Hannah's listing of Reasons is deeply unfair to most of the people involved and I think the show recognizes that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
But it doesn't lean hard enough on it because it's trying to keep Hannah completely sympathetic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @catvalente
I read it as roughly ascending in blame--not quite linearly but using the build of the narrative to raise the gravity of what's happening...
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... so Bryce is the peak of this whole trajectory of building... brutalisations.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect
But it ultimately means Bryce is never really shown the same way as the others, because that might ruin the twist
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Replying to @catvalente @arthur_affect
I never thought of it as a twist, tbh. It played as an... as yet unspoken horror Hannah was avoiding? A negative space Bryce was sure 2 fill
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect
I think it’s played as a twist though. It’s obfuscated and written like a reveal.
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Replying to @catvalente @Hal_Duncan
It's a minor thing but I'm annoyed at how involved Bryce is in everyone else's tape, to the point where it reads like "hints" to a "reveal"
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I mean yeah ok alpha guys can be like that in social groups but Bryce is literally the reason Justin sends out the photo
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And Alex makes the Hot List in an effort to impress Bryce
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Like the show makes Bryce into a human avatar of the concept of toxic masculinity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan
But then refuses to focus on him for more than a few minutes here and there
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