A major criticism of the #MeToo movement, in fact, was that it only elevated survivor accounts from privileged white women. “I’m not the right kind of victim,” she says, highlighting how we tend to dismiss sexual assault stories from non-white folks. She comments that Hannah was a white woman and was still treated as she was, and that, as a black woman, Jessica would be treated even worse. As the sirens get closer, Jess and Justin once again arrive, with Justin declaring, “This is f-ed up, right?” Yes, yes it is.Perhaps the most important part of this episode is when Jessica articulates the reasons why she’s afraid of opening up about her rape. One problem, for some reason, Clay kept Tyler’s huge assault rifle. We’ll figure this out.” Clay is eventually successful, helping Tyler lower the gun just as Tony pulls up. “There’s nothing else I can do,” he says as he points a gun at Clay, who responds, “There is. Tyler gets spooked when Jess and Justin make an appearance, soon followed by sirens. After instructing the others to lock the doors and star inside, Clay meets a fully armed Tyler outside. Instead, she shares the info with Clay who decides that he will try to talk Tyler down. But before he arrives, he gives Mackenzie a heads up, hoping she’ll leave. With a large collection of guns in tow, the troubled teenager heads for the school. As his classmates enjoy the dance and each other, Tyler looks to be preparing for war. He came back with a good attitude and looking to make amends, but that was all out the window after his abuse at the hands of Monty. The school won’t like it, but he has some peace at least. He didn’t mean to let Hannah down and he’s truly sorry. He thinks protocol needs to change, but more importantly he needs to change. Porter breaks down in tears in the stand. It’s so sad to imagine him replaying that scene in his head, editing it to say all the things he wishes he had at the time.
Porter stops her and tells her it wasn’t her fault, men can control themselves and that consent isn’t complicated Bryce should’ve known. In an imagined scenario from the day she came to see him, Mr. He knows he could’ve stopped her from walking out the door. Porter did everything by the Liberty High handbook, he doesn’t agree and thinks there’s more he could’ve done. Though the defense lawyer tries to make out Mr. He tells the courtroom he believes Hannah was raped though he didn’t necessarily think so at the time and - much to the school’s lawyer’s consternation - names Bryce as the student who raped her. Yes, he failed Hannah and yes, that makes him partly to blame for her death, but nobody owns their role in her death as much as Mr. He takes to the stand in this episode for a heartbreaking interrogation. Porter that she was going to kill herself, so he didn’t take action and that is the truth he has to live with. In a nutshell, Hannah didn’t spell it out for Mr. Kevin Porter – the school counselor – is dealing with some serious guilt
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It’s genuinely moving, even if, for an episode, it places the mystery of the polaroids and the trial on the back burner.ġ. Though the idea of their secret romance seemed far-fetched at first, Katherine Langford and Ross Butler sold those scenes of them together from that summer. It’s a lesson learned too late for Zach, but helps illustrate just why Hannah felt as lonely as she did, and why, at the end of that summer, she cut her hair and came back to Liberty a different person. Neither of them told each other how they felt - and that just made everything worse. He’s done keeping things under wraps thinking back, he realizes how much he hurt Hannah when he told her he didn’t want his jock friends to know, even though she was the one who said they should break up at the end of summer. She can’t understand why he kept his time with Hannah a secret, even from her, but he explains that they’ve been keeping things from each other for a long time now, just brushing things under the rug so everything seems fine. And just to wrap up, let’s get back to Zach, who, at home, argues with his mother about his testimony.
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