Season 2's problem is that at takes on new sides to the story that fly in the face of how the characters related to each other in Season 1, says Jen Chaney. "It’s one thing to offer new perspectives on a complicated narrative," she says. "It’s a whole other thing to add layers that drain the emotional logic out of what we saw before." Cheney adds that Season 2 is "biting off more narrative than viewers can comfortably swallow. There are too many episodes, and every one is 15 minutes longer than it needs to be. At times, I was wading through this show rather than watching it. (When I got to the finale and saw that it was 70 minutes long, I let out an internal scream.) To its credit, 13 Reasons Why takes the concerns of young adults seriously. But it also heightens and exaggerates them for dramatic effect, which can make all those mined-from-the-real-world worries seem like the stuff of soap operas."
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TOPICS: 13 Reasons Why, Netflix, Brian Yorkey