‘Heartstopper’: Inside the Gay Teen Rom-Com Everyone Is Swooning Over
As sunny days and summer flings approach, Netflix is heating things up with a new romance series—but one that’s almost too sticky sweet. Scratch that, actually—Heartstopper is so adorable. It’s perfect! I love it! It can do no wrong!
With a dedicated fan base singing its praises all over social media, a twee soundtrack ripped straight from a 2010’s Tumblr account, and the sweetest two youngsters playing the leads, Heartstopper will, well, stop your heart. (And no, I will not apologize for that corny pun.)
More realistically, it will: make your heart skip a beat, flip around and flutter with joy, shatter into a million pieces, etc.—all the swoony Hallmark things—as little Charlie (Joe Locke) experiences the epic highs and lows of high-school football (in England it’s called “rugby,” I guess). Charlie is gay, so dating at his all-boys school isn’t easy. His first fling seems really into him, dashing around the school to make out in corners and expressing their feelings for each other over Instagram DMs. But he won’t go public.