Netflix’s controversial series about teen suicide, ’13 Reasons Why, ‘ is picked up for a second season, and it will have a new narrator.
Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why has yet another reason for getting noticed.
The series, which controversially centers on the suicide of a teenager, has been renewed for a second season.
The story is about Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) , who has left behind cassette tapes explaining 13 reasons why she took her life.
But all of the tapes were played in Season 1. So what’s in store for Season 2? Netflix tweeted out an interview with executive producer Brian Yorkey that reveals a few details about the new episodes, which are expected to hit the streaming service in 2018.
We know that the new season will likely start a few months after the first season’s finale, will get a new narrator (though Hannah will still appear on the show) and instead of tapes, will use « a different sort of analog technology, » Yorkey says.
Here are a few of the questions that Season 2 will answer, according to Yorkey: « Is Tyler going to do something? What’s going to happen to Alex? Will Bryce be brought to justice? »
Season 1 had 13 episodes and was executive produced by Selena Gomez, who teased last week that « maybe » there would be another season of the series.
She also told the Associated Press that she was proud of the project.
« We stayed very true to the book, » Gomez said. « What Jay Asher created was a beautifully tragic, complicated yet suspenseful story and I think that’s what we wanted to do. We wanted to do it justice and, yeah, (the backlash is) going to come no matter what. It’s not an easy subject to talk about, but I’m very fortunate with how it’s doing. »
Psychologists, educators and parents have widely criticized 13 Reasons’ potential to be interpreted as glamorizing suicide, prompted Netflix to add warnings to episodes.
