TL:DR It's really good, and you should definitely watch it if you have a Netflix subscription, and if you don't, sign up for a trial and binge it.

Being my first review on IMDb, it takes a particularly good show to get me to say anything to anyone about it. After just finishing '13 Reasons Why' about 20 minutes ago, I have so much to say, but first and foremost, it is a fantastic show. One of the best I have seen in a long, long time. Originally, I didn't want to even watch the show due to the numerous gushing reviews praising the show for it's realistic showcase of Teen suicide, rape and much more. Not that I am against that in television entertainment, but I surely am not too keen on that kind of dark, dreary subject matter for my rare moments of time I have alone to enjoy any T.V. series at all (at least not at the time). But after being under the constant question of "hey have you seen that show yet?" and "Oh come on you have to see it's brilliant!" I decided to give it a go. Two short days after starting the show, I have finished the entire series of 13 episodes on Netflix. And I couldn't be happier that I did.

Without getting to personal, I, like many others, have had people in my life that I knew, and didn't know, commit suicide. 2 of those incidents where in my high school and middle school years. I remember vividly the pain and trauma the deaths of those kids created. The devastating effects of their deaths left to weigh on the shoulders of all who knew them. It was painful, dark and terrible. I knew, that when I was watching the first episode of this show, I was going to feel that again. This immateriality put me into the mindset of just how serious and genuine this show is. The show holds no detail back, making it one of the most authentic recollections of high school I have seen. The students incessantly curse, the students are rude to each other, the graffiti on the wall is vulgar and crude, people you meet turn on you, every one is trying to fit in, even if it is against their own personal morale code, the staff at the school are incapable of helping students deal with emotions or issues. All of these things are displayed through the show in incredible detail, and for the first time in a long time, I watched a show going back to high school and following the story of a suicide victim which was not hyperbole, which was not G-rated health class watching material, and was real. That alone made me fall in love with this show, and it's characters.

Aside from sentimental reasons as to why I enjoyed the show, objectively speaking, the shows actors/actresses are fantastic at their roles. Dylan Minnette's character of Clay is (for me any way) incredibly relate-able, and easy to empathize with, while Justin Prentice's character of the glorified ass-hole character of Bryce gives the people watching a person that we all know too well, the high school jock who is not only the most popular person around, but also one of the most terrible, cold hearted, two faced people ever known to man kind. All of the actors/actresses are fantastic at portraying the characters in the series, all with different purposes and personality's. Being that the concept of the show is 13 reasons why Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) killed herself, each episode devolves into specific characters, and what was happening in their lives specifically at the time that they did/did not do something to make Hannah feel as if she needed to take her own life. As such, there are very few filler episodes (if any, I don't recall there being an episode worth skipping or having little substance to the show) or a story that wasn't well done. Which leads me to the attention to detail in these scenes. Let's put it this way, the show certainly will make you uncomfortable in these scenes. Some are very hard to watch because of it. And that is by far one of the strongest attributes to the show. The lack of "sugar coating" and the absolute refusal to skip the "hard" or "taboo" topics in this series is beyond respectable. It's authenticity, it's acting, it's writing all culminate to make this one of my favorite shows I have seen in a very long time. And no, this show does not IN ANY WAY glorify suicide, or encourage the act. Its gritty nature and raw acting display that ten-fold. This is a show I believe you should watch just because it is so well done, but also to help better understand teen suicide, and how as people, we can all be better to each other by showing how not to treat one another. 13 reasons why is genuinely fantastic, and I cannot recommend it enough.