Long Term Television - 13 Reasons Why
Since before, lots of long term television series were always a thing and more of them are produced on different entertainment company such as Netflix or Youtube Red. A TV program I'm going to talk about is 13 Reasons Why on Netflix, originally a novel by Jay Asher.
13 Reasons Why is a teenager drama, about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide and left a cassette tapes talking about the reasons why she did so. Hannah do not exist anymore, so the narrative is told by Clay Jensen who had crush on her. The reason why Hannah committed suicide is more than a teenager's simple emotional ups and downs, but a twisted and tangled human relationship, trouble, an incident.
The story might seems to be extreme in some way because the main character has already died, but I think this is the most realistic teenage drama. It's not just American culture I'm talking of, but something that can happen in world wide, and I've personally seen something happening like this in my life and couldn't take it as a simple media. Baker goes through bullying by Brice Walker, not physically but mentally. However, she cannot do anything about it because the image Brice seems to the adults is kind and generous, and his family background is too strong. Also, she loses her best friends because they were not respecting Hannah as their best friends and I feel like this part is what really happens all the time. I personally went through this moment several times, and some people would say do not care about them, you're too good for them and so. But if you do not have anyone to support you like that, then what? I think this is not about having friends and how close you are, but the most basic stuff about respecting a person and that's why Hannah was pushed to commit suicide.
This drama really has a good narrative about explaining characters in realistic way, but at the same time, I'm worried if this could encourage teenagers to commit suicide and do what Hannah did. There is actually an articles about '13 Reasons Why' tied to rise in suicide searches online. It has a good narrative and realistic characters, but watching these drama sometimes aware me if this can encourage people to mimic such media.
13 Reasons Why is a teenager drama, about a girl named Hannah Baker who committed suicide and left a cassette tapes talking about the reasons why she did so. Hannah do not exist anymore, so the narrative is told by Clay Jensen who had crush on her. The reason why Hannah committed suicide is more than a teenager's simple emotional ups and downs, but a twisted and tangled human relationship, trouble, an incident.
The story might seems to be extreme in some way because the main character has already died, but I think this is the most realistic teenage drama. It's not just American culture I'm talking of, but something that can happen in world wide, and I've personally seen something happening like this in my life and couldn't take it as a simple media. Baker goes through bullying by Brice Walker, not physically but mentally. However, she cannot do anything about it because the image Brice seems to the adults is kind and generous, and his family background is too strong. Also, she loses her best friends because they were not respecting Hannah as their best friends and I feel like this part is what really happens all the time. I personally went through this moment several times, and some people would say do not care about them, you're too good for them and so. But if you do not have anyone to support you like that, then what? I think this is not about having friends and how close you are, but the most basic stuff about respecting a person and that's why Hannah was pushed to commit suicide.
This drama really has a good narrative about explaining characters in realistic way, but at the same time, I'm worried if this could encourage teenagers to commit suicide and do what Hannah did. There is actually an articles about '13 Reasons Why' tied to rise in suicide searches online. It has a good narrative and realistic characters, but watching these drama sometimes aware me if this can encourage people to mimic such media.
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