Just finished the entire series in less than 24 hours. Really riveting stuff.
1) I want to hear so much more about Jenn. She seemed so involved -- in the car when they were hiding and re-hiding and cleaning shovels, picking up Adnan after the supposed murder, hanging out with Jay and Adnan at her house afterwords (or beforehand?). Who is to say that she isn't the third call that Adnan received while at Cathy's?
2) I wonder if there wasn't a whole lot of other shit going on with Adnan and Jay. They weren't close friends, but they more or less killed/buried a mutual friend. I wonder if there wasn't something much bigger -- and much more sinister -- at work. My first instinct is drug-related, but I guess it could be information-related instead.
3) My impression is that it was Adnan. Through and through. The dude is super smart and probably a sociopath. He had a couple of tells, in my opinion, like always supplementing every statement that could be construed as suspect with a carefully crafted reversal. CLASSIC sociopathic method (if I do say so myself): e.g.
“I don’t think you’ll ever have 100 percent or any type of certainty about it. The only person in the world who can have that is me… and, for what it’s worth, whoever did it.”
4) The girlfriends thing at the beginning totally weirds me out. Adnan buys Stephanie a gift -- small, but a gift -- for her birthday, gives it to her in 1st Period/photography/whatever, and then immediately calls Jay, her boyfriend, to ask if he got her something. That is so fucking manipulative. And, if you follow one of the narratives, seems like Adnan did a lot of manipulating Jay -- even to the point of getting him to help him bury the body. Perhaps the story that Jay told Chris and Josh -- the one where Adnan drove the body to the pool hall -- is Jay's way of making him seem less weak, less manipulatable. Why wasn't Adnan throwing away the clothes and getting rid of the shovels? Jay's story never explains why he has to do all the post-burying dirty work and why he is always dropping off Adnan everywhere.
5) This is me totally over-reaching, but a person like Jay -- someone that constantly and consistently inserts little lies here and there -- is totally insecure and dependent on other, stronger or more dynamic characters for their self-worth. I can totally imagine Adnan being that person, perhaps even to the point of Adnan honestly saying that they weren't that close of friends, and Jay insisting that they were closer and better friends. Nothing makes friends like agreeing to bury a body.
*to add to this, somebody, in some interview, implied that it was probably Jay's idea to bury Hae in Leaken Park. Somebody else also said that was a place Adnan and Hae used to hook up. Just like the Best buy. It seems like much of the story seemed to take place in locations where Adnan used to take girls. I can see Adnan crafting the whole story, manipulating Jay to get his help, and then everything backfiring when Jay cracked (cracked not in police custody in interrogation, but rather in the days and weeks following the discovery of the body/case upgrade to homicide).
6) I am fascinated by Mr. S. Hilarious. I can almost totally believe that he was just doing a little break-time boozing and streaking and stumbled upon the body. Or, maybe Adnan or somebody paid him to find the body. Who the hell knows?
Ok, sorry to ramble. That's what I get for listening to it all in a single day.