In just a few episodes Heated Rivalry became a HBO show that got the world talking, largely thanks to its steamy sex scenes. The book to screen adaptation (which is steaming with a HBO Max subscription), had had plenty of love scenes, and creator Jacob Tierney recently opened up to his approach to those sequences, as well as rumors that Kip and Scott's ended up getting cut. Let's break it all down.
Heated Rivalry is giving queer folks their own smutty TV show, with the show following two different gay couples who are struggling to deal with their love in the midst of the professional Hockey scene. The show's love scenes are a big reason why it turned so many heads at first, and in a conversation with EW Tierney addressed the way he approached the show's inherent "horny" nature. In his words:
