13 REASONS WHY: Season 2: “Two Girls Kissing”

Name: 13 REASONS WHY: Season 2: “Two Girls Kissing”
Item: 13 REASONS WHY: Season 2: “Two Girls Kissing”
Author: Steph Manthe

Season 2 Episode 2

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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Violence
Sex
Nudity

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Content:

(PaPa, B, HoHo, LLL, V, SS, N)
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong pagan worldview, with immoral behavior like sexual promiscuity and teenage rebelliousness condoned, with some moral elements condemning sexual assault and bullying, plus strong homosexual content includes a lesbian kiss and closeted lesbian girl has two homosexual adoptive fathers;
Foul Language:
34 obscenities (mostly f-words) and six profanities;
Violence:
No depicted violence, but discussion of suicide and self-harm, and girl is rushed away in an ambulance for an unknown reason;
Sex:
Strong and light sexual content includes depicted kiss between a homosexual girl and a heterosexual girl, pictures of kiss are shown a couple times, teenagers try to initiate sex but don’t get very far, teenage girl fondles a teenage boy’s private parts at a dinner table in front of his parents;
Nudity:
Upper male nudity, girl is naked from behind, girl undresses to her bra;
Alcohol Use:
No alcohol use;
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drug use; and,
Miscellaneous Immorality:
Nothing else objectionable;

Episodes: Season Overview

Number	Date	Title	Production	Content
2.1	5/18/2018	“The First Polaroid”		-4
2.2	5/18/2018	“Two Girls Kissing”		-3

More Detail:

“Two Girls Kissing” puts Courtney, the closeted lesbian girl, on the stand to testify about a night she spent with Hannah Baker where they kissed. Why this is important for the trial against the school is left for the viewer to determine, but it makes for silly melodrama. Meanwhile, Jessica (Hannah’s former best friend) is threatened to keep quiet about the fact she was raped by Bryce. Also, Clay and Skye try to fornicate again, but to no avail.

“Two Girls Kissing” is good in the sense that you realize you really don’t need to finish the rest of 13 REASONS WHY. With all creativity out the window in the first two episodes, one has to wonder why the show was ever renewed for Season Two. It’s so unpleasant, ridiculous and self-congratulatory because of the themes it tries to address that it simply becomes silly. This particular episode heavily features an adopted lesbian girl who’s afraid to come out in front of her homosexual fathers, but she ultimately does so while testifying. The episode may be the most pointless of the 13 REASONS WHY episodes so far.

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Quality:

- Content: -3