Although Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why tells a very contained story, the cast is open to a season 2.
If you’ve already binged 13 Reasons Why on Netflix (or read the book by Jay Asher), you know how the story ends. In fact, if you know anything about the story at all, it’s how it ends: With Hannah Baker committing suicide.
The 13-part series is structured around the 13 cassette tapes she left behind that shine a spotlight on the people who she claimed brought her to a place where she felt she had no other option than to kill herself.
We go through all the tapes with her friend Clay (Dylan Minnette), the story told in flashbacks while in present day, Clay and the others struggle to comprehend what happened.
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You would assume that there is no more story to tell after Hannah is finished telling hers, and maybe that’s the way it should be. Yet by the end of 13 Reasons Why, the audience is left with as many questions as answers, and has become so invested in the characters Hannah left behind that it’s frustrating not knowing what happens next.
But don’t worry, because according to the cast and executive producer Selena Gomez, the series isn’t necessarily and one-and-done deal.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the premiere, Gomez was asked about whether there could be a season 2, and said, “I would get in trouble for saying something, but I hope so.”
Creator Bryan Yorkey went one step further, outright saying, “We’re not done with these characters. We love them and I want to know what happens next. We absolutely talked about what could happen next. I would love to learn more about who these kids are, why they did what they did and also, Hannah made 13 tapes and told us 13 very specific stories, but there’s a lot she didn’t and I want to know more about that. I want to know what her secrets are.”
Katherine Langford, who plays Hannah, agrees that there’s “more story to tell,” saying in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that, “there are so many cliffhangers at the end of the season. At the end of the season, I had to sit back. I didn’t think about what happens next. It’s more of this feeling like, ‘Oh my God, that’s the story that needed to be told.'”
Langford also expresses an interest in being involved with a second season, which would be interesting, as it assumes Hannah still has a part to play in these people’s lives, and echoes Yorkey’s sentiment that Hannah herself had more secrets, too.