Season 1: 13 Reasons Why is a series focusing on controversial subject matter revolving around suicide, rape, bullying and peer pressure between teenagers. As the episodes move on, the elements get increasingly more graphic, disturbing and hard to watch, but it sure does pick up the conversation. It's filled with excellent teen-like performances, an extremely engaging concept and is often realistic, despite the fact that real people dealing with these topics will call it stereotypes when it's not stereotyping the topic, it's a depiction of a few teenager's struggles.

Season 2: Despite outstanding performances, uncomfortable subject matter and teenage material, 13 Reasons Why's second season should've just left the first one alone. It picks up on the cliffhangers and depicts the Liberty court case, and while it's usually entertaining, there's also other sequences when it can actually be quite boring and uninteresting. The cast does an even better job and the season provides more mysteries surrounding the death of Hannah Baker. It doesn't need to continue with more seasons.

Season 3: 13 Reasons Why turns its gripping suicide mystery into a boring murder mystery with an uneven conclusion. It really should've finished after the first or at least the second season, but they made the mistake of continuing with a mystery around the death of the most hated character in the show. Unlike the first season which has voice-overs of Hannah's tapes or how the second season has voice-overs of the student testifying, Season 3 is narrated by a new annoying character. They felt the need to have thirteen full episodes, so the story mostly heads nowhere and is extremely boring but interesting at times. And for a series that sheds light on mature subject matter, there's thankfully a lot of humour in this season.

Season 4: This emotional finale could've been limited in three seasons, considering the third season was mostly just lazy and went absolutely nowhere with its 13 prolonged episodes. Thankfully, 13 Reasons Why's fourth season doesn't waste time on 13 episodes, but the first half of the season is pretty unwatchable and everything big only occurs in the second half. The performances are brilliant, the last episode is like a graduation movie, it still deals with heavy topics and certainly continues the conversation.

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