(courtesy IMP Awards)
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You may recall, moments before Heartstopper season 2 concludes, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) solidify their feelings for each other in a deeply vulnerable conversation. As honest as their heart-to-heart is, it seems there are things still left unsaid.“I love your hair. I love your eyes. I love …” Nick says to Charlie, his words fading into an unfinished sentence. Moments later, Charlie has to leave, but as he walks home with his phone in hand, he types a message to Nick: “I love you.” Charlie’s thumb hovers over the “send” button as the episode ends.
Now series creator and writer Alice Oseman is dishing about what to expect from the next installment of Heartstopper. “Season 2 ended with Nick beginning to understand the extent of Charlie’s mental health issues, and it’s this that will drive the story through season 3,” Oseman told Netflix. “While Heartstopper will always celebrate the joyful and point towards hope, I’m really excited that we are allowing the tone of the show to mature alongside our beloved characters growing up. Mental health, sex, university ambitions, and more: Nick, Charlie, and the Heartstopper teens are getting older, learning more about themselves and each other, and experiencing new desires, new fears, and new joys as they approach adulthood.” (courtesy and (c) Netflix Tudum)
I love the Heartstopper graphic novels by Alice Oseman.
I adore the streaming series adapted from them (season 1 and season 2 reviews).
And I take great joy in seeing queer love represented in so many joyful and wonderful ways.
Heartstopper is an absolute wonder and a delight, and having another season to lose myself in and to have the world reminded that love really is love (and not a just a cutely meaningful slogan) is just the best thing.
Bring on 3 October when Heartstopper season 3 drops on Netflix.