TV Shows To Watch While Waiting For "Heartstopper" Season 2 — Or If You're Just Looking For A Great LGBTQ+ Series
Heartstopper binge will no doubt be Young Royals, Netflix’s other hit queer youth romance series. This one takes us across the pond again, but this time to Sweden, where a young prince gets caught in some bad PR and is sent to a prestigious boarding school, where he must wrangle with being a literal prince and falling in love.
Sweet, moving, and beautifully made, it has everything that made Heartstopper pop.For influential teen series, there are few as storied as Degrassi, the decades old Canadian show that not only gave birth to the careers of Drake, Nina Dobrev, and Stephen Amell, to name a few, but it still to this day is one of the few teen shows to truly go in depth into some historic LGBTQ+ topics.
Far from perfect, Degrassi should be viewed as an ongoing time capsule, one that learned from its mistakes and grew, while remaining camp.
It no doubt has some problematic tropes. However, tt also had some of the earliest representation of queer and trans characters, like Adam, one of the first trans characters on teen television ever, and the first trans representation many people ever saw on television.Rounding back to international teen hits, SKAM (Shame in Norwegian) is an anthology follows a teen through a year of high school at one of the most well-known schools in Oslo.
