When Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” debuted in 2017, the show precipitated a flurry of concerned reviews. Mental health strategist Mark Henick called it “dangerous,” and the New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino wrote that it made “a smarmy spectacle of suicide.”

Counselors and psychologists warned that rather than shedding light on real teenage issues, as the show’s creators said it did, “13 Reasons Why” glorified suicide.

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