Heartstopper Season 3
Another year another season as this small and perfectly formed but big-hearted love story continued on the journey based on Alice Oseman's webcomics. One of the great strengths of the webcomic and the TV series is that there is so much here apart from the central love story, all woven in and never feeling gratuiously squeezed in for the sake of plot. Having said that, Oseman, who writes the series too, does talk about the need for a different beat and higher stakes being required in the show, leading to the introduction of new characters and storylines. The core stays the same though, the story of Nick and Charlie falling in love and navigating their final years in school, and true to the source material to the extent that many of the scenes in the webcomic are lifted straight onto the screen as if by magic. I have written here and here about the earlier series and for season three there are again multiple story lines, the primary ones being Charlie's...