Netflix's young adult comedy-drama "Heartstopper" is a sweet, delightful gem. It is one of the few television shows in the ether that prides itself in being a safe place for its characters and audience. In its second season, the British series based on the comic by Alice Oseman elevates its storytelling and allows all its characters — main and supporting — to live in the uncertainty of coming of age with the just right amount of realness and sugariness. It is still the sweet-tooth-tinged show that made us believe in love, but it has added complexities that fill out the questions that were previously left unanswered.
In the series directed by Euros Lyn, Charlie (Joe Locke) is an out teenager who crushes on his schoolboy seatmate Nick (Kit Connor), who eventually realizes he's bisexual and reciprocates Charlie's feelings. By the end of the wildly successful first season Nick comes out to his mom (the wonderful and surprising Olivia Colman), and is intent on coming out to others as he and Charlie officially start dating.
