Netflix got me so hyped up for this show, the trailers were great the premise seemed dark, edgy and controversial almost like something you'd expect from HBO. I made sure to watch it only once i had enough time since i was thinking it could be a great binge watch... ...boy was i WRONG.

For starters this main character Hannah Baker, who they seem to try really hard for us to like, is just not likable AT ALL. Maybe they were trying for that but i seriously doubt it because its obvious from the directing style they do want us to feel sorry for her and like her.

Its a girl character that could have only been dreamed up by a man writing fiction about his ideal high school crush. She is smart, snarky, funny, sarcastic, pretty, has a svelte classy voice, is willing to talk to the nerds, but is also a cool girl who the jocks all want to bone and she has just that "right" level of slutiness, enough to get her in trouble but not enough to make her seem like an outright villain like the girls in Mean Girls or The New Guy.

So whats not to like right ? Well...thats the problem, truthfully her life is/was better than probably 98% of girls in high school would probably expect to have, yet she goes out of her way to torpedo it. She makes bad decision after bad decision, puts faith in the wrong people, is NOT willing to learn from mistakes and move on or take any responsibility for her actions. She is honestly, just a ticking time bomb aka "crazy b!tch".

Now i know, that cyber-bullying is a real problem, teenage suicide is also NO laughing matter but this is really not the way to portray it. It boils a complicated psychological issue down to something trivial like simple narcissism and "all about me" culture.

So when they could have made it about a relateable character, they chose to go with a prissy drama queen who had a great life and could have lived happily if she wasn't so outrageously shallow and fickle. She does not represent the average type of girl that goes through this type of bullying, in the real world normal girls get bullied for many things that are legitimately out of their control, not just because they were drama queens like Hannah Baker.

So im not really sure what the message here is supposed to be other than saying "Hey its not just fat girls and gingers who get bullied ! look hot girls from good families get bullied too ! Its a real problem now bruh !"

Its a real shame, this could have been good, and they could have presented a real case for addressing suicide and modern day bullying but all they seemed to do was stir up controversy to get people to watch a show that was honestly pretty damn cheesy.