 I actually don't know how I'm gonna maintain professionalism throughout this video! I was welcomed back to my channel and today you can tell by the title this is my reaction and review to the Heartstopper TV Netflix whatever series. So I did reactions to the trailers but I could not react to the show and film it. I just couldn't. I noticed some of you wanted it and like listen it would have got loads of views would have been great like great for the channel but like I couldn't do it. For context I started reading the graphic novel series I think in 2020 start of 2020 and I just loved it so much so much and it's been such an important you know series for me throughout the years and I just knew I wouldn't enjoy the show as much if I filmed myself watching it because I'd be thinking about you know how I should react and what I should say and I just wanted to relax and enjoy it so that's what I did. I watched it without filming myself and I'm gonna kind of chat to you about it now. Now also we need to understand I'm simply not gonna be capable of like coherent thought or like order in this. I watched a few like reviews of the show and they like have their points planned out listen they got a good structure to the video that makes it easy for you to follow you are no way getting that from me. No it's not happening because I can't I am incapable of thinking logically or seriously about this adaptation I just can't do it so we're gonna go from point A to point P to point Z to point B to point Q like we're gonna be going well there's a place there's gonna be no rhyme or reason to this I'm just gonna chat to you about my thoughts about it and it's like no organization and I'm probably gonna be talking about like the least like relevant stuff you want to talk about but it's like what I'm feeling so that's what we're gonna do okay. I'm also gonna try not to be spoilery for either the book or the show but it's quite hard so if there's anything I think is spoilers I will put spoilers up on the screen but I feel like you know you know the premise of this show and the graphic novels are gonna be Nick and Charlie these characters these boys meeting and falling for each other essentially like you know that that is you don't you know the romance them them falling for each other is not a spoiler I mean that's too far so yeah if you don't know this is a series about these two boys who fall for each other and the show is very much also about their friendship group and also just kind of the trials that them starting their relationship has okay where do we start oh I know where I want to start it's not where you're expecting me to start Nellie. Here I am fabulous and ready to slay. Nellie and Isaac I'm just gonna say are my favorite characters like they're two background characters we'll talk about Isaac later but let's start with Nellie Queen Queen behavior me and my mom had a running joke that A she was the most expensive member of the cast she had very strict rules with her contractor to be freshly shampooed they had to get her good side they were like at one point where they show like a picture of that they took of Nick Charlie and Nellie and Nick Charlie looked fine but Nellie looks fucking beat for the gods like I think they've made she made them photoshop her she was like in scene she didn't need to be and she just be there like and what and what an icon me and my mom just had this running joke every time she appeared like we were just first out laughing at Nellie like Nellie is Nick's dog by the way I'm gonna I'm gonna act as if you've seen the show but also it's not spoiling in case you haven't I also joked that like there's a scene where a character with Imogen goes up and strokes her and I was like right after they filmed that shop people had to rush in and like disinfect her because Nellie Nellie can't even touch you know I like have a theory that and this is so delusional why have I started with this in like a year like a document she's gonna come out how terrified they all were of her and how she was like a nightmare to work with anyway I loved Nellie Nellie was an icon Nellie would like they just always get her good side she always looked beat for the god she was like incredible freshly shampooed she was it okay now we're talking about Nellie how did I feel about this adaptation having loved the books so much I feel protective over the books like there's been a few people like I got a bit jealous I've been a bit jealous of like people who haven't read the books like watching it which of course is not what we want we want everyone to watch this and appreciate it but I've been like um this is mine I will say I just think the actors were incredible considering how young this cast is I thought it did such a brilliant job I think you can tell how involved Alice Oseman was with the whole situation with the whole adaptation because it felt like a very pure adaptation of the graphic novels and I think that what was added in enhanced the story the first graphic novel is like the first three episodes and I think that was pretty much what we saw with a few added details but episodes four to eight so the last five episodes there was a lot added in and I feel like it really did enhance the story and the relationship and all the different relationships that grew throughout the book I do think I preferred the graphic novels but I think it would have been like almost impossible for them to make something that I preferred over the graphic novels I think this is by far the best adaptation of a series that I've loved it ever seen like for example I still have no I I might one day but I've still never finished The Shadow and Bone adaptation on Netflix because I found it really cringe what I liked the the crows parts but I found the Shadow and Bone parts cringe I found them really crunchy so I've never finished it but this I just absolutely loved me and my mom we watched it together we would just be laughing out loud at so many moments we were just like we couldn't contain ourselves Isaac and Ellie were both of our favorite characters let's not talk about Isaac too much but like he's a very minor character but every time he just appeared on the screen I smiled and I just thought he was the sweetest and I thought he was such a great addition Imogen was the other added in character from the graphic like who wasn't in the graphic novels and I think it worked her storyline in the in the series but I didn't think it was like necessary but even though Isaac was just in the background I was like I can't imagine life without Isaac I love him like in the way he said pretty much every single one of his lines of the smile oh I just I love him so much I just love him so much now I cried twice while watching it the the second time was the thing right at the end because I'm pretty sure a lot of people cried at it just felt very beautiful and I think you know without spoiling anything Nick did such a good job wait firstly Kit did such a good job acting in that scene but like Nick did such a good job of expressing himself but I cried I think this is a spoiler I don't know what is a spoiler in this I don't think it's a spoiler I don't think it's a spoiler to be fair but like if you care leave I've seen other people mention this not as spoilers when um Tari Tari that's their ship name my mind oh it amazes me sometimes Tara and Darcy kissed at the party and I didn't cry some people said they cried like at the way Nick looked at them but I cried before he even even saw him like just the joy and the relief and the like nervousness and then being so excited to kiss each other in public was just so emotional and gorgeous and I just think this whole show did such a good job of like honoring what it feels like to be a teenager falling in love I've only ever been in one relationship and I've you know fell in love with him when I was 16 it did such a great job of of that nervousness and that like falling in love with each other and like in a school setting I thought it did a perfect job but also just the the amazing portrayal of queer love in this in this show I think is so needed I think just a purely okay I say purely joyful I mean there is difficult topics covered in this like particularly this one like homophobia and bullying but I think as a whole there's such a joyful message throughout the show did I tell you I'm going from point A to point B to point Z to point Q like I told you I'd be all over the place I don't think like there's no rhyme or reason to this my favorite portrayal in the whole show was Kit portrayal of Nick Nelson Nick Kit acted his little booty up he said yeah I'm an actor I'm an actor look at these fucking eyes at the start I think in the first episode they say Nick's like a Labrador Kit said puppy dog eyes you want puppy dog eyes sure sure I can give you that yeah uh anytime like you saw his eyes I was like so I'm addicted to this um not in a literal of medical sense but I don't think I could live without I thought he did such such such a great job of playing Nick Nelson like beyond anything I could have hoped that was a real highlight for me in the show was just how brilliant he was on it I think give him all the awards I think he's absolutely amazing I did like Charlie's portrayal as well but just not as much as Nick's like I just love Nick so much but Chuck like the way Joe would do Joe Locke who portrayed Charlie would do these like the little waves Charlie's little waves that was one way through a part he just oh my god it killed me and I think he did a great job of showing um kind of Charlie's like awkwardness and overthinking and I think he did a great job of portraying that a character that I would say I appreciated even more in in the show than I did in the graphic novels is Tao the whole friendship group like L I absolutely loved as well and how we saw so much more of her story and like saw a lot of Tara and Darcy through her eyes and Higgs through her eyes I actually loved but Tao you know I liked in the book Tao's a great character in the books but I thought the portrayal of him in this was just absolutely incredible and how he bought both like comedic relief to set and it's like I think the character I laughed out loud most at other than Isaac and Nelly especially Nelly um was Tao I like loved his one-liners especially when like standing up to the billies I just thought he was great and the actor's delivery was great and yeah I think I grew to love Tao even more in this adaptation I will say perhaps like what not negative but like I did feel a bit I'm not sure I got the kissing scenes like a hundred percent I felt a bit awkward watching teenagers kiss listen I'm not old I'm like 22 is that old it's kind of old like I'm kind of old now but I still feel like I'm 16 I feel like having been in the relationship since I was 16 17 I'm like I haven't aged like but like the kissing sometimes was a bit awkward I'm gonna say it oh I'm gonna say it like not awkward but like I just felt uncomfortable and I'm not sure but it's hard because they're kids right like when you watch kissing scenes on tv usually they're like adults you know it's like passionate and steamy but they're kids right even if the actors aren't like well I think a lot of them are 18 but their characters are like 14 15 16 and so it's hard I think to portray that whilst also capturing the kind of like that kind of passion you do have when you're younger because like listen we all like it happens sort of that's what some of us um some of us go through that and like having relationships when we're like you know 16 15 17 whatever but I think it's hard to show that duality of them being young whilst still like liking each other and you know what I mean I think it's hard to show there was a few times the kissing and I was like I don't feel like I should be I don't know if this is for me I don't have on the target market of this and yeah on the whole I just thought it was a great expansion of the characters like Tara I love good news love good news I just love good news sometimes I think in adaptations I've seen a few people talk about us on twitter as well like lesbians are referred to as gay right and like that's fine but like the what use of the word lesbian is so important and it was like so prevalent and like also discussed like uncomfortable like being uncomfortable with calling yourself a lesbian and like Tara trying to figure that out I just thought was so good and I'm just so excited for next season because I know what's coming I feel like they can play a bigger role even more so but I thought their stories were expanded so well oh hang on I just have to thought I loved I loved you can just see the eyes open was like sprinkling all of Alice Oseman's influence over there said let me give you some Alice Oseman let me give you some Alice Osemaness because the the use of like graphic novel panels and like the little doodles the little doodles that happened like in the really important emotional like moments for characters really feeling something I love the theatricality of that that's giving me what I want I always say I love things even in books I love a little bit theatricality a little bit of something more a little bit of something let me give you a moment let me give you a moment that is giving me a moment I loved it I loved that element of it that's exactly what I want and on the whole I think I've talked a lot about my my thoughts I feel like I've really I've really got myself out I told you no organization to this because it was just simply not possible I just needed to gush you know I'm just so glad that this show exists I feel like a lot of people have been saying that but I think it's so amazing that this show exists for like like I said I don't know if I'm quite the target audience well I am in some ways but like younger teens who are like 13 14 15 who are questioning the sexuality or out as gay or lesbian or whatever can see this can see trans rep in this can see so many different types of queer representation in this and feel so seen and it will help them figure them out themselves out and I just think it's absolutely amazing and I'm just so glad this has been adapted even though I feel a bit protective over it and I'm like this was just made for me you guys it's like a multi million pound show it was just for me you know I think back to when I was like 14 and I think the only main I mean of course like you know throughout the years like 2014 was not when suddenly gay representation started to be occurring like I think back to when like my parents were young they watched the first like I think lesbian kiss on buffer the vampire sale which was like their favorite show do you know what I mean so like representation has existed but I'd say that only like really really visible representation I was like a young teenager of queerness was like glee and glee has its issues you know what I mean glee like that was that was a moment in time glee was a moment in time so I think for this to now exist um you know I can't really think of many like adaptations of bisexuality and like characters figuring that out and I think that would have been so amazing for me to see when I was younger I just absolutely loved it I just thought I'm so glad it exists I'm gonna watch it like 10 times over I finished it last night with my mum and I feel like I'm gonna watch it like a billion more times because I just loved it so much and I think they did such a great job you know I've always said that the graphic novels feel like a warm hug you know and I really feel like this show does as well I feel like it really does just feel warm and comforting to be honest the adaptation even with the awkward kissing is more than I think I could ever have hoped for I think it was a real testament to Alice Eisen being so involved in the show that it feels so perfect you know it just felt perfect perfect perfect perfect so yeah I hope you enjoyed it too if you watched it if you've watched it already let me know what you thought of it down below if you haven't go fucking watch it why have you watched this whole video go watch if you haven't but I'm guessing 99% of people watching this video will have watched it and loved it so yeah I hope you enjoyed it let me know all of your thoughts I want all the information also gush to each other about this show down below thank you so much for watching uh sorry it wasn't particularly organized and was just me giving my thoughts but I feel like that was you know gonna be really most realistic and uh respecting the adaptation and how much I loved it so I love you I hope you rest of your day and I'll see you very soon bye