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Culture/ Film & TV

Review: ‘13 Reasons Why’ is Netflix’s newest must-see series, if you like high-school melodrama

Badly behaved students, cruelty, social media shaming, teenage suicide, revenge and blackmail. What’s not to love about this Netflix original?

Katherine Langford plays Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why.

High school is a treacherous place. Students are ruthless to one another. Hormones are bad-behaviour accelerants and adults are utterly clueless. Throw in social media shaming, sexism and suicide, and you have the basic building blocks for the addictive mystery that is 13 Reasons Why.

Directed by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), this Netflix original series is based on Jay Asher’s 2007 young adult novel of the same name. A girl ends her own life, but why? The answer slowly unfolds over 13 episodes.