Summary: A funeral service is finally held for Hannah. Bryce gets away with 3 months probation and Justin gets 6. Clay's family adopts Justin. Tyler returns from his program a changed and better man. Monty sodomizes Tyler with a broomstick. Everyone goes to the school dance to get past everything. Tyler arrives with intent to shoot up the school and the police are called. Clay talks to Tyler and talks him out of killing people.
The Good: The funeral service was a good way to say farewell to Hannah forever. It was a good way to give Clay some closure and was a pretty solid scene, especially compared to some of the other scenes. I also liked the reasons why not scene. Olivia and Clay's farewell was good as well and didn't feel too hamfisted. The Bad: This was not a good episode at all and was a bad finale. The most egregious mistake here was the Tyler rape scene. This show has consistently shown an inability to hold itself back and here it shows a vicious, unpleasing scene to us without holding anything back with the sole motivation to disgust us and make us feel "sympathy". That's really unnecessary and it's going several steps over the line. It wasn't alright when "Game of Thrones" did it, so I'm certainly not giving it a pass here. The rest of Tyler's story is absolutely awful too. His transformation was so ridiculous that I actually laughed when I first saw him, thinking it was a joke. It's so ridiculous to think that Tyler changed so abruptly to the point where he isn't even the same character anymore. I mean the change in him reminds me of that episode of "SpongeBob" where SpongeBob decides to transform into a "normal" guy (hi, how are ya). The fact that I can compare this drama which takes itself seriously to a cartoon like "SpongeBob" is a total embarrassment. Worse yet is his decision to shoot up the school. Everything suggested that Tyler would just kill himself, especially seeing how he transformed to a more forgiving person. But the show has no consistency and can't even keep Tyler consistent to his transformation by just deciding to have him attempt to shoot up the school. And how do they stop him? Clay goes out to talk to him. What? This is such a stupid development, and Clay is a massive fool for doing this. The worst part is the fact that the show suggests that if somebody is threatening to shoot up a school, the way to fix it is to talk to them. No! If this was realistic, Clay would walk out to talk to Tyler and would immediately get shot and killed. The fact that his plan actually worked was so stupid. Worse yet was that awful cliff-hanger. Am I supposed to feel scared for Clay since he will now get in trouble with cops? Well I really don't care because all the evidence will point to it being Tyler, so I'm not at all scared. Also, what kind of closure does the scene give to the season? Absolutely none. It's badly written and gives me no sense of satisfaction now that the season is over, and I have no reason to want to check out season 3. Honestly I most definitely won't be watching it anyways. This wouldn't be a massive problem for the episode if the rest of the episode provided closure and a satisfying ending. But it didn't at all, and many of the other scenes were bad. Bryce's storyline ended really badly. After everything he gets three months probation, so we don't even get the satisfaction of knowing he got what he deserved, making me question why this season even existed if it wasn't going to be about Bryce getting what he deserved. The storyline was fixated around Jessica in court finally speaking out about her rape but the scene wasn't even that good. Of course Jessica has been crying about the rape in just about every episode too which makes the scene feel less special as it was just more of the same that we have seen, only this time Jessica is talking to officials. The Clay and Justin storyline wasn't good either. As I stated last episode, I don't care for their relationship so the scene where Justin got adopted completely fell flat of any kind of emotion. Furthermore, Justin is also apparently still on drugs and still in love with Jessica, showing that in the end he didn't change at all. That's bad for a character who essentially went through a redemptive arc this season. So much of this episode was unsatisfying. The polaroids were taken by Nina apparently which is easily the most unsatisfying thing ever, and doesn't feel the least bit earned. A lot of storyline just dead-ended and went nowhere. Alex's distress with being broken lead nowhere. Zach being angry went nowhere. Monty attacking everyone went nowhere. Olivia wanting to change the school went nowhere as she is just going to New York now. there are so many more storylines too that I can't be bothered to list, but it's really bad that there are so many loose ends here. One last thing I didn't like was Clay crying when "The Night We Met" played. That scene felt forced to get some emotion out and didn't work at all. Realistically, I would love scenes like these, but they would have to be subtle and carried by the actor in the scene. Unfortunately, this scene was over-dramatized and that ruined every little bit of emotion that the scene could have had. I'll say it again, this show has no restraint. The Unknown: Where will Justin's continued drug abuse lead? What will come of him and Jessica still being in love? A love triangle? As if I didn't need more reasons to stop watching this show. What happens to Clay now that he has the gun and Tyler is gone? Who will take the fall for it? What will become of Chloe being pregnant? Best Moment: The funeral service was the best part. Character of the Episode: Clay. Conclusion: This was a bad finale with very little to satisfy me and some of the worst writing and lack of restraint that the season has seen. This did nothing to make me want to keep watching. I wish this show ended after the first season instead of becoming insufferable like this. The season as a whole sucked. Looking back at it, nothing was accomplished, the writing was worse than before and so many storylines just fizzled out without any sort of resolution. There is a special place in hell for seasons of television as badly executed as this one. Score: 35
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