'13 Reasons Why' Renewed for Fourth & Final Season; Trailer Drops

Netflix's controversial and breakout teen drama, 13 Reasons Why is coming back for one more season and, one last time, but that will be later. For now, the 13 episodes of the third season are all set to be released on the streaming platform on August 23.

According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, the season four of the series — which does not yet have a return date or episode count — will feature the core cast's graduation from high school. Season three, sources say, will not feature a suicide. That decision arrives after Netflix last month decided to alter the controversial season one finale that featured the graphic suicide of the show's central character, Hannah (played by breakout Katherine Langford). The nearly two-minute scene was edited and effectively scrubbed some two years after the show launched to strong reviews and almost immediate backlash for glorifying suicide.

The renewal continues to stretch the controversial series well beyond Jay Asher's book of the same name that inspired season one. The series, from showrunner Brian Yorkey, was renewed for a surprise second season following its breakout first run after the drama was originally developed as a one-off limited series. 13 Reasons Why was one of multiple series to continue its run after breaking through the cluttered scripted landscape that is expected to top 500 series in 2019.

The trailer reveals the big mystery that will surround season three: Bryce Walker (Prentice) appears to be the football player who went missing. The characters are all shown at his funeral before the question is posed: Who killed Bryce Walker?

Watch the trailer for season three below.