I actually really liked this show. For a mature audience, it's very intriguing and rather well made. However, the show tries to balance two antagonistic elements -- entertainment and moralism, to portray a character who would, in reality, be a very troubled individual, in a story that is more romantic mystery/tragedy than psychological drama.

Despite the great acting and hooking dialogue, the story and characters can be really contradictory and unexplainable. The main character Hannah, for example -- her actions actually are more consistent with someone with a severe personality disorder, such as Borderline personality disorder. However, her depicted moods and tone don't suggest her actions at all. The kind of "drama" she generates in the show suggests a personality who is a lot moodier, more impulsive and very depressive. Instead the show largely tries to be a "fairytale gone wrong" by depicting her, for the majority of time, as an upbeat and gentle sweetheart who was wronged by the world.

Although the great thing about this show is that it does weave in a lot of complexity. There are characters who (inappropriately) take the blame for Hannah's suicide, and others who reject it. Hannah's subjectivity of experience is highlighted several times, but then ultimately the show sympathizes with Hannah's side of the story.

Sociologically/psychologically the show is pretty inappropriate because it depicts suicide and sets suicide as the final trump card. There is a scene where Clay hallucinates Hannah lying dead in a pool of blood, wearing a beautiful white gown. That scene is almost the epitome of romantic suicide. So sociologically this show is really not beneficial, but artistically it's twisted, dramatic and poignant.

The music, camera work, and editing are awesome. It does a really good job of painting a haunting and tragic yet also innocent and romantic canvas. Although the subject matter is dark the show itself is quite colorful and visually pleasing.

13 RW really does try to bite off more than it can appropriately chew. It tries to be interesting and entertaining yet also attempts to be frank and moralistic. Although it fails in some of those aspects, all in all it's a good show, and, despite the gimmicks, has a lot to offer.