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Heartstopper Review: Aussteigen (und Alter) in der High School

Imagine if the music of Belle and Sebastian had been translated into episodic form, and you’d get something like Heartstopper . The Netflix series, about a gay British teenager falling in love with his straight (or is he?) best friend, is twee to a fault, and it wears its nervous little heart on its perfectly tailored sleeve. It’s sentimental, ingratiating, charming, and ridiculous. It’s also compulsively watchable, and one of the few teen-centric series that stays mostly true to the highs and lows of young romance. Love, Charlie Breaking old ground Golden hours Inhalt Love, Charlie Breaking old ground Golden hours Love, Charlie Based on the webcomic by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper centers on Charlie (Joe Locke), the latest in a long line of shy, geeky, and endearingly awkward teen protagonists. Outcast at his British school due to his recently proclaimed queer identity, Charlie’s only friends are Tao (William Gao), a film buff not unlike Ezra Miller’s character in The Per...