It should be side one really, not tape one. I have read the book and watched the series with my daughter. I am glad I did so as it did bring up many issues.
I was quite annoyed after reading the book as well as I felt that Hannah did not have a reason to end her like and ruin that of those who loved her by doing so, but rather it was 13 excuses why. One of the episodes is more upsetting for me, but I will post about that when we come to it. I had read the book because a patient I was seeing before lockdown used it as inspiration to try to kill themselves. Reading the book was harrowing, but the series is different, and while not as good as the book in some ways, it is much better when it comes to showing the devastation that suicide leaves on those left behind. The patient was annoyed that Netflix cut the suicide scene itself, and when I used the series to show how suicide harms the survivors, then their case if they go through with it, their siblings and parent, they stopped watching it.
Anyway, my son has talked about watching this before, and the decision of my wife and I was that he has to watch it with one of us and is not allowed to watch it by himself, a message reinforced by the show itself at the beginning. We were not able to watch all of it as we started to watch it late in the day, but it was nice to watch something with him again. We finished watching Star Wars Rebels on the weekend and he is not keen on watching the rest of Star Wars with me. He is aware that this means that we have to talk about what happened in the episodes. Hopefully, it will not be too traumatic for him to do so.
