translated from Spanish: The end of 13 Reasons Why came to Netflix

In 2017, “For 13 Reasons Why” landed on the Netflix grid and quickly became a phenomenon that attracted the attention of the youth audience (its average target) and several controversies as to the content (and explicitity) of its images. The series created by Brian Yorkey extended far beyond Jay Asher’s young adult novel and the story of Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), the Liberty High student whose suicide is the trigger for this mystery-laden drama.   To the surprise of many, after the first season and 13 cassettes loaded with truths and accusations, the drama went ahead to tell the ins and outs of the civil trial that the girl’s parents started against school, while their classmates try to unmask the real culprit: Bryce Walker (Justin Prentice). At the same time, we learned that “Hannah wasn’t the only one,” and the story of suspense, cover-ups and lies is repeated again, this time with instant photographs instead of tapes.  

By the third installment of “13 Reasons Why,” the filmmakers had already exhausted almost all the traumas a teenager can go through, dodging to show a school massacre nearly perpetrated by Tyler Down (Devin Druid): a constant victim of the bullying of his peers, to which we must also add an unnecessary sexual assault. Avoided the bombing during a school dance, Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) and his classmates decide to keep this new secret and try to get on with their lives. Of course, peace lasts little at Liberty High (certainly America’s worst fictional school), and they must soon face Walker’s suspicious death.With this fourth season (now available to watch on Netflix) comes the end for the series and graduation for its protagonists…, but not the end of conflict. Recent events extend to this new instance – of only ten episodes – threatening to bring to light all those lies that the boys were covering up, especially the real culprit of Bryce’s death and Tyler’s weapons that went into the river.

Everyone has a secret 

The suspicions of Winston Williams (Deaken Bluman), who seeks to clear the name of the late Monty (Timothy Grenaderos), and those of Sheriff Diaz (Benito Martinez) will put Clay back under the magnifying glass, adding pressure on the young men, and threatening to uncover the truth; something that wouldn’t hurt, considering how damaging it was to hide it from long before Baker’s suicide.” 13 Reasons Why” was always characterized by raising dust due to its controversial themes and the way to bring them to the screen. But its real dilemma, which is put at the service of the melodrama, is this constant concealment by the protagonists, which provokes the mystery season by season, transmitting the most contradictory messages to their young audience. Let us hope that this outcome will leave a more concrete and less twisted moral, and take up the spirit of that first season that abused its resources and narrative tricks, but was much more consistent and sincere with its characters and disjunctives.    
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