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Spoilers below for the final season of13 Reasons Why.
13 Reasons Whyhas always been obsessed with traumatic events.
The stories recorded on those tapes explored a host of serious issues, including rape and cyberbullying.
(Netflixedited and replaced the scenein 2019.)
And how they will die?
But the horror motif goes even further than that.
Whole episodes are essentially imagined as mini-horror movies.
Kids have lived and will live with the prospect of being in this situation.
It is a very scary and very real thing.
This is where you would be very wrong.
(Major spoilers ahead.)
In the last episode, he is diagnosed with AIDS and dies.
He was an IV drug user.
When he lived on the streets, he also had sex with men for money.
(Whoops, I forgot to mention prostitution as another hot-button issue.)
This is how the show explains his diagnosis, which, okay, sure, I guess.
But Justin never says he feels ill until the last couple of episodes.
He goes to school everyday.
No one ever says a thing about the growths on his face!
I actually thought I was imagining them and that Flynn had some birthmarks I had never noticed before.
Yes, in its final act,13 Reasons Whyconvinced me that maybe I was hallucinating just like Clay Jensen.
The fact that Justin goes from diagnosis to death in a matter of days is utterly ridiculous.
The shows treatment of AIDS also is unbelievably insulting.
Its like the writers knew they wanted Justin to die and they picked a disease out of a cap.
We got [rummages through slips of paper shoved in pork pie hat]… AIDS!
Hey, Justin used heroin and he had sex with men a few times, so thatll track.
Clay touches on that idea in his commencement speech.
Just go with it, I guess?
Whatever happens, keep moving, Clay tells his classmates.
finale that sounds like a platitude.
But that only makes the sadistic nature of the material that much more glaring.
Some fans started watching this show when they were freshmen in high school and are now graduating seniors.
They didnt get a real prom this year.
The one they got from13 Reasons Whyends with someone almost dropping dead.
The class of 2020 didnt get in-person graduations.
It has to unfold in the wake of a funeral service.
