What Happened to Jeff Atkins in 13 Reasons Why

April 04, 2022 Post a Comment

Jeff Atkins in thirteen reasons Why "deserved better" - his decease in the Netflix show that broke our hearts

Everyone who has seen xiii Reasons Why is proverb the same affair most our man Jeff's death (Alert: Spoilers)

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If yous've just finished thirteen Reasons Why we'll give you a infinitesimal.

Netflix'south harrowing and heartbreaking tale of how Hannah Bakery came to kill herself is a real sucker punch to the gut.

While you're putting yourself back together there's one thing we really, really want to talk well-nigh. Jeff Atkins.

The hero nosotros didn't ask for, just all desperately needed. The man who is only so incredibly sweet and the best human being.

Weirdly, the loveable jock really doesn't appear in the book. Brandon Larracuente, 22, who plays Jeff, really met with Dylan Minnette , who plays Clay, to mankind out his character and create a backstory.

In that location'southward a lot of love around for the end result - he's even sparked a string of memes. Everyone is proverb the same affair "Jeff deserved meliorate."

There's plenty of reasons why. Really 13.

Jeff is Clay's friend and a great guy (

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1. He was Clay's friend

He was Clay'south merely real friend apart from Hannah.

2. He was Dirt'due south love motorcoach

While Clay schooled him in, well, schoolhouse, Jeff schooled him in the art of dear. Clay fifty-fifty confesses to Hannah the times they become to hang out have stemmed from Jeff.

three. He gave usa THAT dance

First there was the bet. Clay and Jeff had a bet on based off his grades, which ended with Dirt going to the dance and that wonderfully beautiful scene of Hannah dancing with Clay.

four. Seriously he had Clay'southward back

Second, the party where everything goes wrong. Earlier everything hits the fan Jeff pushes Clay into staying and talking to Hannah. That'south a homo who's got his mate's dorsum. In the volume Clay is shy, he accidentally bumps into Hannah. In the show Jeff is our hero, he pushes Clay.

We all need a Jeff.

5. He's a leader not a follower

At the dance Justin says to Jeff "There'southward vodka in the red shit if you lot want," but Jeff turns him downwardly. Jeff doesn't follow similar a sheep, he sticks to his (adept) guns. The moment is even more important when you call back about how Jeff dies.

6. The beverage driving

Jeff was definitely not drunk when he drove. We aren't only maxim that. Larracuente antiseptic the effect in his interview with Thrillist .

"Jeff was not drunk when he drove," he said. "We didn't want to portray Jeff as a drunk commuter, and yous should never take the chance of drinking and driving."

7. Information technology wasn't his fault!

In fact Sheri knocks over the terminate sign, and it'southward implied this results in Jeff and the one-time man crashing into i some other.

8. He was all of united states

Jeff pushing Hannah and Clay together, telling him to man up and speak to her. THAT WAS US. Jeff was our champion encouraging our ii favourites to get together. If Jeff didn't, who would?

9. He's been bullied

In the aforementioned interview Larracuente says he feels Jeff stands upwards for the little people because he was probably bullied.

10. His death devastated Clay and had more impact than anyone realised

Jeff AND Dirt deserved so much more. They were friends. Jeff in the book is really the unnamed student that died in a crash and had little impact on Clay, it was more about Hannah and Sheri (Jenny in the book) and the consequences of her actions. Clay in the series is hit hard by Jeff's death.

11. He

12. Deserved

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JEFF DESERVES Amend (In case you missed it)

No wonder we're all broken and shouting the same thing.

The worst thing is there were warning signs . Nosotros could have protected our broken hearts.

WAIT, what...

Yep, sorry, if you spotted these signs then you would have been on the edge of your seat waiting to see when Jeff would dice, rather than broken and crying (though we still wept).

Jeff was there at the dance, simply not in the nowadays day scenes (

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Those flashbacks

Jeff is but in the flashbacks, we never, ever, see him in nowadays day. If you lot noticed this before his death then you lot would have seen it coming. If not, information technology's a deplorable, lamentable realisation.

The Principal gave u.s. a clue

When the Principal and Mr Porter are chatting in the office, at that place'due south a small clue - he says the school now has to bargain with 'two deaths'.

Even if you lot read the book in that location was no clue that Jeff was the unnamed student who died either.

If, like u.s.a., you clocked it then the next few moments were a crushing realisation there was some other harrowing moment to come up before Hannah's final tape. Poor Jeff.

If you're not ok maxim bye to Jeff, proficient news. He's in Netflix movie Bright with Will Smith, which is out soon-ish so watch out for that.