1. Doing stupid things, including killing yourself, is never your fault but everyone else's.

2. Teenagers are not just dramatic, they are SUPER dramatic! They always throw stuff when upset and leave in the middle of a conversation for no reason except that the scene has to be over.

3. Seemingly normal, upper middle-class parents are completely clueless about their kids and allow them to walk away from very serious discussions without getting an explanation.

4. The most useless student counselor in the world keeps getting screen time where he keeps asking kids the dumbest questions possible and keeps getting zero answers.

5. The show expects you to care about a completely mental, self-centered drama queen that thinks she's a special snowflake and can't handle even the smallest problem but complains when other's get mad at something she does and thinks they should "get over it".

6. The show also expects you to continue to find it charming when Clay can't finish a sentence for the thousandth time or has his one thousandth and first flashback/daydream.

7. Soldiers and policemen behave the same way at home with their families as on their job. They bark out orders and their kids have to call them "sir".

8. Virtue signaling! Diversity! Black guy? Check. Black girl? Check. Asian guy? Check. Asian girl? Check. Gay couple? Check. Gay/lesbian teens? Check. Brown guy? Check. Brown girl??? Wow, Netflix, really? Just wow...

9. Popular high-school kids notice and care and interact with the nerds.

10. The show thinks you will forget all the little scenes where questions are raised and then never again touched upon or answered.

11. Almost every semi-serious dialogue between teenagers is written as a scene from a Tarantino movie.

12. Also, during important moments, characters never say what they know or feel but instead just walk away in order to create drama.

13. "Have you listened to the tapes yet?" "No."; Have you listened to the tapes yet?" "No."; Have you listened to the tapes yet?" "No."