10 Awful TV Shows With Incredible First Episodes

When 13 Reasons Why premiered back in 2017, it took Netflix by storm. Some praised the show for its sensitive handling of suicide, while others criticised it for its unflinching and potentially damaging portrayal of the subject.

Regardless of which side you fall on, nobody can deny that the first episode makes you genuinely care about Hannah Baker and all the reasons why she decided to take her own life.

So, how on earth do you keep a show like this going for more than one season? The premise of the entire thing is that a dead girl left behind thirteen tapes, which have all already been listened to. What next?

Well, it seems as though the writers didn’t know how to answer that either. The show started off as a tragic tale about what the pressures of high school can do to a young person and ended with its main character going insane and seeing the ghosts of dead classmates everywhere he goes.

It looks as though you only need one reason why not to watch the show. The scripts.