( Pirates of the Caribbean is a very good choice, in this writer’s humble opinion.)īut this scene - and the show’s wholesome relationship, more largely - has inspired numerous fans to share their own favorite queer ships from other shows and movies, with the caption “Actually, this was my Heartstopper.” It’s a fun way to remember on-screen relationships that moved viewers - and it also doubles as a neat dive into queer movie and television history. Sometimes these viewings spurred that leap of faith from “I want to be them” to “Oh, I want to be with them.” This particular moment from Heartstopper has gone viral in the form of a tweet. It’s a particular rite of passage, for those who grew up watching television and movies feeling vaguely sexually confused. The most real thing ever been put in a show #heartstopper /fqSKILc1bI- best of pirates of the caribbean April 22, 2022 It’s told succinctly in four shots: a close of up Keira Knightley, then Orlando Bloom, a vaguely aggrieved reaction shot, and then a shot of Nick smoothly Googling “bisexual.” It’s just that hanging out with Charlie, his new best friend, makes him begin to wonder if that assumption is wrong.Ī number of yearning gazes, a smattering of delightful tropes - Charlie joins the rugby team for reasons that are entirely predictable - an “Am I gay?” internet quiz (he gets exactly 62%), and a smooch or two later, Nick has an epiphany during a fateful viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean. Nick is the classic golden retriever love interest he’s the star of the rugby team whose kindness makes him an outlier in his group of friends, and who always assumed he was straight.
There’s Charlie, the anxious, gangly, curly-haired drummer with an iPhone background that fittingly reads “gay panic.” He is the only openly gay student at their all-boys secondary school. Based on Alice Oseman’s YA graphic novels, the eight-episode Netflix series is a coming-of-age queer romance that retains its optimism, even when tackling serious subject matter.
Heartstopper tells a tender, rabbit-hearted story of secondary school classmates Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) falling for each other.