Can a TV show really raise the suicide rate?

A recent study suggests that the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which seems to have been written in part to challenge the culture of silence and stigma surrounding suicide, may have actually played a part in raising the suicide rate in the month following the release of the series online. Continue reading Can a TV show really raise the suicide rate?

Review: Netflix’s Maniac Offers Rewards for Those Who Can Handle the Weirdness

What’s best about the show is watching the characters try so hard to be ideals of themselves and embody big ideas, only to be pulled back to earth by the cold, unsexy grip of reality. Continue reading Review: Netflix’s Maniac Offers Rewards for Those Who Can Handle the Weirdness