8 TV Shows That Should've Stopped At Season One

8. 13 Reasons Why

Sometimes a show is clearly only meant to be one season long, with a well-defined beginning, middle and end. But then the show is a smash hit and so the powers that be renew it for a second season anyway. This is exactly what happened to the teen drama 13 Reasons Why.

The first season had some controversial things to say about the nature of teenage suicide, to say the least. It followed high schooler Clay Jensen as he listens to thirteen tapes that his friend Hannah Baker left behind before killing herself.

By the end of the first series, all thirteen tapes had been listened to and both Hannah and Clay’s stories were brought to a bittersweet close. But the show somehow ran for three more seasons before it finally ended for good.

Some of the “highlights” of episodes after series one include a classmate getting murdered, another one being sodomised with a broom handle and Clay hallucinating the ghost of both Hannah Baker and of the previously mentioned dead classmate.

The show ended up giving us forty-nine reasons why not to watch it.