From the best series to the worst ever .. The resounding fall of the fourth season of "13 reasons"

Netflix recently offered the fourth and final season of the series "13 Reasons Why", which, in evaluating the "Rotten Tomato Site", received only 18% in a resounding fall after the first season of it got an average of 78%, what are the reasons This retreat? And how has one of the best teen series in the last decade turned into the worst?

The novel is the secret of success

The first season of the series was a quote from a famous novel with the same name, which was supposed to be made into a movie, then the project was changed to a short series of only 13 episodes.

The novel - which was from the best-selling - was characterized by intense coherence in the plot, although it deals with multiple stories linked only by the bullying of the heroine Hannah Baker, and the most important thing is the audacity to present the events.

The events of the first season revolved around the teenage girl Baker who decided to commit suicide after being bullied and attacked in high school, but before that she recorded 13 "cassette tapes" in each of them a reason / or a person who pushed her to this decision.

It ended with the exposure and knowledge of those responsible for harming Baker, whether psychologically or physically, the same conclusion of the first season.

After the great success of this season, the series was renewed for a second season, and here was the beginning of the end, this season did not find any literary origin to rely on, and his writers had to use the characters from the first season in a new plot for the second season.

But what happened was a kind of intellectual bankruptcy, instead they presented the same events of the first season but from the viewpoint of the rest of the characters, which was the beginning of a series of slopes.

In the third season, after the book had to give up the story of Hana once and for all because they could not benefit from it more than that, they started a new attempt to re-introduce another side of the same story through the price of Price and Walker.

Thus, the series began to fumble, as there is nothing that combines the seasons except the characters, but without any clear context, but each season can be separated from others without the need for any reference to the previous seasons.

All problems in 10 episodes

Unlike previous seasons, season 4 makers chose to present it in just 10 episodes rather than 13, during which they attempted to garner all the problems and teen "Themes" that could be presented in a movie or TV business.

We find the season clearly divided into a set of separate films, each episode can be completely cut from its context, transforming the series from teenage drama into an adolescent horror series with a clear and retro look, and another episode that talked about addiction, and another that took us to the theme of graduation parties and the playfulness of students , And one to high school shootings.

Thus the viewer was forced to try to find a thread that combines all these themes and issues all the time to no avail, and the brutal end came in the tenth episode, where one of the main characters was eliminated because it was time to impart some melodrama to the events, and blackmail the feelings and tears of the viewers.

Does performance save a failed season?

The acting performance is considered one of the most important pillars of the success of the series, especially the first season.

Acting has declined with the second and third seasons but has returned strongly in the fourth, we have seen the best performance of Dylan Minette in the role of Clay Jensen, the hero of the series, and Branden Flynn in the role of Justin (his adopted brother) who suffers from addiction, as they had the burden of season drama this time completely, Unlike previous seasons, the episodes were distributed almost equally to the characters.

In addition to the fluctuation of the season between themes and different topics, which added to the actors the burden of continuing in one psychological or emotional state, we find that the episode of the Prom Party forced them to appear in a fun appearance, unlike the previous episode directly during which they suffered a major crisis, and the next episode of the party directly, which is the last They had to offer very sad scenes.

This ups and downs of feelings made the actors perform the best possible acting performances, but was this able to save the season? In fact, no, because if this actor was not really behind a convincing drama of the viewers, they would not be able to interact with it in an acceptable manner, and then it became a wasted effort by talented actors, we are expected to see them in the future with better works.