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HEARTSTOPPER IS JT AS SWOON-WORTHY SEASON 2NETFLIX’S H SERI IS BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF PUPPY LOVE. BY RICHARD LAWSONAUGT 2, 2023PHOTO: SAMUEL DORE/NETFLIXSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEHEARTSTOPPER MIGHT BE THE KISSIT SHOW ON TV. IN THE SEND SEASON OF THE ADOLCENT ROMANCE SERI, PREMIERG ON NETFLIX ON AUGT 3, JT ABOUT EVERY OTHER SCENE CLUS SOME SORT OF SMOOCH: A SNOG OF AFFECTN, A PECK OF WORRY, A FACE-SUCKG THAT PUNCTUAT A GRAND TONE. THGS NEVER GO PAST MAKG OUT, AS THGS MIGHT FOR REAL TEENAGERS THE REAL WORLD. BUT THE NTEXT OF CREATOR ALICE OSEMAN’S SWOONG FANTASY (ADAPTED OM OSEMAN’S OWN GRAPHIC NOVEL), KISSG IS THE FG ACT OF LIFE. HEARTSTOPPER IS, IF NOTHG ELSE, UNRELENTGLY CUTE. THAT’S LARGELY WHY THE FIRST SEASON WAS SUCH A NAWAY PHENOMENON. SURE, THERE HAD BEEN LOVE, SIMON (A MOVIE) AND LOVE, VICTOR (A TV SHOW) BEFORE , BUT HEARTSTOPPER WAS OTHERWISE SOMETHG OF A PNEER THE FILMED QUEER-YA GENRE, TELLG THE SWEET STORY OF TWO BOYS—OUT GAY CHARLIE (JOE LOCKE) AND CLOSETED BI NICK (K CONNOR)—FALLG HEAD OVER LIPS FOR ONE ANOTHER LENGTHY TAIL. THOUGH DARK THGS SOMETIM TERPT THE PICTURE, HEARTSTOPPER IS MOSTLY A GENERO VISN OF WHAT MIGHT BE TO TUMBLE TO A KD OF TABOO LOVE WH SAFE ABANDON. THE SEND SEASON PICKS UP A MONTH OR SO AFTER THE EVENTS OF SEASON ONE, WH CHARLIE AND NICK THE HAPPY THRO OF THE HONEYMOON PHASE BUT STILL KEEPG ALL A SECRET. THIS N OF EPISOS CHIEFLY FOC ON NICK’S STGGLE TO E OUT TO HIS FAY AND TO HIS GBY MAT AT THE SUBURBAN ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE AND CHARLIE MATRICULATE. IT’S A WELL-ARTICULATED PROCS, SENSIVE AND PATIENT—EVEN WHEN SEEMS THAT NICK AND CHARLIE REALLY HAVE NOTHG TO HI. THE BOYS AREN’T VERY SUBTLE, YOU SEE. EACH IS NSTANTLY STARG GOONY-EYED AT THE OTHER. THEY HANG OUT ALL THE TIME, NICK SENTIALLY ABANDONG HIS JOCK IENDS FOR JOE’S BURGEONG TERIE OF LOVABLE QUEER BTI. THERE’S LBIAN UPLE TARA (CORNA BROWN) AND DARCY (KIZZY EDGELL—ONE OF THE GREAT NAM ALL OF TELEVISN); THERE’S MAYBE GAY, MAYBE SOMETHG ELSE BOOKWORM ISAAC (TOBIE DONOVAN); AND THERE’S CHARLIE’S TE BFFS, ARTSY STRAIGHT BOY TAO (WILLIAM GAO) AND ELLE (YASM FNEY), A TRANS GIRL WHO HAS A BIG OL’ CSH ON TAO. IT’S A MERRY BAND OF MISFS WHO, THE SHOW’S PORTRAURE, AREN’T REALLY MISFS AT ALL. THEY ARE THE ARNT CENTER OF THE SHOW, SUPPORTIVE AND OPEN-MD AND PROVIDG ALL THE HAVEN A KID LIKE NICK MIGHT EVER NEED. BUT BEE A TV SERI NEEDS NFLICT, NICK WRTL AND WRTL, TAKG ONE NERVO STEP FORWARD AND THEN JUMPG BACK TWO. THE PROCS ULD BEE REPETIVE HAD HEARSTOPPER NOT TRODUCED A GENI TERPTN. SEVERAL EPISOS OF THIS SEASON TAKE PLACE DURG A POST-EXAMS SCHOOL TRIP TO PARIS, PROVIDG AN IAL STAGE FOR HEIGHTENED FEELG AND BOLD ACTN. CRACKS EMERGE THE SHOW’S EXTANT RELATNSHIPS, BUT NONE THAT ARE FATAL. ANOTHER UPLE FALLY GETS TOGETHER THE CY OF LIGHT, DURG A CHARGED TERLU AT THE LOUVRE. FROM THE LOOKS OF , THE SHOW ACTUALLY FILMED AT THAT STORIED MM, BEE THE SERI IS A GLOBAL JUGGERNT THAT HAS, I SUPPOSE, EARNED SUCH SPECIAL PRIVILEGE. HEARTSTOPPER’S BIGNS IS AT TIM TOO KEENLY FELT SEASON TWO. THE KIDS KNOW YOU’RE WATCHG NOW, AND TH EVERY SIGNIFINT MOMENT IS TREATED AS A SEISMIC EVENT. EACH MA CHARACTER IS ALLOWED A B OF MSS, BUT OTHERWISE THEY ARE FASHNED TO RIGHTEO AVATARS FOR THE FANS WHO MIGHT MOST CLOSELY INTIFY WH THEM. ANY ANCILLARY ANTAGONISTS ARE MORALLY REBED A MANNER THAT I’M SURE WILL SATISFY VIEWERS, BUT N ALSO E ACROSS AS SMUG. HEARTSTOPPER’S RE CREW HAVE BEE NEAT ENPSULATNS OF NTEMPORARY YA’S MOST JEALOLY HELD VALUE: MA CHARACTERS N NEVER BE TOO BAD, NNOT TRANSGRS TOO MUCH, LT THEY LOSE THE SACRED TALISMAN OF RELATABLE SUPERRY. IF YOU’RE LOOKG FOR ETHIL PLITN AND AMBIVALENT SHADG, SEEK OUT A DIFFERENT SHOW. CHARLIE AND NICK ARE SO CENT AND HUMBLE AND NCERNED WH PROPRIETY THAT SEX IS BARELY MENTNED ON THE SERI. WHEN IS, BOTH BOYS—WHO ARE, AS A REMR, MADLY FATUATED 16-YEAR-OLDS—CHASTELY CI THAT THEY JT AREN’T READY FOR SUCH THGS. SURE, THAT’S HOW PLENTY OF REAL KIDS APPROACH THE MATTERS. BUT WATCHG THE SHOW, ONE GETS THE SNEAKG SPICN THAT S AVERSN TO SEX IS G NOT OM A PLACE OF LM UNRSTANDG, BUT OM A PRIGGISH SISTENCE THAT S DREAMY, KISSY SPELL NOT BE DISPTED BY THE SQUISHY, MECHANIL, CIDLY UN-CUTE FACT OF WHAT OFTEN AFTER MAKG OUT. MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSEX NEED NOT BE THE PURVIEW OF A SHOW AIMED AT TEENAGERS, BUT WHEN SO MUCH OF HEARTSTOPPER IS NSUMED BY ROMANCE—PRETTY MUCH EVERY STORYLE VOLV A UPLE, SAVE FOR ONE VIATN TO ASEXUALY AND AROMANTICISM—THE SERI HAS TO WORK AWFULLY HARD TO KEEP THAT BLOGIL REALY OUT OF THE PICTURE. IN THAT GLARG OMISSN, THE SHOW FEELS MORALISTIC, AS IF IS RIGIDLY SISTG THAT NICE KIDS, LIKE THE ON SO STRENUOLY BEG SOLD TO , DON’T DO—OR EVEN THK ABOUT—THAT KD OF THG. THAT ASI, HEARTSTOPPER IS NVCG. ITS LH SOUNDSPE OF WISTFUL GAY-ADJACENT POP SONGS SUABLY PLEMENTS S HERO’ ACH AND PALPATNS, WHICH ARE DRAWN REFUL CREMENTS. CHARLIE’S WE’RE--NO-HURRY APPROACH TO NICK’S G OUT IS HANDLED WH TE EMPATHY AND SIGHT. THE SHOW WORKS A PLOT ABOUT AN EATG DISORR GRADUAL PHAS, MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT A SIAR AWARENS MIGHT EMERGE REAL LIFE. HEARTSTOPPER IS, QUE WNGLY, NOT A SHOW ABOUT PANIC OR RASHNS OR OTHER DRAMATIC SWGS. ITS PACG IS LIBERATE, S EMOTNS AWFULLY MEASURED FOR A SHOW ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCG FS OF PASSN. WHICH IS A GREAT CRED TO LOCKE AND CONNOR, TWO NEWLY VERY FAMO KIDS ( CERTA CIRCL, ANYWAY) WHO HAVE, RATHER THAN CLICK TO EASY TOPILOT, DUG EPER TO THE WORK OF SEASON TWO. THEIR PERFORMANC, PERHAPS PECIALLY CONNOR’S, ARE PRETERNATURALLY ASSURED AND THOUGHTFUL, GNIZANT OF CHARLIE AND NICK’S GRAND STAGE BUT REMAG CLOSE AND SPECIFIC AND NNECTED. AS THE CENTERPIEC OF THIS ZEGEIST THG, LOCKE AND CONNOR HAVE A LOT TO HOLD ON THEIR SHOULRS. THEY BEAR UP QUE WELL. WHAT REALLY GRABBED ME ABOUT THE SEND SEASON, THOUGH, WAS A TY MOMENT BETWEEN TWO GROWNUPS. ON THE PARIS TRIP, ONE CHAPERONE REMARKS TO ANOTHER, AFTER TCHG CHARLIE AND NICK KISSG A HOTEL HALLWAY, THAT BEE HE ONLY REALIZED HE WAS GAY HIS LATE 20S HE WAS NIED SUCH TENR, YOUTHFUL ADVENTUR. THIS LTLE SCENE IS, I THK, A WAY FOR THE SHOW TO REASSURE THE OLR MEMBERS OF S DIENCE—WHO, SEEMS, ARE MYRIAD—THAT HEARTSTOPPER’S BOTTED FANTASY N BE READ AS JT THAT. IT’S A NICE IA, THAT QUEER TEENAGE TIME ULD BE SPENT SO GAGA, SO FULFILLED. BUT NEEDN’T BE A REFERENDUM ON ANYONE ELSE’S EXPERIENCE, WHICH N SEEM SO SUDNLY LACKG THE INSTAGRAM-GLEAM NTRAST OF THIS SHOW. THE OTHER CHAPERONE S UNRSTANDG AND THEN, BACK THEIR ROOM, THE TWO MEN KISS. LET THE CHILDREN LEAD THE WAY, I SUPPOSE.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORECAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWTHE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERHAS THE HAMPTONS FALLY FOUND ITS GREAT EQUALIZER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)RICHARD LAWSON
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