Netflix just recently turned Jay Asher’s #1 New York Times Best Seller book, “13 Reasons Why,” into an original show. With 13 episodes in the first season, each one is a different side of a tape where Hannah Baker, a high school student, tells her peers the stories that led up to her suicide.

The show begins when Clay Jensen, one of Hannah’s friends from high school, receives the shoebox of the 13 cassette tapes a few weeks after Hannah’s death. The box contains instructions to listen to the tapes and then pass the box on to whoever is next on the list, and Clay is one of the last to hear them.

The show switches between past and present as we listen alongside Clay to the events, stories and people Hannah describes. All of the characters have a deep complexity that is revealed as you dive deeper into the unraveling stories and secrets, forming a sort of understanding for each one.

The show embodies the convoluted high school experience full of broken friendships, misunderstandings, and heartaches in a very accurate manner that leaves you very connected with the show. Each action, whether a person knows it or not, has a lasting effect on everyone, and “13 Reasons Why” depicts that perfectly. Each traumatic and heart wrenching event is shown with little to no reservation, making it a little difficult to watch at times, but the raw and unrestricted nature of these is what makes the show resonate.

Overall, “13 Reasons Why” encompasses the vulnerability and complicatedness of Hannah and all high school relationships between friends, loved ones, teachers, and parents so expertly while also captivating the audience through mystery and tragedy.