Great potential to present the reality of toxic school environments. Showing many small events that can snowball lead to people unalive themselves.

It correctly shows how easily it it for adults to be oblivious to the warning signs their kids might be exhibiting.

I stopped watching right before the court case. The story lines were becoming histerical and unrealistic. Keeping to simple 'them' and 'us' themes with characters two dimensional. The adults seem stuck in their mindset. The students only seem to bond over how to stop the tapes from becoming public.

This could have been a great story about a disfunctional community attacking itself trying to find an answer to why it's own young were exiting life. It might even have been how students band into groups, either to support and save their own or to maintain power and dominance.

Instead the writers opted to centre it on a technical story of: legalese; A battle of the law firms; how crushing legal debt destroys a family; mother and son navigate being on opposite teams.