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Netflix series "Dead girls do not lie": "Shit life forever"

2019-08-27T17:33:36.106Z


The US series "Dead girls do not lie" sparked a debate over the portrayal of suicide. It is much more to learn about broken teens, now proves the third chapter.



With high-speed firearms and explosive belts to the spring ball of high school after a brutal rape in the boys' block: So ended the second season of the controversial Netflix series "Dead girls do not lie". The third does not start hopeful: Eight months after the planned but not executed massacre is the shy Tyler (Devin Druid) fresh back from the mental hospital to the Liberty High School, but for him and many others remains the school routine of horror.

Abuse, Mobbing, Suicide, Murder: "Dead girls do not lie" is not the typical high school series and has been causing a stir since the premiere of 2017. Originally it was about the 16-year-old Hannah, who had cut her wrists. She counted on 13 audio tapes recorded before her death with her classmates. And everyone felt guilty.

Hard cloth. Psychologists, parents and teachers stormed. Above all, they are disturbed by the depicted suicide and are afraid that the series could bring imitators to the scene. In the US, where suicide is the second highest cause of death among teenagers, she was particularly emotionally debated. New studies are supposed to show that the series actually induced young viewers to commit suicide, but the results are not clear.

Netflix responded to the allegations: Shortly before the start of the third season, the streaming service removed the three-minute display of Hannah's suicide. Warnings before and after each episode flanked there already the individual consequences. The third season is no longer about suicide but about murder. Bryce (Justin Prentice), perfidiously acting brat from a rich home, drives after a mass brawl dead in the harbor.

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Third Season "Dead girls do not lie": Now it's about murder

So Bryce is the murder victim, the rapist of Hannah, her friend Jessica (Alisha Boe) and many other girls who got away with the trial in the second season with impunity and then continued to play false games with his friends and enemies. Bryce, whom so many hated about Liberty High. Almost all have a motive - and something to hide.

Even in the 13 episodes of the third season, each episode focuses on another protagonist or another protagonist, reveals secrets and contradictions, targets him or her as a potential culprit - as the first season analogous to Hannah's audio cassettes ever a culprit portrayed her suicide. And even if good and evil seem to be swiftly identified, every single episode evokes suspicion and doubt, exposing this virtuoso staged series to the individual characters and leaving audiences and participants in the dark.

This succeeds through the different time levels with which the third season works again: scenes from the present seamlessly come to mind, the color scheme changes, the picture format also. The present is bathed in dull tones, partly covered with a sepia filter, black bars border the top and bottom of the picture. For the remembered past, the picture opens, the colors shine in strong tones. Is the past - in spite of the terrible happenings - still more colorful than the present, in which further horrible things happen?

There is a third level of time: the police questioning of Ani (Grace Saif), narrator of the third season. She recently moved to the city. Her mother is the caretaker of Bryce Walker's grandfather, a connection she keeps quiet for a long time. These hearings are held in black and white, and Ani's statements often counteract the scenes previously shown. Because even Ani has her secrets. Similar to Hannah in the first season, she is an ambivalent figure, never enjoys the viewer's full sympathy, keeps believing in her credibility - like every character in "Dead Girls Do not Lie" (the original title is "13 Reasons Why "chosen much better, by the way) has two faces, is often the victim of the circumstances or was. There is no black and white.

This series does not make it easy, not the characters, not the viewer. That is her great merit. After the enervatingly long second season about the trial of Hannah's death, the third season succeeds once again in a clever confrontation with social issues of our time - without providing clear answers.

That may really upset, but breaks brilliantly with the lying love affair of previous high school series. "Dead girls do not lie" brings the difficult life world of young people between social demands and social media terror very close. "Shit life forever," Jessica pretty much repeats the common battle cry of days with Hannah. Stuff enough for a fourth season that Netflix has already announced.

Schol. Editors: In a first release we wrote that the third season begins with the rape of Tyler. But this is a review of the events at the end of the second season. We have adapted the passage.

Source: spiegel

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