As the
kids are subpoenaed to testify about Hannah’s suicide, Bryce tries to reach out
to Justin and the kids contemplate telling the truth. To me, none of that is relevant. Instead, my mind is drawn to that one
moment.
Hannah happens upon a small party at Bryce’s house. There are a few people in the hot tub. They convince Hannah to jump in. After a while, Hannah is left in the hot tub alone. As she sits there, trying to relax, Bryce jumps in. As Bryce starts to make his move, Hannah tries to get out, but Bryce won’t let her. Instead, he turns her around, and he rapes her. That’s right, Bryce raped Hannah. As he had his way with her, she died inside. Hannah says there are two kinds of death. One is the natural way your body runs out. The other is to die a little bit at a time until it is too late. After everything that had happened, after the entire school slut shamed her, after the boys in the school took a piece of her innocence at a time, Hannah lost her virginity being raped by the guy everyone treated like a god. If that was all that happened in the episode, I would have turned it off and never watched the last one. Oddly, it reminds me of the gospel. If Jesus dying on the cross was the end of the story, then there is no hope. But He rose, and all is not lost. In the show, Hannah did not rise from the dead. Instead, Clay found justice. See, he hid a tape recorder in his backpack. Since Marcus had set him up to get caught with weed in his backpack before, Clay used that to his advantage. He went to Bryce’s house under the pretense of buying weed. Then, he confronted Bryce about the rape, got beat up, and then got the confession. When you think that is the best part, it gets better. Courtney tells her fathers the truth. Sheri turns herself in to the cops. Jessica dumps out all her alcohol and then takes a very hot and long shower to clean all the guilt off. It begins to feel like there is going to be a happy ending, until someone decides to follow Hannah’s example.
Hannah happens upon a small party at Bryce’s house. There are a few people in the hot tub. They convince Hannah to jump in. After a while, Hannah is left in the hot tub alone. As she sits there, trying to relax, Bryce jumps in. As Bryce starts to make his move, Hannah tries to get out, but Bryce won’t let her. Instead, he turns her around, and he rapes her. That’s right, Bryce raped Hannah. As he had his way with her, she died inside. Hannah says there are two kinds of death. One is the natural way your body runs out. The other is to die a little bit at a time until it is too late. After everything that had happened, after the entire school slut shamed her, after the boys in the school took a piece of her innocence at a time, Hannah lost her virginity being raped by the guy everyone treated like a god. If that was all that happened in the episode, I would have turned it off and never watched the last one. Oddly, it reminds me of the gospel. If Jesus dying on the cross was the end of the story, then there is no hope. But He rose, and all is not lost. In the show, Hannah did not rise from the dead. Instead, Clay found justice. See, he hid a tape recorder in his backpack. Since Marcus had set him up to get caught with weed in his backpack before, Clay used that to his advantage. He went to Bryce’s house under the pretense of buying weed. Then, he confronted Bryce about the rape, got beat up, and then got the confession. When you think that is the best part, it gets better. Courtney tells her fathers the truth. Sheri turns herself in to the cops. Jessica dumps out all her alcohol and then takes a very hot and long shower to clean all the guilt off. It begins to feel like there is going to be a happy ending, until someone decides to follow Hannah’s example.
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