Season 2 of '13 Reasons Why' disappoints fans

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The second series of "13 Reasons Why" was released on May 18, but fans found it disappointing.

Based on the best-selling books by Jay Asher in America, "13 Reasons Why" an American mystery teen drama that follows high school teenager, Clay Jensen and his friend, Hannah Baker a girl who kills herself, then leaves behind a box of cassette tapes with Clay’s name on it explaining why.

Dylan Minnette (L), Selena Gomez (M), and Katherine Langford (R) /VCG Photo

The first season arrived in 2017 and was spoken highly of as it raised people's awareness of issues including rape, bullying, and self-harm.

A viewer takes season 1 as a powerful show. /Picture via IMDb

Chinese fans give 8.3 high grades to season 1. /Picture via Douban

The second series also speaks to rape in general and covers sexual assault, addiction and school shootings in details. In addition, a civil lawsuit is added against the school for failing to protect Hannah Baker who took her own life in season 1.

Such issues like rape, suicide, bullying and high-school sexism are extremely serious. There needs to be a better vehicle. "As drama, this is pointless, cumbersome, baggy, badly written, ponderous and boring," according to The Guardian.

Fans also found the show to not entertaining and did not to watch it.

A fan says season 2 is a letdown. /Picture from IMDb

The grade is lower than season one in China. /Picture from Douban

A Chinese fan says the thirteenth episode is redundant. /Picture from Douban

People generally think season 2 was unnecessary, giving plotlines that were never introduced in the first season, which makes the audience feel like filler for lackluster episodes that fall tragically short from what was a groundbreaking first season.

Meanwhile, it makes viewers feel season 2 is irrelevant, Hannah Baker’s story was told in the season 1 and everyone knew everything they had to know.

It is pointless for viewers to see some more flashbacks that were not shown in the season 1 as such flashbacks were, on the one hand, not important enough to push the stories, on the other, they did not exist in the original storyline of the show.

Since the 1980's, American TV shows have been a way for Chinese people to learn about pop culture and get entertained at the same time.

"Man from Atlantis," the first American TV show in China in the 1980's. /VCG Photo

Main viewers of American TV shows in China are English speakers and those who are more interested in pop culture.

If you are one who watches popular shows yourself like "The Big Bang Theory," "Game of Thrones" or "Gossip Girl," then you make for great conversation topics with a Chinese audience.