Summary
- Heartstopper season 2 will premiere on August 3, 2023, and will continue to follow the story of Charlie and Nick's blossoming relationship, as well as exploring other relationships within their friend group.
- The full-length trailer for Heartstopper season 2 confirms that the season will feature a class trip to Paris, providing fans with a glimpse of the major relationships in the series.
- The returning cast from season 1, including Joe Locke, Kit Connor, and Olivia Colman, will be ed by new additions such as Yasmin Finney, William Gao, and Leila Khan, adding depth to the already beloved characters in Heartstopper.
Heartstopper season 1 was a big hit for Netflix, so it's no surprise Heartstopper season 2 news is here. The coming-of-age drama centers on 10th grader Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), his friends at Truham Grammar School, and his crush-turned-boyfriend Nick Nelson (Kit Connor). Heartstopper season 1 garnered an impressive 14,550,000 viewing hours during its first week, and Heartstopper season 2 is set to deliver another chapter in the breakout LGBTQ comedy-drama.
Heartstopper season 1 found Charlie being assigned a new homeroom deskmate, Nick, towards whom he started to develop romantic feelings. It also explored Nick's soul-searching — and he eventually comes out to his mother, Sarah (Olivia Coleman), in the Heartstopper season 1 finale. Netflix’s Heartstopper is based on Alice Oseman’s webcomic-turned-graphic-novel series, but while season 1 followed the first two volumes of the Heartstopper graphic novels, its central characters also appear in other works by Oseman, adding to the pool of possible storylines for Heartsopper season 2, season 3, and beyond. Here's the latest Heartstopper season 2 news, including the cast, release date, story, and trailer.
The Latest Heartstopper Season 2 News
The last significant Heartstopper Season 2 news to arrive prior to the August release date on Netflix was a full-length trailer. Netflix opted to release the full-length trailer just 10 days before the new season was scheduled to air. Previously, the streamer had shared a 37-second teaser for the season as well as an exclusive clip at their TUDUM event in Brazil. Waiting so close to the start of the season to reveal a full-length Heartstopper season 2 trailer was certainly a surprise.
The trailer, however, confirmed most of the speculation about Heartstopper season 2. It features brief overviews of all the major relationships in the series, giving a taste of what fans can expect when the entire friend group travels to Paris for their school trip in Heartstopper season 2.
Netflix revealed the names of every episode in the Heartstopper season 2 at their TUDUM event in Brazil. The names of each episode are “Out,” “Family,” “Promise,” “Challenge,” “Heat,” “Truth/Dare,” “Sorry,” and “Perfect.” There were also several images released from Heartstopper season 2. Two of the photos showed the Paris class trip, one with Nick and Charlie and the second with Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kizzy Edgell). The third new photo shows Elle (Yasmin Finney) and Tao (William Gao) at the movies.
Heartstopper Season 2 Release Date
The latest Heartstopper season 2 news sees the release date revealed. Heartstopper season 2 will premiere on Netflix on August 3, 2023. Filming for season 1 started in April 2021 and took three months to shoot in the UK, but the series was not released on Netflix until April 2022, so an exact timetable was difficult to establish prior to the announcement. Production for the second installment began in September 2022 and wrapped in December. Like season 1, Heartstopper season 2 should release all of its episodes at once, giving viewers the perfect opportunity to binge.
Netflix confirmed the Heartstopper season 2 news of its renewal on May 20, 2022, in addition to season 3. The Heartstopper season 2 news was shared on various social networks by Netflix and Heartstopper’s creator, Alice Oseman. Oseman will return as a writer for both seasons 2 and season 3, and it's expected that series director Euros Lyn and executive producer Patrick Walters will also return in their respective capacities.
Some of the Heartstopper season 2 news comes from executive producer and webcomic creator Alice Oseman, who has revealed exactly where Heartstopper season 2 is in the production process. Speaking at the BFI Future Film Festival (via RadioTimes), Oseman stated that Heartstopper season 2 is in the editing stages — "So, we’re kind of still in the editing process for season 2. Very exciting getting to see the episodes come together. Yeah, just really happy with how it’s looking,".
Heartstopper Season 2 Cast
Some reassuring Heartstopper season 2 news is that the season 1 cast will be returning for season 2. Charlie’s friends will surely come back, including Doctor Who newcomer Yasmin Finney, who will return as Elle. Similarly, William Gao and Tobie Donovan will return as Tao and Isaac, respectively, and Corinna Brown and Kizzy Edgell will return as Tara and Darcy, Elle’s new friends. Olivia Colman will undoubtedly return as Nick’s mom Sarah, and Heartstopper season 2 couldn’t be back without Joe Locke and Kit Connor as Charlie and Nick.
Actor Bradley Riches has been upgraded from a background student character to play Truman student James McEwan. Heartstopper season 2 news reported by DigitalSpy revealed there was an open casting call for "a non-binary or female plus-sized actor of British South Asian heritage." This was for the role of a year 11 student named Sahar Zahid, who will be played by industry newcomer Leila Khan. Heartstopper season 2 will also introduce Nick Nelson's older brother David, who will be portrayed by Jack Barton.
Nick's father Stephane will also play a role in season 2, and will be played by Thibault de Montalembert (All Quiet on the Western Front). Nima Taleghani has been cast as a Truman teacher named Mr. Farouk. Finally, Netflix announced that Bel Priestly and Ash Self will be ing the Heartstopper season 2 cast as Elle's friends Naomi and Felix, respectively.
Heartstopper Season 2 Story
As Heartstopper season 1 ended with Charlie and Nick happily spending their summer together as boyfriends, and with Nick coming out to his mother, Sarah, their relationship will take center stage in the Heartstopper season 2 plot. While the two might feel perfectly at ease around one another, they have to deal with the fact that Nick isn’t out publicly. While Charlie wants to protect Nick from feeling any of the pain that he dealt with in his previous secret relationship, the duo will have to navigate just what it will mean for Charlie to come out - and if he wants to. Charlie's secret ex Ben (Sebastian Croft) has also been lurking and will continue to cause him and Nick problems.
Nick and Charlie aren’t the only relationships getting the spotlight during the Heartstopper season 2 story. Tara and Darcy’s relationship, which seemed perfect in the first season, faces some bumps in Heartstopper season 2. The two have to deal with some communication issues as they face their feelings head-on. Heartstopper season 1, episode 8 also hinted at possible unspoken feelings between Tao (William Gao) and Elle (Yasmin Finney), therefore, their friendship — that could possibly be something more — will be explored. While neither of them want to risk losing a friend, Elle is ready to make her feelings for Tao more overt, and that causes some tension between them.
Other Heartstopper season 2 news has shown that the school will be taking a class trip to Paris, based on Oseman's comic and some set photos. It's also been teased that Charlie will have a lot to deal with when it comes to his mental health this season. Finally, creator Alice Oseman has itted that she had to write a fair bit of new content for Heartstopper season 2. The installment follows the storyline of volume 3 of the comic series.
Webcomic creator Alice Oseman also revealed to Netflix's Tudum site that season 2 will see a lot of new content that isn't in the original comics. Heartstopper season 2 news reports that it's based on volume 3 of the comics, however, Oseman had to write a lot of new things to incorporate into the story in order to flesh it out. "But there’s not enough in the book to take a whole season of TV, so there had to be a lot of creation of new stuff," Oseman shared. While deviating from the source material isn't always ideal, the fact that Oseman has written it should come as some consolation.
Heartstopper Season 2 Trailer
After releasing the first scene of Heartstopper season 2 at Tudum, Netflix has finally released more footage from the season. The final Heartstopper season 2 trailer focuses on the class trip to Paris just as the previous teaser trailer did. Since this trailer is two minutes longer than the teaser though, it does offer quite a bit more information for fans to glean. And that Heartstopper season 2 news is all about relationships.
The romantic relationships and the platonic relationships in the friend group are centerstage. While everyone’s relationships are seeing some obstacles, they also have one another for advice. Elle has Darcy and Tara to talk to. Darcy and Tara have Nick and Charlie to talk to. Charlie is able to advise Nick about coming out — help he didn’t have. All the relationships evolve in Heartstopper season 2.
While the class trip to Paris is a huge part of the graphic novel, it’s not clear how closely the Netflix series will adhere to the graphic novel for Heartstopper season 2, especially since Oseman has written new content for it. Changes have been made from the graphic novel in the past to help with the flow of the story or to better work around the logistics of filming, and the same could be true for the new season. Even if changes are made, however, it’s clear from the trailer that Heartstopper season 2 is set to develop the next stage of everyone’s relationships.
