Anonymous Content producer Joy Gorman Wettels was driving her daughter to school one morning in 2018 when she got word that the Season 2 premiere of “13 Reasons Why,” the Netflix series…
In the show, the fictional Hilde roams the streets independently on her bicycle, trying to find answers to her many questions about what she believes to be the homicide of a woman who lives down the street. She publishes an email newsletter about the matter, and is roundly mocked by her peers at school. When her father, a former reporter deletes the mean and nasty comments off her site, the young girl isn’t upset about the commentary, but at the fact that her father hid it from her.
“Kids want to take back this country; kids want to fight for what’s right,” says Gorman Wettels. “Greta [Thunberg], Emma [Gonzalez], Hilde: There are these little girls who are growing up to be so powerful and so active, and protecting the world they are being raised in. What [television shows] do those girls have to watch?”
“I thought that was a really smart marriage — to put these two women together who were also moms, who were also raising kids that we felt needed that really smart, elevated content that we used to see,” says Gorman Wettels. “We wanted see what that looked like at home.” Gorman Wettels was raised by a single mother in a working class family “who didn’t have the luxury of hiding a lot of reality from me,” she says.
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