"13 REASONS WHY" MAKES A SMARMY SPECTACLE OF SUICIDE
May 11, 2017
Alright this show looked bad, this convinces me its probably worse than I thought.
As someone who enjoys Television and Movies this was a fun read for me. I like a good bit of the Netflix Originals (Master Of None, Love, and Black Mirror to name a few) but when I saw the Trailer for "13 Reasons Why" I could already tell I would not be scrolling through Netflix to find it one day.
Jia Tolentino uses a casual yet disgusted diction in her piece "'13 Reasons Why' Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide." Tolentino displays the Netflix Original in a very harsh light, using words like grotesque and indulgent. The piece explains and reviews the series as a whole but hammers it for its almost glorification of Suicide. Tolentino doesn't hold back at shaming plot points and its obvious manipulation of the audience.
Its clear Tolentino does not like the show as she takes many chances to talk about its multiple flaws and "crimes." She both flat-out states her disgust for the show, and one could infer based on how she describes and reviews it. Her purpose is to either convince her audience not to watch or support the show, or to send a message to the show producers and executives that its representation of Mental Health issues is horrible.
Tolentino does this fairly well too. By describing the show as a whole she can dive into what parts specifically make it bad. She also compares the show to the book, and talks about how they differ and why the book is much better at not making suicide seem like the only option.
She uses both pathos and logos to get her audience to sympathize and understand her argument. The show is bad, for many reasons. She discusses the many things that make it bad and brings you over to her side fairly quickly into the piece through her description of the show.
Jia Tolentino uses a casual yet disgusted diction in her piece "'13 Reasons Why' Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide." Tolentino displays the Netflix Original in a very harsh light, using words like grotesque and indulgent. The piece explains and reviews the series as a whole but hammers it for its almost glorification of Suicide. Tolentino doesn't hold back at shaming plot points and its obvious manipulation of the audience.
Its clear Tolentino does not like the show as she takes many chances to talk about its multiple flaws and "crimes." She both flat-out states her disgust for the show, and one could infer based on how she describes and reviews it. Her purpose is to either convince her audience not to watch or support the show, or to send a message to the show producers and executives that its representation of Mental Health issues is horrible.
Tolentino does this fairly well too. By describing the show as a whole she can dive into what parts specifically make it bad. She also compares the show to the book, and talks about how they differ and why the book is much better at not making suicide seem like the only option.
She uses both pathos and logos to get her audience to sympathize and understand her argument. The show is bad, for many reasons. She discusses the many things that make it bad and brings you over to her side fairly quickly into the piece through her description of the show.