In the time that’s passed, Tyler has completed his behavioral guidance program, and seems to be doing a lot better. The fact that it opens the episode instead of ending it should clue viewers into the fact that there’s something brewing, and what awaits is flat-out awful. Each of the female characters in the show takes a turn speaking about an incident of sexual assault or abuse, which feels especially affecting in light of how the judge gives Bryce a light sentence so as not to “do any more damage.” Justin, of course, is given twice as much time, as well as being held in juvenile detention given the fact that his mother has skipped town.īut, for all that, it’s a good moment in a show that’s had a hard time in balancing pathos with wringing emotion out of its audience, it’s immediately undermined by what comes after it.

(So much for that, though in this case, the injustice of it is arguably the point.) At the hearing, Jess speaks about her rape in a sequence that turns into a broader comment on sexual violence against women. A month after the events of the previous episode, Bryce is sentenced to three months of probation. More than anything else, it’s just a strange episode, as it begins with what feels like an ending. There’s too much in this episode - particularly in the way that it’s all been framed - that’s been ripped straight from the news in a way that doesn’t quite work, at least not for my money. If “The Box of Polaroids” was perhaps too insular, “Bye” takes the opposite tack and goes way too wide.

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