
Clay, who (spoiler alert!) ended Season 2 holding the gun a classmate had intended to use to shoot up the school dance, will have to decide what to do-and fast, as the police sirens were already nearing when the season finale came to a close. What else can we expect from Season 3? Well, there will definitely be more drama to come. Especially this year, the show’s chosen ending-one that left at least one student in serious jeopardy-seemed to indicate that 13 Reasons Why is more invested in suspense than a thoughtful treatment of difficult subjects. Any teen drama will necessarily feature adolescent malaise-but in response to both Seasons 1 and 2, certain critics decried the show’s raw, arguably exploitative approach to topics like suicide and sexual assault.
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Still, for a series that has been criticized since its inception for the way it handles heavy material-turning suicide into a mystery to be solved, layering on trauma after trauma after trauma-it’s a little strange to see this trailer lean so heavily into the show’s sinister side. To be fair, we already know that Season 3 will boast one improvement over Season 2: Hannah Baker is not coming back to haunt Clay (and slow the show’s plot to a crawl) once again. Netflix famously does not release viewership numbers, but it still seems safe to assume that enough people watched 13 Reasons Why Season 2 to justify the show’s renewal. Meanwhile, the usual controversies abounded, as some viewers wondered once more whether the show was too explicit and graphic for teenage viewers.Īs promised last year, Netflix has also become more cavalier about canceling original series that have run their course so far in 2018, that list includes Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (which will get a final batch of episodes premiering next year), Everything Sucks!, and Disjointed.

Critical reception to the teen drama’s sophomore year was not great, and the conversation surrounding the series seemed to die down more quickly this spring than it did when the series debuted last year.

Although a third chapter of Netflix’s dark, buzzy teen soap might have seemed inevitable, it wasn’t entirely a given. Pop open those tape decks and flip the cassette around, because 13 Reasons Why is coming back-again.
