Heartstopper - Netflix

[MrsBooks]

Binged it, loved it, binged it again to Shazam all the music!!

Anyone else watched it?

Gay, geeky teen falls in love with supposedly straight, popular, rugby playing lad. Just very sweet high school drama.

It's not their story though - I expect it is a much bigger thing in their lives but we're following Charlie and Nick.

Perhaps Tao's Mum is being so enthusiastic because she is trying to make sure that she is positive about it all and going slightly over the top.

I guess Tao’s mum knows Elle really well as an individual and also knows that her son has fancied/loved Elle for ages. She likes Elle and wants Tao to be happy.

I'm going to have to resubscribe to Netflix soon.

Have they changed Nick's mum? Or is the women he's talking to someone completely different?

Thats his aunt

It is his mum. Olivia Coleman couldn’t fit the filming into her schedule 😢.

No, it isn’t.

I also read it's his aunt

It looks like it will be an emotional season! I didn't enjoy season 1 as much as 2 (I watched season one about 6 times but season two only once) so I hope I enjoy S3 as much as S1

I've just put Heartstopper on for a rewatch and immediately got an email saying that there was a new post on this thread. Feel like MN is stalking me

I'm looking forward to S3. I haven't read the graphic novel past the plot of S2, so I'm interested to see what happens.

OK I don’t know for sure about the woman in the trailer - maybe they brought the aunt in to get round the missing Olivia Coleman issue. But she is definitely not going to be in it. Story here

I have heard that little brother Oliver from the books is going to be Charlie’s cousin in the series.

I am relieved it’s his aunt (having now read the news on that) - It would have been a bit jarring continuity wise to replace his mum. Although we are going to have Christmas - I am not sure they can leave her out altogether. It will be like The Duchess of Hastings not being at Colin Bridgerton’s wedding.

The DC say that there are important scenes with Nick and his mum coming and are disappointed they’re doing those with his aunt instead, they only know Olivia Coleman from this and confused and cross that she could have other priorities 😆

Yes I was convinced they had replaced the Mum as I recognise the scene from the books. Nick’s mum is quite involved for this bit in the books.

An unfinished version was leaked online and I have seen the whole series - without any spoilers - Hayley Attwell plays his aunt and she has all the conversations his Mum did in the comics.

Oliver appears as a cousin (Netflix already released a picture of him).

Series 3 is out now

I binged season 3 yesterday. I really enjoyed the Nick and Charlie storyline but not so much the rest.

It's darker than the previous seasons, about Charlie's eating disorder and both boys' issues.

They're both desperate to get into each others pants but it's very sweet as they talk about their feelings and what they're comfortable with.

I wasn't impressed by some of the other storylines. Lots of trans and non binary nonsense, bit concerning showing it all as positive rather than a serious issue.

I much preferred it to season 2.
I really liked the not wanting oxbridge storyline.
The non binary storyline was far better than the one on Sex education, felt like current teen experimentation, even if it's all nonsense to me.
And the main story between Charlie and Nick was great.

Mostly I loved all the bits of the teachers flirting. They're a lovely couple.

I thought they handled the trans stuff ok. It would be complicated to be in that situation and navigating relationships.

I think the radio interview thing was unlikely in that scenario but representative of trans people being asked about those issues when it is irrelevant at the time which probably does happen.

I liked it more than season 2 too. I thought the story moved on well, it was reasonably faithful to the books. Not too graphic. Routing for Sahir and Imogen - either way - but I hope they work something out next season.

Two episodes in and I’m mostly enjoying it, but I’m getting distracted by noticing actors in their early 20s playing 16 year olds.

Yeah. Time has moved a lot more slowly on screen than off. I read an interview with the actor who plays Nick talking about how the actors have gone from school kids to adults while their characters are still so young - the general life changes, but also stuff like having to get his chest waxed for the role.

I loved it. Much preferred it to season 2. Nick and Charlie are so sweet.

I’m binging it atm - in my 50s with an lgbt adult child!

We’ve finally watched all of it.

We really enjoyed it, they managed to cover a significant amount of time without it being rushed.

Episode 4 was very good and done very well, I like how they included the lack of access to appropriate NHS care without it being overly in your face. Touching on how the family members of someone with a mental health condition can suffer and fail to put themselves first was very well covered with Nick and Tori.

Once again loving that we have a straight male character with zero toxic masculine traits, also nice to see Nick shown as being one of the girls, while Charlie is one of the lads. Also very good to see it reinforced again that sport is also for gay people.

As always Nick and Charlie’s bedrooms are far too tidy to realistically belong to teenagers, also Tao and his vintage camera, vintage!!!! I was also concerned by the lack of gravy. How does Nick not notice that three members of his family are in marvel? “Oh god” being the response to lots of plans is something I very much feel too.

I saw the below that is very true, and felt after the first two series as well

“I’m 38 but i realise we never got to grieve the lost teenage years where at most times we were just fighting to survive every day. As queer youth we never got what our other peers got and it's okay to grieve that.
At times I'm angry we were robbed all those first times and had to figure out a lot in our twenties and thirties. Being gay is so special and now I am so happy I am but it was bloody hard. I find myself pausing at times now just to look back and I honestly can't believe how far I've come.
Watching this season just shows how hard we have it as queer youth and that no matter what age we are now we still have that small scared child buried down deep who just needed a hug. I know I speak for a lot of us that when we watch this show it brings out stuff in us that we sometimes find hard to face, the pain, the regrets, the constant need for approval when we were young and that we didn't have what Nick and Charlie have.
I guess I just needed to share that it's okay for us to grieve a youth I guess we never had and it's okay to comfort our inner child. We have to be kinder to ourselves.”

Yes. I spent my teenage years reading Mary Renault and EM Forster and Armistead Maupin, and learning support the queer-coded women in detective novels and children's books, and am all so glad that kids these days just get to be more normal and mainstream, even if they're still it's prejudice. And I like the storyline with Mr Farouk and Mr Ajayi and how they can see the changes in society.