The controversial Netflix drama series, 13 Reasons Why has managed to make headlines in the film industry ever since it aired. And unlike other cliche series, this one is woke. The kind that talks about the societal constraints and taboos, ideas and incidents that humans don’t talk about much, but those which exactly need the opposite – the ones that need to be talked about. Sucide, bullying, substance abuse and harassment are something the society doesn’t voice incidents about freely, but this series creates the awareness that our generation needs – but showing us the downsides, the horrors, the impact of it all. If you haven’t watched it yet, trust us, you’re missing out on alot. Here’s a detailed index to 13 Reasons Why, so that you can get started right away!
Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. "Tape 1, Side A" Check here
2. "Tape 1, Side B" Check here
3. "Tape 2, Side A" Check here
4. "Tape 2, Side B" Check here
5. "Tape 3, Side A" Check here
6. "Tape 3, Side B" Check here
7. "Tape 4, Side A" Check here
8. "Tape 4, Side B" Check here
9. "Tape 5, Side A" Check here
10. "Tape 5, Side B" Check here
11. "Tape 6, Side A" Check here
12. "Tape 6, Side B" Check here
13. "Tape 7, Side A" Check here
It all starts when Hannah Baker dies of suicide, leaving everyone stunned – and in a negative way, of course. Her closest pal, Clay Jensen gets his hands on a tape recorder which Hannah recorded before calling it quits on her life. The tape tells the tale of Hannah’s experiences with a number of her classmates, how they affected her and led her to take such a drastic measure. Clay listens to it and tries to piece the whole tragedy together.
The last tape is where Hannah recollects her last day in Liberty High. She visits her school counselor Mr. Porter tells him about the paradigms of her depression. She even confesses, albeit without naming Bryce, that she was physically assaulted by him.
Porter’s dry advice of either informing the authorities or moving on didn’t quite fare well with Hannah, and she left his chamber hoping he would come for her. Which he didn’t, even though she waited long enough.
Her bag had a tape recorder, so a live recording of her and Porter’s conversation was there in it too. She takes a box of tapes and delivers it to Tony, and another one to the post office to send it to Justin. And this is where the story starts.
Clay tries to take active measures on his part and manages to secretly record a conversation where Bryce confesses to harassing Hannah. He even meets Mr. Porter and accuses him of not having done enough when there time, which only ended up in Porter blurting out excuses.
Meanwhile, Bryce’s wrongdoing also hangs a sword on Justin and Jessica’s relationship, when the latter gets to know her boyfriend did not stop Bryce from committing such a crime. The tapes also cause major tensions and an eventual break up of Justine and Bryce’s friendship, now that the cat was out of the bag.
Justin tells Bryce that he knew who Bryce really was, and does not wish to be his friend anymore.
On the other hand, Alex was racked with guilt about the way he mistreated Hannah and shot himself when he was in critical condition. Tyler confesses to him and Hannah being bullied frequently at school and the existence of the tapes at the deposition. The Bakers wait to hear the depositions and discuss the next steps when Tony gives them the tapes to which they listen to in private.
Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. "The First Polaroid" Check here
2. "Two Girls Kissing" Check here
3. "The Drunk Slut" Check here
4. "The Second Polaroid" Check here
5. "The Chalk Machine" Check here
6. "The Smile at the End of the Dock" Check here
7. "The Third Polaroid" Check here
8. "The Little Girl" Check here
9. "The Missing Page" Check here
10. "Smile, Bitches!" Check here
11. "Bryce and Chloe" Check here
12. "The Box of Polaroids" Check here
13. "Bye" Check here
The second season of the Netflix drama series explores the lawsuit’s results filed by the Bakers against the school, and the kids finding out more insider information regarding physical assaults.
The Bakers, unfortunately, lost the lawsuit, and plan to get a divorce. They also decide to host a funeral for Hannah, where Mrs. Baker tells Clay that she is moving to New York to fulfill Hannah’s dream.
She hands him a document which Hannah wrote, titled “11 Reasons Why Not” – and Clay finds himself mentioned not only once, but twice. During the funeral service and after, Clay sees a hallucination of Hannah – something that he has been throughout the series.
He quotes his former lover and says that he loves her, and so he is letting her go. Hannah’s hallucination appears one last time at the church and then vanishes forever.
Bryce Walker and Justin Foley get arrested when Jessica opens up about the time she got sexually assaulted.
When she recounts her story during the courtroom ongoings, a montage of Hannah, Nina Jones, Courtney Crimson, Mrs. Baker, Sheri Holland, Mrs. Jensen, Mackenzie, and Jessica’s mom plays where all recount their experiences of getting sexually assaulted.
Bryce gets three-month probation, while Justin is compelled to serve half a year in jail. Jessica confesses about being upset regarding the sentencing but also empowered and stronger having said her story out loud.
Nina burns the box of Polaroids, one that included her picture too. Her reasoning was that she was assaulted too, and it was her story to tell – not someone else’s, which stands pretty justified.
Meanwhile, Bryce is now a distant friend once known to all, and he transfers to a private school. Justine gets out, courtesy of emergency custody, and tears up in Monet when Clay says that his family would like to adopt him.
He indulges in drugs later that night, regardless of having visions of himself as a child, and then attends the dance later.
A whole new character arc awaits Tyler when he returns to Liberty High and gets sexually assaulted as well. So much so that he ends up gathering heads and guns to burn the building and the culprits down for once and for all.
He is stopped or rather confronted by Clay who tries to knock some sense into him, reasoning that him getting out alive from this debacle is a hard pass. In the end, Tyler somehow manages to make Clay hold the guns when the police approach and Clay stands there – frozen.
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Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. "Yeah. I'm the New Girl" Check here
2. "If You're Breathing, You're a Liar" Check here
3. "The Good Person Is Indistinguishable from the Bad" Check here
4. "Angry, Young and Man" Check here
5. "Nobody's Clean" Check here
6. "You Can Tell the Heart of a Man by How He Grieves" Check here
7. "There Are a Number of Problems with Clay Jensen" Check here
8. "In High School, Even on a Good Day, It's Hard to Tell Who's on Your Side" Check here
9. "Always Waiting for the Next Bad News" Check here
10. "The World Closing In" Check here
11. "There Are a Few Things I Haven't Told You" Check here
12. "And Then the Hurricane Hit" Check here
13. "Let the Dead Bury the Dead" Check here
The season basically focuses on Bryce walker’s murder. An essential role is played by Ani, who was also the Walker family’s live-in nurse. She did begin a very awkward physical relationship with Bryce at the beginning of the season but ended up nurturing feelings for Clay by the end of it instead.
Season three skips two timelines ahead of where season 2 ended and is mostly perceived through Ani’s narration of what happened before Bryce’s murder to the cops. From trying to figure it all out and being a significant key to solving the mystery of the murder, Ani went on to ultimately helping Clay and his friends cover up the crime instead.
Meanwhile, Jessica comes out as a more powerful character when she becomes the Student Body President of Liberty High and even forms the Hands Off Our Bodies group for sexual assault survivors. She even gets comfortable in her own skin, and explores herself physically on her own and sometimes with the help of Justin.
On the other hand, Justin had a pretty stable life until Seth came in and disturbed the balance of it all. So much so that he ended up misusing and selling substances as well; Bryce had to literally bail him out of jail. In the end, he and Ani tried to pin the murder of Bryce on Monty, and by the end of it all, he confesses to the Jensens that he might need rehab.
Coming to the main plot point – how exactly was Bryce killed? Well, Bryce did record apology tapes for Jessica and Alex, but when he threatened to kill Zach once he recovered, Alex practically lost it. So in the heat of the moment, he ended up pushing Bryce into the river, who was already injured to half-death, Jessica and Alex watched Bryce drown, while Deputy Standall helped the kids cover up the murder.
Karma’s served when Monty gets arrested for sexually assaulting Tyler and even goes into a physical, intimate relationship with Winston before going to jail. By the end of the season, we find out that he gets killed by one of his own inmates for being a rapist. But when Ani and Clay and everyone else tries to pin Bryce’s murder on Monty to get away with it all, there’s still someone out there who knows the actual truth. Winston.
And whether the gang gets to get away with it all, and keep Alex safe is what gets answered in the final season of the series, Season 4.
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Episode Number Episode Name Link to the Episode
1. "Winter Break" Check here
2. "College Tour" Check here
3. "Valentine's Day" Check here
4. "Senior Camping Trip" Check here
5. "House Party" Check here
6. "Thursday" Check here
7. "College Interview" Check here
8. "Acceptance/Rejection" Check here
9. "Prom" Check here
10. "Graduation" Check here
The final season pans out just as controversially as the other seasons did. Every character completes their arc, gets their desired ending, some of which were disliked by fans and managed to spark controversies all around.
For starters, a few of them make their not-so-woke parents aware of who they actually are. Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes, Clay Jensen, finally tells his parents that he was involved in some serious school vandalism. Justin confesses to his parents that he has relapsed, Alex reveals that he was the one dating Charlie this whole time, with the latter also coming out to his parents as bisexual.
Prom was initially canceled, but somehow manages to be up and coming again. Charlie and Alex get crowned as the Prom Kings, but things take a sudden turn when Justine relapses. And guess what, it’s revealed that Justine had AIDS this whole time – and his drug abuse and frequent adultery practices did not quite help the situation. So much so that he contracts pneumonia and meningitis, and after confessing his love to Jessia breathes his last breath. And the ending that fans all over the world are extremely disappointed about.
Justin’s death affects Clay pretty badly, and he ends up at the police station confessing he has a gun. The Sheriff calms him down a bit, and he comes home to Hannah’s tapes sent by Mrs. Baker. Alex confesses to Winston that it was he who murdered Bryce, but the former keeps it a secret out of love.
By the end, Clay gets chosen as a speaker for graduation, after the ceremony of which he finds the college admission essay of Justin where he says how he saw Clay as a little brother and considered him to be the only positive thing in his life. During his speech, Justin sees one last vision of Hannah, while Jessica of Justin’s. All of them decide to move on and bury the tapes for good and resolve to be there for each other through and through.
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Overall, even though this show takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride, it’s a great show to binge. Just make sure to keep a pint of ice-cream to wallow with, it has a bittersweet ending, but a message so strong that it will send a chill down your spine. Take our word, this one’s a show that you would not want to miss – so start watching it already. Happy Binging!
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