‘Heartstopper’ Season 2 Is Still Euphoric and Blissfully Queer: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu The trouble with most shows about teenagers is that while they can be entertaining, the storylines are often farfetched and absurd.
In media, depictions of teens are adultified so much that the resulting characters are far removed from real-life adolescents’ daily lives and experiences.
With “Heartstopper,” based on the graphic novel and comic of the same name, creator Alice Oseman proves that she recalls the uniqueness and singularity of teenhood.
The U.K.-set Netflix series is one of the purest, most vividly accurate TV depictions of what it means to be a teen. The first season of “Heartstopper” centered on the burgeoning relationship between Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), a lanky, quiet student attending an all-boys school, and the magnetic Nick Nelson (Kit Connor), the captain of the school’s rugby team.
