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‘HEARTSTOPPER’ SEASON 2 REVIEW: A PROFOUNDLY GEO, AGONIZG CHAPTER OF NETFLIX’S VAL GAY ROM-COM
And although ’s absolutely lovely to see a film for kids embrace explic gay romance, the queerns of Nick Bno and Troy Quane’s film, adapted om the graphic novel by ND Stevenson, go further and extends to the tle character. But nsir this: let gay art flop. In a sea of gay ntent that aims to be excellent, “First Kill” has the bravery to be pellgly terrible, and for that we mt pay our rpects.
Charmg voice work om a mostly queer st of voice actors — cludg Sean Hay, Matt Rogers, Wanda Syk, and Patti Harrison — boosted the show’s lighthearted tacklg of stutnal homophobia, and ma for a seri that had real potential before got Netflix’s axe. She-Ra and the “He-Man” anchise have always had a strong mpy appeal that ma at least gay-adjacent, but ND Stevenson’s acclaimed reboot of the anchise for Netflix rehgly dropped the -adjacent part pletely. Soapy teen stori are so much better when they’re gay, and “Young Royals” is one of the gayt and soapit.
A marked improvement om the origal “The Ultimatum, ” which featured a st of nttants so toxic that went past entertag and to ncerng terrory, the “Queer Love” eratn stars a group of gay women and non-bary leads on the verge of marriage as they are tasked wh mglg wh other upl, and choose to pair up wh someone outsi their origal pairg to live wh for three weeks. Also, mercifully, this show is NOT hosted by Nick and Vansa Lachey, but stead by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, one of the biggt ws for the gays Netflix uld have ever provid .