We have finished the new series now.
We enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed season 1, which weren’t sure if we would as season 2 very much sets up what will hopefully be covered in season 3.
You can see everyone had both grown as actors, and as their characters, some fantastic acting, particularly Joe and Kit, they were flawless. They play Nick and Charlie so well you feel as though you’re intruding as you watch. You could tell the hair ruffle in episode one was unexpected as Kit used his own voice, rather than his Nick voice.
It must have hurt Kit with all the “I’m Bi actually” scenes after he was forced to out himself. Theres an interview where he is shown Nick coming out to his Mum and he is very clearly trying very hard not to cry. He suffered awful innapropriate sexualisation after season1, hopefully it hasn’t been as bad after this season.
We’ve had some really interesting talks about heartstopper after this series, my friendship group all enjoyed it, but it also reminded us that our childhood and adolescence were taken away from us by shame and self-hatred caused by section 28 and other homophobic laws, that not only took away our chance of having a largely care free happy childhood, but for many in the LGBTQ+ community have led to poor mental health in adulthood. One interesting thing, I’m a rugby player, I now play for an inclusive team rather than being pro, after the first series we had a huge influx of men wanting to join, I say men, some were only 17/18, the same has happened again. So many queer men are pushed away from sport by straight men and boys and the
Again it’s nice to see children being portrayed as actual children, so many shows featuring children are portrayed in a completely unrealistic manner, even down to buying a £1 present, rather than the typical whacking out £100. Alice has done a wonderful job in creating realistic teenage characters.
Once again Tao is a wonderful representation of a man completely devoid of toxic masculinity, something we are very much lacking in real life, but something we are very rarely shown on the screen. Its also so nice to see mixed race couples where neither party are white, we don’t see that enough.
I very much sympathise with Nick, I also have a husband who has a much smaller build than me so he can steal all of my clothes to never return them, but I can’t get revenge and do the same to him.
I’ve watched a few episodes with my son (he is only 8, so not sure if I’ll show him all of episode 8),
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I'd recommend reading them and the library is a good option because it starts to get expensive if you buy them all!
I'm 44 years old, he could be my son.
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I want his cuddles. My daughter was horrified when I said oh he had a nice bum doesn’t he (scene in Paris when they’re on the bed).
