I'm writing this spoiler-free review because this show has touched a nerve in me and the reaction to it by many people is confusing me. I strongly feel that the story was a very honest portrayal of the downward spiral into suicide and as a result i was affected quite deeply by it. Most of the negative reactions i've read to it are from people thinking that Hannah was just dramatic, over sensitive and self-victimising and therefore had no "right" to kill herself or blame anyone else. If you thought that then you simply didn't get it. What's annoying about it is that that was the exact point of the entire show. It was told from Hannah's POV and was supposed to show how her own emotional weakness and psychological personality were equally or even mainly responsible for her downward spiral. That's the complexity of suicide and the human mind. You can be a great, loving and generous person, as Hannah was, but also be incredibly flawed and lose sight of reality and self-victimise to ridiculous lengths.

I just wanted to advise new viewers to not assume that just because it's being told from the POV of the suicide victim doesn't mean that the writers are trying to say that what she thinks is always fact or morally right. The entire point is that some people are very sensitive, emotionally unstable and deeply flawed and it causes them to make bad decisions at times and these things can compound into suicide.

I'd just like to add that if you had already understood what i just described but still disliked it and thought Hannah was unrelatable and unlikable then that's grand, each to their own. If you didn't however then you really missed a fundamental part of the story about the reality of suicide.