Netflix viewers are heaping praise on new drama Heartstopper, with many calling it the streaming service's 'best series ever,' as it earns a perfect 100 on notoriously harsh review site Rotten Tomatoes.
Having seen teaser adverts for the eight part UK based show, Netflix subscribers had high hopes for adaptation of Alice Oseman's novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between.. The central characters in Heartstopper are Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson whose lives collide when they are sat together every day in their school form class. On the face of things, the two couldn't be more different, with openly gay Charlie and rugby team hero Nick having never seen their paths cross prior to be being chosen to share a desk after a class reshuffle at the start of a new year.
At the time, Charlie is enjoying a secret fling with another boy in school, Ben, who forces Charlie to keep the whole thing a secret, while expecting him to be at his beckon call. After becoming friends, Nick ends up being Charlie's knight in shining armour, coming to his rescue as Ben manipulates him into meeting him. Charlie quickly develops feelings for Nick, unaware that Nick, who'd always assumed he was straight, is battling his own growing feelings for him, as well as questioning his own sexuality.
