Netflix's new series has everyone (including us at Refinery29) talking about its depictions of sexual assault, bullying, and depression, which it does through heavy use of flashbacks. That's because Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford), a high school junior who commits suicide before the events of the first episode, leaves behind tapes explaining the reasons for taking her own life — which, in the show, are told through flashbacks of the months leading up to her death.