This whole chapter ends up revealing more about Clay than it does Hannah, because he’s so quick to believe the worst of her, and so slow to grasp what female victims go through. As a privileged white athlete used to getting whatever he wants, that made him furious. Bryce pursued Hannah and they seemed to have an uneasy friendship for a while, until she gently rejected his advances at The Clubhouse and put him in the friend zone. Did she have a secret relationship with Bryce, as he claims during his testimony in episode 11? The picture plays on a lot of the uncertainty we – and Clay – have developed about her after all these new revelations in court. She’s smiling in the picture and wearing someone’s letterman jacket. The end of episode ten reveals a Polaroid of Hannah at The Clubhouse, the secret storage room where some Liberty High jocks drank, smoked, and sexually assaulted girls. This doesn’t actually end up changing our view of Hannah in any significant way, but it initially promises to do so. Sometime early in the season one timeline, Hannah, Clay, Jeff (RIP), Jeff’s girlfriend, Sherri and Ryan all did Molly together, and Clay is now haunted by a moment during the comedown where Hannah said: “What’s the point of it all? Do you ever think, I can’t do it any more? Like, I want to die?” Honestly, the revelation that Hannah and Clay did drugs together makes a whole lot of sense, and adds some realistic teenage messiness to a relationship that sometimes felt thin last season. It’s not that Hannah was lying in her tape, but her version of events is clearly colored by her hurt feelings. It also comes out that the entire trio kissed each other during a game of Never Have I Ever, and so when Alex then started dating Jessica, it felt to Hannah like a direct rejection of her. Jessica continues to feel guilty for weeks, while Alex is the one telling her to get over it (“fuck girl code,” he specifically says). Hannah turns her down, and makes it clear she’s jealous. Jessica clearly feels bad, not wanting to rub her relationship in Hannah’s face, and offers to get coffee with Hannah after the movie. As Hannah described it, Alex and Jessica started dating and froze her out – there’s one particular scene where Hannah rings up her friends while they’re on a date at the Crestmont, and Jessica is straight-up bitchy to Hannah, who just tries to be nice.īut in episode two, we see Jessica’s version of that same exchange, and it’s completely different. One of the earliest “Reasons” centers on Hannah’s short-lived friendship with Jessica and Alex, and how their cute hangouts over hot chocolate went sour. Jessica’s side of the friendship triangle So… zero points for logic, but 1000 points for Hannah and Zach, who in an alternate universe in my head are still together and happy and extremely alive!Ģ. Their relationship ends because Zach admits he doesn’t want his friends to know about her, which clearly crushes Hannah and makes a lot more sense as a reason for him to be on the tapes than anything we heard last season. Ghost Hannah tries to explain away the tape discrepancy by saying she wanted to keep her and Zach’s relationship private, but why put him on the tapes at all in that case? They only begin to bond after Zach apologizes to her for what happened before, and she accepts his apology, so her dredging that up for the tapes feels false. This whole thing was such a significant retcon that it’s hard to completely swallow.
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