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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Heartstopper; Wolf; The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart; The Hidden World of Hospitality With Tom Kerridge – review

a young man and young woman smiling at each other, sitting in a double cinema seat each loaded up with popcorn, drinks and fries
‘Radically sensitive’: William Gao and Yasmin Finney in Heartstopper. © Netflix/ See Saw Photograph: © Netflix / See Saw

Heartstopper (Netflix)
Wolf (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime Video)
The Hidden World of Hospitality With Tom Kerridge (BBC Two) | iPlayer

Who could dislike Heartstopper, Alice Oseman’s uplifting Netflix drama about young queer love, now returning for a second eight-part series? You may as well hurl abuse at a butterfly. The first series was an instant phenomenon, telling the story (spoilers ahead) of Charlie (Joe Locke), the schoolboy victim of homophobic bullying with a painful crush on star rugby player Nick (Kit Connor), who eventually reciprocates.

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