Netflix’s new teen series “Heartstopper” is already winning hearts far and wide. Will the charming new show get a second season to continue exploring the lives of Nick, Charlie, and their friends?
It’s too early to tell for sure, but the earliest signs certainly seem hopeful. First and foremost, there’s the source material to consider. “Heartstopper” is based on a series of graphic novels by Alice Oseman, with the first instalment published in 2018. Since then, there have been four volumes in total, with Volume 5 (currently planned to be the final volume) slated for a 2023 release date. The first season of the Netflix adaptation of “Heartstopper” primarily covers the plot from the first two volumes of the book series. That leaves two more volumes of material that have already been published, plus another soon-to-be-released volume, that could be adapted as well.
The show’s creative team is also hopeful about another season and has already started thinking about where the show would go next. “If we do get future seasons, I’ll definitely want to be bringing in the themes of mental health, because that’s something that’s really important in the books,” Oseman told Digital Spy. “The challenge of writing ‘Heartstopper’ is exploring those darker issues while keeping the tone so optimistic and hopeful. That has been, like, the struggle of writing it for me the whole way through. But I like to think that it’s possible. I feel like I have achieved it in the books.”
If another season does happen, Oseman also revealed that the scope of the story will expand to involve some of the teachers, not just the teenage students who have been the centre of the show so far. “If we do get a future season, we’ll be moving into volume three of the books. And that is when the teacher romance happens,” Oseman said. “So in the show, we’ve already got Mr. Ajayi, but in the books there’s also Mr. Farouk, who comes in, in volume three. And they have this kind of interesting friendship going on in the background that eventually becomes something more.”
While it will probably be a while before Netflix makes any public decisions regarding the future of “Heartstopper,” it’s certainly good to know that the folks behind the scenes are prepared to hit the ground running on a second season.
