How 13 Reasons Why Twists the ‘Dead Girl’ Trope by Giving Her Control of the Story

TV is overwhelmed with dead people. It's particularly and exhaustively obsessed with dead or brutalized women -- they're victims on procedurals, but they're also remarkably common on prestige crime mysteries. The Ur-victim of the genre feels like Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks, a young woman whose placidly, icily dead face ... More