Heartstopper, the popular teen series based on the graphic novel by Alice Oseman is back on Netflix for its highly anticipated third season. New episodes and new adventures are coming for the two main characters Charlie and Nick, played by Joe Locke and Kit Connor respectively, who will face new challenges this time, which are not always easy to face. The third chapter of Heartstopper, in fact, unlike the first two seasons which were certainly lighter and more romantic – where the theme of LGBT love was mainly at the center of the story – turns the story to much darker topics , talking about eating disorders and problems thereof. mental health and does so with considerable sensitivity and intelligence.
In this new chapter of the series, in fact, Charlie enters the dark vortex of depression and shows severe symptoms of anorexia that he tries to hide but then comes to light. His boyfriend Nick doesn’t know how to help him, as does his family who at first don’t understand how bad the boy was and how much he needed help. So begins Charlie’s journey towards recovery, with help from professionals but also from his own friends and family to become more self-confident, make peace with food and realize that he can overcome the disease.
With this new season, Heartstopper asserts itself as a well-made series for teenagers, a highly educational, formative and emotional story that goes beyond entertainment, and is a manual of adolescence for children and parents.
The new episodes of the Netflix series, in fact, serve as a real help for those who suffer from eating or psychological disorders but also a very useful tool for those, however, who do not know how to be close to young people who are bad. relationships with their own bodies, with children who are attacked by intrusive thoughts that cause panic attacks, for those who do not know how to manage and overcome their uncertainties.
The beauty of Heartstopper is that since the first season it has always known how to communicate effectively with a teen audience but also with an older audience, to reach everyone’s heart with great ease, to manage to hide on the depth of the themes covered behind the Gile. genre of the story. It is not easy for a TV series to be educational without being “serious”, to talk about mental health or anorexia without being sad – an example is Everything asks for salvation , the Italian series which addresses the theme of mental health by choosing the dramatic . genre and being a very psychologically demanding title and therefore not suitable for everyone.
But Heartstopper manages to take another step: it makes a story that is, underneath, very dark, very serious and could also be very sad, very light, colorful, fun and for everyone. And it not only shows how easy it is for a sixteen-year-old boy to fall into the vortex of eating disorders or depression but also shows the way out without being a depressing, depressing or superficial story.
Heartstopper 3 is a gem, don’t make the mistake of missing it. And even if you’re an adult and don’t like teen series, watch this Netflix title because it will open your eyes to the lives of teenagers and maybe help you judge them less and understand them a little more more.