Season two of Heartstopper hasn’t even been out every week and I’ve watched it extra occasions than I might prefer to admit.
The present first got here onto the scene in 2022 and immediately took the world by storm – and there is a clear purpose why.
Telling the story of two younger boys discovering love and in addition discovering who they’re and their sexuality, the present is a lot greater than your common love story.
As Imogen says in her now iconic line, I am an ally. However God do I want a sequence like this had come out after I was rather a lot youthful.
I noticed TikTok clips of the brand new season on Saturday morning and determined to lastly watch the present.
By Saturday night, I had completed it. By Sunday night, I had caught up on all 4 volumes of the books – allowing for, I went to an Eire match and did a shift in work in between this… it is that addictive.
It opens your eyes to only how tough it’s for youngsters coming to phrases with their sexuality.
The world is a a lot better place after we perceive and settle for one another, and Heartstopper is paving the way in which for that change.
Credit score: NetflixI grew up watching Glee and I’m grateful I did as a result of it helped me acquire a a lot better understanding of the LGBTQ+ group.
Watching a programme that showcased homosexual relationships in the identical manner as straight relationships was a pivotal second in my very own character growth and the way I seen the world.
Whereas Glee has not aged as all of us hoped it might – and is unquestionably not a present I might suggest now if somebody needed to study extra about homosexual relationships – it paved the way in which for a sequence like Heartstopper.
The Netflix unique exhibits how various and exquisite the LGBTQ+ group is, and portrays younger, homosexual relationships in a manner that has by no means been achieved earlier than.
Primarily based off a graphic novel (which you also needs to learn), the relationships we see in Heartstopper are nothing however fully regular. There’s nothing however pure love on the root of it.
From Charlie and Nick and Darcy and Tara to Elle and Tao and Issac’s journeys, the present depicts regular teenage lives and regular teenage points – they simply occur to be members of this group.
The present offers with powerful subject material too, being outed, homophobia and transphobia, the battle of coming to phrases together with your sexuality – however how that is approached is among the greatest writing I’ve seen in a very long time.
Younger individuals are utilizing Nick’s popping out scene as a manner of popping out themselves. The scene is from the top of season one when Package Connor’s character reveals to his mum, performed by Olivia Coleman, that he’s extra than simply mates with Charlie, performed by Joe Locke.
The heartwarming second exhibits the mum accepting her son with open arms, even bringing actual tears to Olivia’s eyes.
Displaying this sort of queer illustration is precisely what the world wants proper now. It is making folks really feel seen, even those that are a lot older than the characters within the sequence.
Reveals like this are few and much between, and whereas there should not be a query mark round together with illustration like this – I for one am delighted this one exists.