Heartstopper is now available to stream on Netflix. The coming-of-age queer love story stars Kit Connor ( His Dark Materials,Rocketman ) as the kind-hearted, popular rugby boy Nick Nelson and newcomer Joe Locke as chronic overthinker Charlie Spring.
The eight-part Netflix series is based on the hugely popular boy-meets-boy graphic novel/webcomic by Alice Oseman which, since the first volume was released in 2017, has been viewed 60 million times, bagging 259 thousand subscribers and 4.3 million likes.
Nick befriends Charlie when they are put in the same class in their British grammar school, but it soon becomes clear to them both that this is something more than friendship, as they navigate the highs and lows of first love, friendships, coming out, and mental health. Read more: Award-winning sitcom Alma's Not Normal gets second series Along for the ride are Charlie's friends' Elle (Yasmin Finney), Tao (William Gao) and Isaac (Tobie Donovan), and girlfriends Darcy (Kizzy Edgell) and Tara (Corinna Brown).
Elle is a transgender teen who was forced to move schools after facing horrific abuse, choosing to enrol in the all-girls school down the road.
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