13 Reasons Why (2017)
If you're listening, you're too late.
High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 31 March 2017 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 5 June 2020 |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery |
| Created by | Brian Yorkey and Jay Asher |
| Starring | Dylan Minnette, Grace Saif and Christian Navarro |
| Seasons | 4 seasons, 49 episodes |
| Episode length | about 55 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 45 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.5/10 |
Where to watch 13 Reasons Why
13 Reasons Why is streaming on Netflix ($17.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 2 months of Netflix, or $35.98 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
The tagline says if you're listening, you're too late. It’s a fair warning. The show treats high school not as a place where things happen to you, but as a pressure cooker where silence has a cost. Each episode runs about 55 minutes, stretching the grief across 49 total entries. That’s 45 hours of sitting with the question of why.
What the critics said
Rotten Tomatoes gives the series a 35% average rating. Metacritic lands on 60 out of 100, a score based on 38 reviews that signals mixed or average reception. The reception is polite but lukewarm, the kind of verdict that suggests the show worked well enough to survive, just not well enough to stick.
How it did with audiences
TMDB users rate the series 7.5 out of 10. Without box office data, attention is the currency. Jumpshot reported the first season was the second-most viewed Netflix season in its first 30 days, capturing 48 percent of the viewership of Daredevil’s second season. Viewership climbed 18 percent from week one to week two. The second season drew 6.08 million viewers in its first three days. It logged 496.1 million hours viewed, landing as the eighth most watched English-language series on the platform. The audience skewed young, 75 percent aged 34 or under, and female, 65 percent. A specific recipe for a very particular kind of attention.
What came next for the cast
Dylan Minnette had already survived Prisoners and Don't Breathe. Then he walked into Scream and The Open House. Alisha Boe moved from Paranormal Activity 4 to Do Revenge and Yes, God, Yes. The credits list what followed. They cannot prove the show caused it. Sometimes a career just changes lanes.
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Sources
- 13 Reasons Why on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q18464203 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “13 Reasons Why” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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