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Girls is a special show. It's special because the characters are flawed. It's not a matter of 'Oh, I'm so beautiful but I'm terrible at relationships' or 'I'm such a workaholic and I have trouble balancing work with my personal life'. There's no one-off episodes where someone sleeps with someone's ex-boyfriend but then apologises and they're besties again. Problems aren't solved by a saviour swooping in at the last minute. These characters have realistic flaws. Friendships are broken, addictions are managed, mistakes are made, repeatedly, people say and do the wrong things. Things don't work out how you want them to. It is an authentic look at life. Which is the reason people will either love it or hate it. It is also why the finale is the way it is. The second last episode saw the four girls reunite, in a less than ideal way. Hannah turns up to Shoshanna's apartment, only to see everyone else there, celebrating Shoshann...

The way people were talking about 13 Reasons Why all over the internet, I felt like I had to watch it. I saw the first episode and I knew I had to watch it. Hooking you in from the very beginning, 13 Reasons Why will make you want to call in sick to work just so you can binge-watch all the episodes. The series follows Clay Jensen, a high school student who has received a set of tapes from his classmate and friend, Hannah Baker. Hannah recently committed suicide, and on the tapes are the 13 reasons why. Each reason is a person Hannah knew, someone that hurt her in some way, and they each get their own tape. Hannah's plan for the tapes is for each person to hear them and pass them on to the next person. When they arrive on Clay's doorstep he struggles with his emotions as he listens to each tape. He feels the need to confront each person when he hears their tape, to question them, to make sense of it all, to try and make things right somehow. 13 Reasons Why is so captiv...