13 Reasons Why is one of the newest Netflix series available and it was real rough. Everything about this show was heavy and not always in the best way.

For those who actually haven’t heard the premise of 13 Reasons Why, it is about a teenage girl who commits suicide but she leaves behind 13 cassette tapes that explains the reason she did it. Each tape is addressed to a person who drove her closer to her suicide and the set is sent around to each individual talked about in the tapes. The show follows Clay, the slowest of all the listeners and we follow him trying to piece all of it together.

Starting off, the acting was great in this show. Every person that has more than two minutes of screen time can cry really well. The lighting was also very cool. In scenes that took place before the suicide, the lighting had a yellow, happier tint to it while the post suicide was a much bluer, sadder light.

Past that, the show had issues. It was paced terribly. Each episode was about 55 minutes but it could have been cut down to 35 minutes. It was incredibly slow and constantly regurgitates the same information not too long after it was first given to you. This makes the entire show absurdly slow and boring at some parts.

Characters also aren’t very strong either. There is a good handful of characters and the only one that shows any likable qualities is Jeff and he wasn’t even introduced until at least halfway through the show. Even Hanna (the girl who killed herself) was kinda a terrible person, all the way up to her death. Basically everyone involved is a villain and none of them show any redeemable qualities.