--- title: Parents TV Council Calls on Netflix to Pull '13 Reasons Why' description: The watchdog group issued a statement asking for Netflix to remove the popular series '13 Reasons Why,' now in its second season. canonical: https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-23T18:50:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:06.041Z og:title: Parents TV Council Calls on Netflix to Pull 13 Reasons Why og:description: The Parents Television Council thinks the show is a "ticking time bomb" og:url: https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78cb69705806079a/6988c07c97cdff1f746b0008/darkness-visible-in-13-reasons-why.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Darkness-visible-in-13-Reasons-Why og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Parents TV Council Calls on Netflix to Pull 13 Reasons Why twitter:description: The Parents Television Council thinks the show is a "ticking time bomb" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78cb69705806079a/6988c07c97cdff1f746b0008/darkness-visible-in-13-reasons-why.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Parents Television Council Calls on Netflix to Pull _13 Reasons Why_ > Sponsored content. 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Netfilx  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 23, 2018 6:50 PM UTC The Parents Television Council [asked this week](http://w2.parentstv.org/Main/News/Detail.aspx?docID=3428) for Netflix to pull the popular series [_13 Reasons Why_](http://time.com/5283278/netflix-cancels-13-reasons-why-premiere-santa-fe-texas-high-school-shooting/)_,_ now in its second season on the streaming platform. _13 Reasons Why_ is based on a book by Jay Asher that details the death by suicide of a fictional teen, Hannah Baker, and the impact it has on her high school classmates. “Netflix has delivered a ticking time bomb to teens and children who watch _13 Reasons Why_,'” said group president Tim Winter in a statement, calling the second season “even worse” than expected due to certain graphic elements. The PTC calls itself a “non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment.” “We would have liked to have 13 reasons for hope and redemption following the graphic suicide of the lead character, but rather than providing a path forward, the season only provides cause for despondency,” Winter continued. For the second season, which was released May 18, Netflix [worked to preempt](http://time.com/5278376/13-reasons-why-season-two-netflix/) this kind of critique of the content of the show by providing a number of online resources for mental health, suicide, sexual assault and bullying, and by prefacing the episodes with PSAs warning about the graphic nature of the show and its [triggering potential](http://time.com/4880712/netflix-13-reasons-why-suicide-internet-search/). But the Parents Television Council has not been satisfied with these changes, stating that the show is by nature problematic because it is targeted to vulnerable teens. They are warning parents to be “alert and on guard” after teens watch the show. In the past, the PTC has issued statements supporting YouTube’s release of extended parental controls, urging for limited advertising of gun violence on TV and, in 2004, memorably rallied against and ushered through complaints to the FCC about Justin Timberlake’s botched [Super Bowl XXXVIII](http://time.com/5106284/justin-timberlake-remembers-janet-jackson-super-bowl-wardrobe-malfunction/) performance with Janet Jackson. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/"},"headline":"Parents Television Council Calls on Netflix to Pull 13 Reasons Why","datePublished":"2018-05-23T18:50:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:06.041Z","description":"\"The season only provides cause for despondency\"","url":"https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78cb69705806079a/6988c07c97cdff1f746b0008/darkness-visible-in-13-reasons-why.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78cb69705806079a/6988c07c97cdff1f746b0008/darkness-visible-in-13-reasons-why.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Darkness-visible-in-13-Reasons-Why","caption":"Minnette and Langford play theater co-workers whose time runs short","creditText":"Netfilx","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5288896/parents-television-council-13-reasons-why/","name":"Parents Television Council Calls on Netflix to Pull 13 Reasons Why"}}]}] ```