Review of Let the Dead Bury the Dead

This season was better than the first one. I'm a huge book nerd and usually don't like adaptations because they tend to ruin everything, but this is so much better in a visual form that I'm kind of glad they got rid of Jay Asher. This was one of the best seasons yet, because like it's predecessors it tackles uncomfortable things that people usually don't like to talk about. Americans think that everything is black and white, and that's why so many people like the first season of the show - because you have the good guy and the bad guys. But from season two we saw that there's two sides to every story. Here, we see Bryce actually growing up and taking responsibility for his actions - and the show points out very clearly that even if he does realize that what he's done is wrong, it still doesn't justify it, but at least he can move on with his life trying to do good from now on forward. He doesn't get to, because he's murdered but it shows that redemption is possible and everybody can change, and that's a good message to spread. I've lived in the States for almost seven years now, and I've noticed this pattern of two-dimensionality with a lot of my friends and neighbors who are born and raised in America, and I feel that that's why they don't like the way this show is going. And the thing Americans fear above else is confrontations, and this show makes them confront the things that a lot of them choose not to see happening around them. I really liked this season and I'm really looking forward to see what they're going to do in the next one. The storyline of Montgomery de la Cruz was also very impactful and needed to be said, because there are still a lot of closeted gay guys in the States who can't express who they really are because of parents, community in which they live and because America is still the number one country where people believe in made up gods and anfels