That trial replaces Hannah's audio tapes as the season's basic framing device. Season 2 opens several months after the finale, with Hannah's suicide still casting a shadow over the town and her parents' lawsuit against the school dominating the local conversation. It's not that there aren't loose ends worth exploring. But despite all that, Season 2 never makes an entirely convincing case for its own existence. Multiple characters hammer home the notion that there are more sides to Hannah's story and other points of view to consider. There's a self-aware quality to the series, as creator Brian Yorkey and his crew openly acknowledge the criticisms leveled against Season 1 and the lingering concerns over the existence of a sequel. That's a question that's very much at the forefront of the series as Season 2 begins. What is there to be gained from revisiting Hannah Baker's story? In the process, it used up the entirety of the Jay Asher novel. The goal was to show us why troubled teen Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) committed suicide, and the first season definitively answered that question. The confusion came from the fact that Season 1 told a largely finite and self-contained story. Not because the first season wasn't a well-crafted teen drama ( you can see my review here), or because its apparently massive viewership numbers didn't warrant a follow-up. There was a lot of collective head-scratching when Netflix announced a second season of 13 Reasons Why.

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