Mom's 2¢ - Boys Should Watch 13 Reasons Why
Last weekend I binged watched 13 Reasons Why. My 13 year old daughter had already blown through it and I promised her (and myself) that I would watch it to discuss. Wow. I have a lot of thoughts -- I'll talk through some of those thoughts today. There is a lot of controversy swirling around Netflix's recently released teen drama about a high school suicide and the incriminating audiotapes she left behind. Here's the plot in a nutshell - Hannah Baker, a junior in high school, dies of suicide. She leaves behind 7 audio tapes on which she reveals the 13 reasons (and the 13 people) "responsible" for her suicide. She has left instructions for the tapes to pass to each of the 13 people. We follow her friend and crush, Clay Jensen as he listens to the tapes and navigates the heavy emotions, misdeeds, cruelty, and cover-ups that led up to and follow Hannah's death. Tough topics, right? And that is without digging into the "13 reasons why" which...