After two seasons of controversy, the shift returns the series to being a YA drama — not a teen suicide drama, and not a drama about a high school shooting.
By pivoting the story to center around a murder mystery, the third season defines itself as being about the murder of series villain Bryce Walker . "Who killed Bryce Walker?" is the question that was asked by show marketing and promotion going into launch, and the mysteryuntil the answer is revealed in the season finale.
Another cliff-hanger of season two was the reveal that Bryce's girlfriend Chloe Rice was pregnant with his baby. A beginning arc of the second season reveals that Chloe never told Bryce, who now attends a nearby private school, about the pregnancy and decides to get an abortion. But she only made up her mind after heeding Mrs. Walker's warning that someone like Bryce should never father a child.
One of the most impactful scenes of the season comes in the penultimate episode when Jess speaks at a school assembly and prompts her fellow students to come out as sexual assault survivors. The many admissions from her peers — both female and male alike, and including more than one main character — put faces to the jarring statistics about sexual assaults. Every 92 seconds an American is sexually assaulted and every nine minutes that victim is a child, according to RAINN .
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