13 Reasons Why (2017)
13 Reasons Why is a 2017 drama series created by Brian Yorkey. It stars Dylan Minnette, Christian Navarro and Alisha Boe.
Clay Jensen comes home to find a box of cassette tapes on his porch, recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide. Each tape names a person and a reason, and Clay must listen to learn where he fits. Adapted from Jay Asher's novel and set at the fictional Liberty High, the Netflix drama moves between the present investigation and Hannah's account of her final months. It takes an unflinching look at bullying, isolation, and the small cruelties teenagers inflict, with Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford anchoring an ensemble of students.
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What is 13 Reasons Why about?
Clay Jensen comes home to find a box of cassette tapes on his porch, recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide. Each tape names a person and a reason, and Clay must listen to learn where he fits. Adapted from Jay Asher's novel and set at the fictional Liberty High, the Netflix drama moves between the present investigation and Hannah's account of her final months. It takes an unflinching look at bullying, isolation, and the small cruelties teenagers inflict, with Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford anchoring an ensemble of students.
When was 13 Reasons Why released?
13 Reasons Why was released on 31 March 2017.
How many episodes does 13 Reasons Why have?
13 Reasons Why has 49 episodes across 4 seasons.
Who made 13 Reasons Why?
13 Reasons Why was created by Brian Yorkey.
Where can I watch 13 Reasons Why?
13 Reasons Why is available on Netflix, Google Play, Amazon and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch 13 Reasons Why
Stream: Netflix
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Cast
- Dylan Minnette as Clay Jensen
- Christian Navarro as Tony Padilla
- Alisha Boe as Jessica Davis
- Brandon Flynn as Justin Foley
- Justin Prentice as Bryce Walker
- Miles Heizer as Alex Standall
- Ross Butler as Zach Dempsey
- Devin Druid as Tyler Down
- Amy Hargreaves as Lainie Jensen
- Timothy Granaderos as Montgomery de la Cruz
- Josh Hamilton as Matt Jensen
- Derek Luke as Kevin Porter
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A few thoughts on 13 Reasons Why
The game Life Is Strange follows a teenager untangling a classmate's disappearance and the weight of choices in a small-town high school. Jay Asher's source novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, gives you Hannah's voice on the page. For the moral machinery of blame and how a community turns on its own, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible still cuts deep.
Teen mysteries and the novel that started this one
13 Reasons Why turns Jay Asher's novel into a slow reveal, where one student's death forces a whole school to look at itself. These stories work the same nerve, a secret that spreads through friend groups and classrooms until nobody comes out clean. Start with the book that launched it, then keep pulling threads.
Unflinching dramas about guilt and the aftermath of a death
13 Reasons Why refuses to look away from what people did and failed to do. These dramas sit in the same hard place, tracing how a single loss ripples through families and towns, and how guilt reshapes everyone left holding a piece of it.
Games that sit with grief and hard teenage choices
Like 13 Reasons Why, these games hand you difficult decisions and make you live with them. They follow young people through loss, cruelty, and small mercies, letting your choices decide who gets hurt. If Hannah and Clay's story stayed with you, these interactive stories will too.
Mind games and confessions told through manga and TV
13 Reasons Why is built on testimony, one voice laying out who did what and why. These stories share that structure, unspooling through recordings, interrogations, and cornered characters forced to explain themselves. Expect deadly games of trust across Japanese comics and unsettling television.