Heartstopper season 1 was a joyous and warm celebration of queer love — and fans can’t wait to see what happens next. Less than a month after season 1 premiered in April 2022, Netflix renewed the show — which is based on Alice Oseman’s comics of the same name — for two more seasons.
While season 1 followed volumes 1 and 2 of the graphic novel, season 2, which premieres on Thursday, August 3, will seemingly follow the third comic in the series.
For Oseman, who also serves as showrunner, that meant asking the question: What happens when you come out? Kit Connor and Joe Locke star as fan-favorite couple Nick and Charlie, respectively, on the Netflix hit, while Yasmin Finney, William Gao, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell, Sebastian Croft, Tobie Donovan, Rhea Norwood and Jenny Walser round out the cast. “Charlie didn’t think Nick could ever like him back, but now they’re officially boyfriends.
Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn’t something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they’re dating,” the official season 2 synopsis reads. “Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris.
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