13 REASONS WHY (L to R) DEVIN DRUID as TYLER DOWN and DEAKEN BLUMAN as WINSTON in episode 404 of 13 REASONS WHY Cr. DAVID MOIR/NETFLIX © 2020
13 Reasons Why has its journey. What began as a teenage story touching bullying, rape civilization, and suicide become a court-room play (season 2) and murder puzzle (season 3) and eventually became a psychological thriller in the final season, which is currently streaming on Netflix.
The story picks from where season 3 left off, right. Students at Liberty High are dealing with Monty de da Cruz’s death, and they used it to cover-up Bryce Walker’s murder. They’re within their graduation season and have little time left on their palms and a lot more lies to cover up. As they prepare for college, they’re trying their very best not to get involved with a new fuss. But guess what they have to deal with.
The focus is entirely on the first cast, and the narrative forcibly progresses to give them a proper closure. Some characters appear to generate some improvement to the story without really doing anything, but they have lost.
This season, following Hanna Baker (Katherine Langford) and Ani Achola (Grace Saif), finally Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) becomes the narrator, and the story is told from his view.
It is more comfortable to listen than Ani to the story from him, but it becomes confusing. You can’t conclude what is real and what’s not like your character, who holds the show has anxiety issues, and he cannot at times differentiate reality. But, there’s no denying that Minnette is a saving grace. He compels you to empathize with his character to search through him. It is his functionality that makes you sail through this desirous and pressured finale.
Creator Brian Yorkey had cut the season short by three episodes and gave the audiences a long finale and nine dull episodes that has a runtime of one-hour-38-minutes. The show should have been ideally fast and gritty, but it ends up seeming more dragged.
The single great that the season does is how important it’s to approach it in the stage and that it desperately wants you to talk about teens. It strives best to stir a dialog about sexuality and normalizes as far as you can.
13 Reasons Why has always been on point for representation, and it does it well in this season also. Does this try to sugar-white coat supremacy? Like the last season, Jessica Davis (Alisha Boe) and Tony Padilla (Christian Navarro) outrightly wonder the government and the discrimination the people of color undergo daily. When Jessica leads how to stand out between police officers and raged pupils, episode 8 will remind one of the continuing George Floyd protests in the united states.
Apart from this, the soundtrack of this series is a winner. Right to Beach House to Vampire Weekend to St Vincent from Elton John, the season has a right mix.
The very best that 13 Reasons Why has done thus far is currently bringing uncomfortable topics into the discussion table. You can give season 4 some advantage for that, but it is stagnant. The season does not add some value to the story and adds nothing to it. You may not want to pick this one, but you can view it to understand the reality of stress.