History Series / ThirteenReasonsWhy

* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Clay tricks Bryce into confessing that he raped Hannah, and records it onto the blank side of the last tape. He then gives it to Tony, who makes copies of it, one of which is given to Hannah's parents. Just like usually happens in reality, [[RealityEnsues it isn't admitted as evidence]].]]

** The tapes themselves are treated as a trump card for the Baker's lawsuit at the end of season 1. In reality, while they'd give the Bakers some additional evidence for their lawsuit, they would make it (and any future criminal cases for those involved) ''extremely'' messy from a legal standpoint. They are evidence of a crime withheld for several weeks and passed through the hands of a dozen different people, many of whom gave conflicting testimony in their depositions. If they are admitted as evidence, the tapes (as well as the circumstances surrounding the tapes and the conflicting depositions) provide plenty of opportunity for the school's lawyers to attack their credibility and induce plenty of reasonable doubt. And [[UpToEleven that's not even mentioning]] [[spoiler:Bryce's]] [[EngineeredPublicConfession engineered recorded confession]] which, depending on the judge and legal precedent, may not even be ''admissible''. RealityEnsues in season 2, as neither is admitted as evidence [[spoiler:resulting in the Bakers losing the trial]].

* RealityEnsues:
** In the book, we never see the full fallout from the tapes. Thanks to AdaptationExpansion, we see that because Hannah killed herself, named the people she deemed responsible, and made them all listen to exactly why she thought they led to her death, [[spoiler:two of the people named nearly attempt suicide, one does attempt suicide and is left in critical condition, and one is stocking up to shoot up the school]].
** [[spoiler:The fallout from the revelation of Hannah's tapes also backs the school into a very tight corner, as their star athlete Bryce confesses to being a rapist and their staff noticed many signs that Hannah needed help but did next to nothing to help her, often ignoring or downplaying the signs.]]
** [[spoiler:Bryce only gets three months probation after being convicted of Jessica's rape. His wealth, expensive lawyer and star athlete status ensure him a lenient sentence. This contrasts to Justin who doesn't have that safety net and gets sentenced to more time than Bryce, despite being an ''accessory'' to Bryce's felony.]]
** [[spoiler: During season 2, Mr. Porter's willingness to [[TheAtoner atone]] for letting Hannah Baker down, makes him an enemy of the school who wants to forget what happened and save their reputation. After he testifies during the trial and admits [[TearJerker with tears in his eyes]] that he should have not let Hannah walk of his office, because he suspected she might be suicidal, the school board votes to fire him and make him the fall guy for Hannah's death.]]

* MixedAncestry: Jessica is shown with a black father and a white mother. Her actress Alisha Boe is the same.

* NotSoDifferent: Used word for word by Tyler to Clay, regarding Hannah and their [[DoggedNiceGuy respective]] [[StalkerWithACrush feelings]] toward her.

** In season 3 Monty. He’s constantly homophobic towards others yet [[spoiler:has sex with another boy twice.]]

* DeadToBeginWith: Hannah Baker [[spoiler:and Jeff Atkins]].

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Clay and Hannah in their WillTheyOrWontThey relationship. They attracted by each other but due to his fear to be rejected and her "I'm not deserve him" insecurity,they couldn't be officially together and with Hannah's death , their story remains inachieved.

** In Season 3 [[spoiler: Jessica gets this from a lot of people when she leaves Alex and goes back to Justin. Especially, given the reason she does it, because Alex isn't as good at sex as Justin is.]]

* PowerTrio: Clay, Justin and Jessica fit the trope. After the focus shifts away from Hannah, they are the most focused characters. In Season 2 and 3, Clay is TheHero, Justin is TheLancer and Jessica is TheChick. The finales of seasons 2 and 3 end with them on the last scene.

** Played straight with [[spoiler:Montgomery De La Cruz. Unlike Bryce, Monty never shows any remorse for any of his crimes (from letting Bryce rape Hannah with no remorse to trying to tempt Alex into shooting himself out of failure to stop Hannah’s rape and suicide) even after being arrested. The only people shown actually mourning him were the people extremely close to him (Winston, a football player and his sister with Ani and Alex being the only other people to show remorse for him). He goes to jail for raping Tyler with a mop pole after Tyler finally confesses and is killed by other prisoners because of his rape of Tyler. While it’s universally agreed he didn’t deserve to be framed for murdering Bryce, it’s also agreed his death was well-deserved.]]

** Season 4: [[spoiler:Justin dies of AIDS that he picked up while living on the streets. Alex will always live knowing that he's a murderer and the guilt he feels from that. However, the living friends reaffirm their status as TrueCompanions who will always help each other out if needed. Clay is finally getting the therapy he needs to heal from the trauma and move forward with his life. Jessica lets go of Bryce and her anger at all the things he did. Alex has accepted his sexuality and is finally in a happy and loving relationship and Tyler is also in a loving relationship. Everyone is moving forward with college and their lives, and they are ready to heal from the past.]]
** The series as a whole ends this way. Hannah, Jeff and Justin are dead, Bryce tries to atone for his crimes but fails and ends up being killed by Alex who will now have to live with the fact that he murdered someone and that his friend Clay was in jail for it for the rest of his life and Marcus gets away with his actions without any punishment (besides being suspended). However, both Bryce and Monty are dealt with permanently meaning that they can never harm anyone again and the surviving characters graduate and move on to college so that they can live their lives and heal from the past.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"The truth will out, like someone said once. It remains."'']]

** Justin Prentice plays Bryce, a high school rapist. Certainly not the [[Series/Preacher2016 first time]]. Although, the only difference is that Bryce isn’t in Hell. [[spoiler: At least, not at first.]]

''Thirteen Reasons Why'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original series adaptation of the [[Literature/ThirteenReasonsWhy novel of the same name]] by Jay Asher. After reading the book, Creator/{{Selena Gomez}} started talks in attempt to [[TheMovie adapt the story into a film]]. After being stuck in DevelopmentHell for seven years, the series was released on March 31, 2017 to generally positive reviews.

One day, Clay Jensen (Creator/DylanMinnette) receives a package in the mail containing 7 [[TwoDecadesBehind cassette tapes]]. Upon playing the first tape, Clay hears the voice of Hannah Baker (Creator/KatherineLangford), the girl who killed herself just weeks before. The tapes are, technically, her lengthy suicide note. [[TitleDrop 13 reasons why]] she killed herself. 13 people who led her there. And Clay is one of them. Clay listens to the tapes one by one, slowly realizing what's been going on at his school... and what people will do to keep him quiet, sometimes to cruel and dark extremes.

On May 7, 2017, Netflix confirmed the series was renewed for a second season, which was released on May 18, 2018. The second season was received negatively, with many criticizing the need for another 13 episodes.

On June 6, 2018, Netflix confirmed a third season, containing 13 more episodes, which was released on August 23, 2019. Langford has departed the series.

A fourth and final season, this time of only 10 episodes, was confirmed on August 1, 2019, which was released on June 5, 2020.

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: In season 3, there's a group of female activists that have risen at Liberty High, led by Jessica. [[spoiler:Jessica [PassingtheTorch passes the torch (megaphone)] to Estela in the series finale.]]

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: In season 3, there's a group of female activists that have risen at Liberty High, led by Jessica. [[spoiler:Jessica [Passingthetorch passes the torch (megaphone)] to Estela in the series finale.]]

* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: In season 3, there's a group of female activists that have risen at Liberty High, led by Jessica. [[spoiler:Jessica passes the torch (megaphone) to Estela in the series finale.]]

** Bryce is disgusted when he figures out Monty [[spoiler: anally raped Tyler in the butt with a mop handle and threatens Monty to stay away from Tyler or he’ll report all of Monty’s crimes to the police.]]

** Justin is softened slightly in the series. In the book, he and Hannah dated for a while and then he abruptly broke up with her, breaking her heart. He doesn't do this in the series, and they never end up actually getting together. His abusive home life is also shown in great detail, and he's very much a pawn of the jocks he hangs around with. [[spoiler:He also tries harder to resist Bryce's attempts to get into the room with Jessica, while in the book, even Bryce himself is surprised by how quickly he got Justin to comply.]]

* LikeBrotherAndSister: Downplayed between Clay and Jessica throughout the seasons. [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe After befriending with Clay in Season 1 finale,]] Jessica becomes his most platonic relationship (Hannah, Sheri, Skye and later Ani in Season 3 were his LoveInterest while Courtney and him don't interacted a lot). In with his interactions with her, Clay speaks to her with more respect than other generally. And though Jessica treats him often as a kind of AnnoyingYoungerSibling, she cares about him as when he during Spring Fling in Season 2 finale or when he stays alone at the end of Justin's funeral in Season 4 finale. ]] They tend to support and defend each other.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: There are a few moments in which Katherine Langford reveals her Australian accent.

*** Coach Rick; there is no indication as to his departure and there's already a new coach in place.
*** Nina and Scott vanished without a trace sometime over the summer. Neither are seen at all during the flashbacks to the spring. See TheBusCameBack above for [[spoiler:Scott]].

* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Montgomery's father visits him in prison following Monty's arrest for sexually assaulting Tyler. What seems more important to Mr. de la Cruz is that his son assaulted ''a boy'', leading him to ask Monty if he's gay. When Monty replies with "What if I am?," his father spits on him and leaves.]]

* JerkJock: All but one (arguably [[spoiler: two if you count Zach]] and now [[spoiler: three counting Charlie]]) of the school's jocks are total jerks. Jessica openly talks about how the jocks at their school are considered on a totally different level than everyone else, Kat also states that the school only recognizes the jocks as students of value and considers every other student to be a sideshow, and even the jocks themselves mention multiple times that they are playing by different rules (whether in dating, sports, classes, partying, popularity or even immoral actions) because of their athletic ability. Bryce especially takes the cake, as he not only bullies others, but he's also [[spoiler:a serial rapist who has no remorse for forcing himself on Jessica (after browbeating Justin into letting him do so) and Hannah]].

** Bryce to Zach. They are both stars at Liberty High being at the top of the popularity food chain as Liberty Tigers. Zach is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold wwhen Bryce is a male version of BitchInSheepsClothing. Both have very good living conditions with a strict but present mother for Zach and absent parents for Bryce. [[spoiler: Season 3 proves this too in their respective relationship with Chloe (Caring and sypportive Zach in constrast to rapist boyfriend Bryce)]].

* Bryce is disgusted when he figures out Monty [[spoiler: anally raped Tyler in the butt with a mop and threatens Monty to stay away from Tyler or he’ll report all of Monty’s crimes to the police.]]
* [[spoiler: Monty is murdered by prisoners in jail who killed him after discovering how he raped Tyler.]]

** Played straight with [[spoiler:Montgomery De La Cruz. Unlike Bryce, Monty never shows any remorse for any of his crimes even after being arrested. The only people shown actually mourning him were the people extremely close to him (Winston, a football player and his sister with Ani being the only other person to show remorse for him). He goes to jail for raping Tyler after Tyler finally confesses and is killed by other prisoners because of his rape of Tyler. While it’s universally agreed he didn’t deserve to be framed for murdering Bryce, it’s also agreed his death was well-deserved.]]

** The series as a whole ends this way. Hannah, Jeff and Justin are dead, Bryce tries to atone for his crimes but ends up getting killed by Alex who will now have to live with the fact that he murdered someone and that his was in jail for it for the rest of his life and Marcus gets away with his actions without any punishment (besides being suspended). However, Bryce and Monty are dealt with permanently meaning that they can never harm anyone again and the surviving characters graduate and move on to college so that they can live their lives and heal from the past.