But as the show’s third season proves, that message comes at a cost.

Season three’s central mystery is relatively simple: Who killed Bryce? The answer is complicated—but really, the season is primarily about comparing and contrasting Bryce and Tyler Down, a pair of troubled young men guilty of committing horrifying, even monstrous acts. (Bryce, as we know, is a rapist; in season one, Tyler secretly photographed Hannah Baker in a compromising position and disseminated the pictures across the school. In season two, he almost committed a school shooting after being raped by some classmates.) Both seek redemption. Bryce, as we find out over the course of the season, spent the final months of his life searching for ways to make amends for all the harm he had caused. Tyler spends the season in therapy.

The obvious difference between Bryce and Tyler is, of course, the nature of the wrongs they’ve done. Any sort of redemption story for Bryce was bound to be a fraught exercise, and 13 Reasons Why clearly understands that; for two seasons, it presented Bryce as an unambiguous monster. By season three, the series seems to believe that a young man like Bryce could conceivably see the error of his ways—but it seems no accident that Bryce dies before we ultimately find out whether or not he would have really changed. Either way, the show spends more time exploring this question than it does depicting the specific processes by which those who endured his assaults grieve and heal from the trauma he caused. Hannah died before she had the chance; Jessica reclaims her sexuality this season by restarting a romantic relationship with Justin, the boy who could have prevented her from being raped, and their relationship is largely portrayed as a complicated but ultimately romantic undertaking. It’s striking that neither Jessica nor Tyler’s therapy makes any real appearance in the series.

Throughout the season, characters debate whether what happened to Bryce was ultimately “just,” and whether he and Tyler are capable of real change. Either way, they tend to seek justice by looking anywhere but the criminal justice system; after all, a trial last season ended in Bryce getting off with a slap on the wrist. So rather than reporting Tyler for trying to shoot up their school, Clay tells his friends that the group must band together to help him heal and move past the attempted shooting—and avoid involving local authorities. Though he thinks Tyler could use professional help, “if we tell anyone what [Tyler] did,” Clay says, “then he’s expelled at least and probably in jail, and probably tried as an adult, so he’s in juvie until he’s 21 and then they send him to prison and then what happens to him?”

Toward the end of the season, we get our answer: One of the classmates who raped Tyler, Montgomery de la Cruz, does go to prison, where he is swiftly beaten to death, presumably by a fellow inmate. The group then chooses to frame Monty for Bryce’s death. So, yes—13 Reasons Why season three ends with a (heroic? insane? morally ambiguous at best?) act of deceit.

Is season 3 of 13 Reasons Why worth watching?

13 Reasons Why: Season 3 ReviewsIt just feels incredibly exploitative. If you want to have a show that helps you, go elsewhere. Season 3 is not as strong as its previous seasons, but that does not make it any less relevant.

What does season 3 of 13 Reasons Why focus on?

During the third season of "13 Reasons Why," Tony is faced with the realization that his family has been abruptly deported from the US. It is revealed that when he testified in the Hannah Baker case, Bryce Walker's family dug into his past and discovered that his family was not legally in the US.

Was season 4 of 13 Reasons Why good?

June 8, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review… Season 4 is a disaster that betrays 13 Reasons Why's characters, its only remaining asset. The show has squandered any goodwill left over by its once-charming cast.

Is Hannah in 13 Reasons Why season 4?

Does Katherine Langford appear in 13 Reasons Why season four? She does. Despite bidding farewell to the spirit of his first true love during season two, Clay is given one last chance to say goodbye to Langford's Hannah, the young woman whose death by suicide originally connected the show's key characters.