![]() As with all art, your mileage may vary.)Īt least the Scooby Gang has finally made some real progress in their investigation. (This categorization isn’t necessarily a bad thing, of course. The only reason that it hasn’t also fallen under that umbrella is that it doesn’t really look like its peers there’s no dour color-grading, and its cast is made up of teenagers. At this point, 13 Reasons Why feels like a rival to shows popularly dubbed “misery porn,” like The Handmaid’s Tale or The Walking Dead. The rest of the episode gets dark enough that I’m worried as to how this show will end. This means it doesn’t do anything to help the case, though Tony does his part to set the cosmic scales of balance right by visiting Sara, whose testimony made Hannah out to be a toxic bully, and telling her that Hannah really did regret what she’d done. Of course, this act of kindness doesn’t make it into Tony’s testimony, as it would implicate him in a third assault and get him sent to prison. He ducks into the movie theater and begs for her help - and she agrees, hiding him and telling the police that she didn’t see him go by. It’s also down to Hannah that he avoids being arrested. While they’re walking down the street, Lucas (who has both eyes intact at this point) curses at them, calling them “faggots.” When he refuses to back down, Tony handily beats Lucas to the point that he loses the use of one of his eyes, and bystanders begin calling the police. They’re a cute couple, though their honeymoon period doesn’t last long. It’s only after Hannah eggs him on that Tony asks Ryan out. (They even go to get manicures together.) They’d confided in each other: Hannah about her experiences at her last school, expressing regret at having helped ostracize Sara in order to fit in with her new friends, and Tony about his sexual orientation, coming to Hannah for encouragement and support. The friendship between Tony and Hannah seems sweet. ![]() Though there aren’t any real bombshells in his testimony - the defense twists what he says to make it seem like Hannah was a bully, while the Bakers’s lawyer makes him seem unreliable in order to mitigate it - the flashbacks that accompany it tell their own story. All the narrative progress that’s been made seems to come at a cost, and it’s merely setting up for the final leg of the season - which, if I had to guess, I’d say is going to get ugly. ![]() For one thing, nothing particularly good happens in it, and for another, it doesn’t stand on its own. “Smile, Bitches!” is an unpleasant episode on a couple of levels.
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