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Showing posts with label 13 Reasons Why (Netflix). Show all posts
Showing posts with label 13 Reasons Why (Netflix). Show all posts
Thursday, August 15, 2019
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
No
I recommend watching "13 Reasons Why," which is a series on Netflix. I have watched both seasons that have been released and while I liked Season 1 a bit more than Season 2, I will simply say I know what I'm talking about:
The only thing the article gets right is that there is a suicide by a high school student. The series then marches through how that suicide affects 13 other people that the high school student claims contributed to her decision to commit suicide. It's really ironic that the same site that runs this article about "13 Reasons Why" also recently ran an article in which the medical professional quoted in the article said that the phrase "commit suicide" is not accurate because "commit" is what happens when you do something you should be ashamed of: murder, being committed to a mental health ward, etc. and that suicide is not like that.
I didn't agree with that article either.
What I told my sister-in-law when she and I were discussing potential binge-worthy shows on Netflix is that yes, there is a suicide on the show. What I saw in the show is how devastated the high school student's friends are by what the high school character chose to do. Her parents are a wreck and their marriage falls apart. Another girl begins drinking booze. And there are many other sub-plots that I can't even mention.
I think that some scenes with the high school character's parents are devastating, especially the flashback scenes when conversations that seemed like a BIG DEAL at the moment really weren't, in the BIG PICTURE of the lives of these characters.
This article is bullshit:
Youth Suicide Rates Increased Following '13 Reasons Why' Debut
The only thing the article gets right is that there is a suicide by a high school student. The series then marches through how that suicide affects 13 other people that the high school student claims contributed to her decision to commit suicide. It's really ironic that the same site that runs this article about "13 Reasons Why" also recently ran an article in which the medical professional quoted in the article said that the phrase "commit suicide" is not accurate because "commit" is what happens when you do something you should be ashamed of: murder, being committed to a mental health ward, etc. and that suicide is not like that.
I didn't agree with that article either.
What I told my sister-in-law when she and I were discussing potential binge-worthy shows on Netflix is that yes, there is a suicide on the show. What I saw in the show is how devastated the high school student's friends are by what the high school character chose to do. Her parents are a wreck and their marriage falls apart. Another girl begins drinking booze. And there are many other sub-plots that I can't even mention.
I think that some scenes with the high school character's parents are devastating, especially the flashback scenes when conversations that seemed like a BIG DEAL at the moment really weren't, in the BIG PICTURE of the lives of these characters.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Don't Agree
http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/13-Reasons-Why-premiere-canceled-after-Texas-shooting-483080931.html
Sorry, but I don't agree with this decision.
The series is FICTION!!
Life and death are serious things, make no mistake. At the same time, I am not sure canceling the red carpet event brought the victims back. Oh wait, it doesn't.
I watched the first season. The description in the article reads like the author is regurgitating what others have said, not firsthand experience.
I think it's incredibly difficult to criticize or label something that I have never seen. I can say that I don't think I will like something but I don't think that I can judge it without seeing it.
I think that if the answer to an a$$hole killing people is to not show TV, that a$$hole has won.
I think that this is a temporary gesture that has no substance. For example, after 9/11 - yes, I know it was a terrorist attack - there were certain songs that were not played on the radio, such as Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because it was deemed to be insensitive to the victims of that attack. Is that song played on the radio now? Yep. Why? Is it no longer insensitive to play it? Have the victims grieved "long enough" so that it can be played without a bunch of people saying it is insensitive? Yep. If the people behind cancelling the premier were really trying to be sensitive, they would remove the series from Netflix. And I liked the first season of the show! If it's insensitive today, then it is tomorrow and until the end of time, right? Right?!?
Sorry, but I don't agree with this decision.
The series is FICTION!!
Life and death are serious things, make no mistake. At the same time, I am not sure canceling the red carpet event brought the victims back. Oh wait, it doesn't.
I watched the first season. The description in the article reads like the author is regurgitating what others have said, not firsthand experience.
I think it's incredibly difficult to criticize or label something that I have never seen. I can say that I don't think I will like something but I don't think that I can judge it without seeing it.
I think that if the answer to an a$$hole killing people is to not show TV, that a$$hole has won.
I think that this is a temporary gesture that has no substance. For example, after 9/11 - yes, I know it was a terrorist attack - there were certain songs that were not played on the radio, such as Drowning Pool's "Bodies" because it was deemed to be insensitive to the victims of that attack. Is that song played on the radio now? Yep. Why? Is it no longer insensitive to play it? Have the victims grieved "long enough" so that it can be played without a bunch of people saying it is insensitive? Yep. If the people behind cancelling the premier were really trying to be sensitive, they would remove the series from Netflix. And I liked the first season of the show! If it's insensitive today, then it is tomorrow and until the end of time, right? Right?!?
Monday, July 10, 2017
13 Reasons Why
I started watching "13 Reasons Why" on Netflix so that I could speak intelligently about the series. In addition to the reactions on this thread - https://www.quora.com/What-was-13-Reasons-Why%E2%80%99s-impact-on-you - I would add that, for me, it shows that there are always friends & family of someone who takes their own life that are impacted by their loved one's death.
I can speak about one of my co-workers, Penny, who committed suicide on February 1, 2012. I had no idea she was contemplating ending her own life and, when I learned about what she had done, I was very sad. I had joined the department in late May 2011 and I questioned whether adding me to the team impacted her decision. I will say that Penny was a recluse when I knew her for those few months and while I know that, it hasn't given me comfort. I can also say that after (roughly) April 2012, Penny's name was rarely, if ever, spoken at work. Occasionally, I would come across a work artifact that she had worked on and I would chuckle as I remembered her. Then I would make my revisions and life would go on.
Perhaps Penny's suicide is the exception to the norm. Without getting into plot summary, which incidentally I found myself doing in my private journal as I began watching the series, Hannah is nothing like Penny, given that Hannah is fiction and Penny was not. Hannah left a lasting and permanent impact, like a volcano's ash that burns as it makes its way, forever impacting lives. I am ready for episode 5 in the series. I will keep trying to find the time in my schedule to watch an episode until I reach episode 13. I am somewhat curious how the show could have a long-term run. It is a limited scope to have '13' specified in the series and to then have the series continue beyond '13' into additional episodes. If the number wouldn't have been included in the title - "Reasons Why" - the series could go on for years upon years, but not when there is a known end.
Whether the series is named appropriately or not, there is supposed to be a second season in the future. If I can make it through the remaining episodes, I likely will watch the second season as well.
I will say, thus far, my favorite things about the series so far are:
I can speak about one of my co-workers, Penny, who committed suicide on February 1, 2012. I had no idea she was contemplating ending her own life and, when I learned about what she had done, I was very sad. I had joined the department in late May 2011 and I questioned whether adding me to the team impacted her decision. I will say that Penny was a recluse when I knew her for those few months and while I know that, it hasn't given me comfort. I can also say that after (roughly) April 2012, Penny's name was rarely, if ever, spoken at work. Occasionally, I would come across a work artifact that she had worked on and I would chuckle as I remembered her. Then I would make my revisions and life would go on.
Perhaps Penny's suicide is the exception to the norm. Without getting into plot summary, which incidentally I found myself doing in my private journal as I began watching the series, Hannah is nothing like Penny, given that Hannah is fiction and Penny was not. Hannah left a lasting and permanent impact, like a volcano's ash that burns as it makes its way, forever impacting lives. I am ready for episode 5 in the series. I will keep trying to find the time in my schedule to watch an episode until I reach episode 13. I am somewhat curious how the show could have a long-term run. It is a limited scope to have '13' specified in the series and to then have the series continue beyond '13' into additional episodes. If the number wouldn't have been included in the title - "Reasons Why" - the series could go on for years upon years, but not when there is a known end.
Whether the series is named appropriately or not, there is supposed to be a second season in the future. If I can make it through the remaining episodes, I likely will watch the second season as well.
I will say, thus far, my favorite things about the series so far are:
- Hannah calls Clay a nerd because of a reference to "Star Wars" before going on to describe someone as being Kryptonite to Superman, which is equally nerdy.
- Clay is confronted by a teacher about a cassette player and asks Clay what he's listening to. Clay lies and says they are his dad's tapes and mentions the band "Ultravox" (which I had never heard of) and "Duran . . . Duran?" It's delivered totally as a 'guess' that "Duran Duran" is actually a band.
- Clay's dad tries to balance on the tightrope of being a 'cool' dad and also being a 'parent' - I relate to that balancing act.
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