‘Heartstopper’ Season 2 Review: TV’s Sweetest Teen Romance Still Soars

This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.Last summer, audiences got a sweet, feel-good queer romance in Heartstopper, the story of recently outed teenager Charlie (Joe Locke) who enters secondary school — that’s high school, for us Americans — and meets rugby player Nick (Kit Connor), developing a friendship that quickly morphs into a romance.

Season 1 ended on a hopeful note, with Charlie and Nick forging ahead with their relationship even though most of Nick’s friends and family don’t know that he’s bisexual.

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