I havent read the book so I dont know how close this is to the literary work. But this show seems to ride more on the directors emotions on what should be than what is technically illegal and culpable to crime. Sure hazing is illegal, but there probably is a distinct demarcation of what is merely being mean and what is actually a crime.

My assesment of this show is that I find Hannah Baker, a girl who is not only unable to or innately incapable of actively expressing her eotions and converting her thoughts into words, but wants people to excel at her guessing game and blames them when they either misinterpret or negatively react to her subtle expressions. By the way things panned out, even Bryce could not be held accountable for what he did as Mr.Porter aptly pointed out and the majority of the rest were being just what they were - teenagers whom you dont expect to be understanding and affectionate as great-grandads. If the writer or director's intent was achieving that, while noble, I'd say thats an unreal goal.

Im saying this from my personal experience. Im 37 now, all through my school life I had no friends. The nerds or the front benchers always thought they were more intelligent than me. The back-benchers thought I was too nerdy to fit in. I was physically weak, so the sports guys, even the school coach chided me saying I was too weak to actively take part and unfortunately not a girl so I couldn't get into cheerleading neither. For the few girls, I was always a stopgap between hookups(as a few of them were bold enough to say it in my face) with whom they could pass a few "boring hours". Even today I have less than a handful of friends and a hell lot of colleagues who dont care. But hey, c'est la vie! Doesn't mean you turn suicidal. You live on, go to sleep each day with the hope of a better tomorrow. Hannah Baker(or the director/ novelist) saw things totally opposite and chose to blame and bring down a few guys for their discrepancies or failure to communicate. Even if there was communication, I dont see how that would have helped in the longest possible run as there will always be someone who will be mean no matter how good you are. You gotta learn to live with it or life will teach it to you in the hardest way possible.

As far as the storytelling goes, I think it could have been done way better. A few technical goofs here and there. Since the mood was elegiac it should have, could have done with lot less color to accentuate the protagonist's dismal mood. Also one important goof is ideally one does the dominant hand first then the weaker else you wouldn't have the strength to use your weak hand to do the other later.