They comprise four hours of happiness and hope.Īnd yes, Michael, they are “really sweet.” There is a joy to these eight episodes, to their gentleness and tension, that radiates too brightly to be rejected.
But it’s written so earnestly, acted so deftly and directed so thrillingly that its impact is profound.
Its story, if you don’t already know, is pretty simple: Gay boy meets straight boy, straight boy realizes that he’s bisexual, love blossoms, sometimes literally, all around them. It turned out that I needed Heartstopper.
