Why Has Everyone Fallen in Love With Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’?

If someone asked you to draw a Venn diagram showing the overlap between Ted Lasso and Euphoria, you might think it would turn out to be two circles. Ted Lasso, after all, is the heart-warming fish-out-of-water story of a chronically chipper American coaching a struggling English football team. Euphoria, meanwhile, is the glitter-drenched, Extremely Online tale that makes us wonder if we’re more afraid of Gen Z than they are of us. But the overlap, slight as it may be, does exist—and Netflix’s new series Heartstopper resides solidly and sweetly within that sliver. Based on Alice Oseman’s self-published webcomic (and… Read Full Article