Behind the Scenes of Netflix’s Call to Alter ‘13 Reasons Why’ Episode

Netflix's decision to cut a graphic scene from '13 Reasons Why' comes after months of internal discussion about the show and a spike in teen suicides

When Brian Yorkey was adapting Jay Asher’s book for the Netflix Inc. TV show “13 Reasons Why”—about a teen girl who commits suicide and the aftermath—he took creative liberty with the source material, changing the depiction of protagonist Hannah Baker’s death from an overdose of pills to a graphic wrist-slitting.

That decision created more than two years of controversy for Netflix, as mental-health advocates criticized the portrayal and studies suggested the show could have been a factor in a spike in teen suicides in the...

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