Naturally, Clay being Clay, he takes her advice to the extreme when Tyler turns up at the school dance armed with an assault rifle prepared to get retaliation for his assault. “But no matter how many reasons there might be why, there are always more why not,” Mrs. After Hannah’s memorial service, her mother gives Clay a note she found that Hannah wrote listing the reasons not to kill herself, coming up just short. Meanwhile, for all of Clay’s internal convincing that he’s turned a new leaf, he’s still back to his meddling ways. (They get it on, which is, in one sense, closure for Jessica after her rape.) They never got closure after he skipped town and they don’t quite get it the way you’d expect now, either. It’s unclear if he’s high at the school dance at the season’s end, but he’s confronted with another old demon: his ex, Jessica. Meanwhile, Justin is living with the Jensens and tells Clay he thinks he’s happy, but we quickly learn that happiness might just be because he’s still secretly shooting up heroin (through his toes, he’s that desperate not to get caught). But he is still merely bait in a shark tank, having cost the baseball team their season for vandalizing their field with the word “RAPISTS.” One of them, Monty, ultimately attacks Tyler in a school bathroom and does as he’s been branded, brutally raping Tyler with a broken mop handle. After being sent away to a behavioral camp to manage his anger, Tyler Down returns to Liberty rehabilitated and trying to make amends. Not a Lot of Reasons to Watch 13 Reasons Why Season TwoĪlas, a few characters are tragically moving backward instead of forward. Everyone is letting go: Hannah’s mom has closed the pharmacy and is moving to New York City, where Hannah once dreamed she would live Clay’s parents are adopting Justin after taking him in earlier in the season Jessica and Alex Standall are an item again even Bryce is transferring to poison some other school. “I love you and I let you go,” he tells her ghost. Clay Jensen, who’s been experiencing lucid visions of Hannah all season, gives a speech at that service and finally moves on.
Hannah’s parents hold a church memorial service for their daughter, which they hadn’t done in the five months since her death because of the church’s history of shaming suicide. The rest of the finale unravels over three days in April, with everyone searching for closure. Foley - poor, now a drug addict, and with no responsible parents to speak of - is punished for his circumstances and given six months’ probation. In the end, the judge proves him right: Walker, still a minor, is given just three months’ probation. He rapes and humiliates women - not to mention manipulates all the men in his life - because he’s been groomed since birth to take what he believes is his with little to no consequence. Other women who never got their day in court are there too, given the space to share their stories even if it’s only a fantasy.īut the narrative of Bryce Walker has always been this: He’s a spoiled brat with two terribly cavalier parents and enough power and access to make him invincible.
#WILL THERE BE A 13 REASONS WHY SEASON 2 TRIAL#
The finale begins with Walker having already been convicted - luckily, the show spares us another drawn-out trial - and Davis giving her victim-impact statement at his sentencing. (In Foley’s case, for being an accessory to rape.) Unbeknownst to Walker, with the Bakers’ trial slipping out of their favor, Davis went to the police and reported her assault for the first time, as did Foley. But at that same verdict reading, outside on the courtroom steps, both Bryce Walker and Justin Foley were arrested for the rape of Jessica Davis. “Bye” jumps ahead one month after Hannah Baker’s parents lose their lawsuit against Liberty High School, a case that attempted to prove the school was negligent in preventing their daughter’s suicide. There’s a rapist on trial, another graphic rape, a funeral, an adoption, a school formal, (consensual) locker-room sex, and an attempted mass school shooting. But after the show’s 70-minute finale, you’ll likely need many more to process what just happened.
Don’t act surprised.īy now you’ve had more than 13 hours to trudge through the 13 new episodes of 1 3 Reasons Why’s second season. Spoilers ahead for 13 Reasons Why season two.