Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman has mentioned she’s “feeling optimistic” in regards to the present’s future although Netflix has not but renewed it.
Season three of the hit teen drama arrived in October however there has not but been phrase about whether or not there may be one other season on the way in which.
Throughout a current dialog with fellow creator William Hussey on the Waterstones Kids’s E book Pageant, Oseman gave an replace on the present’s future.
“I’m working very laborious behind the scenes to get us a renewal for Heartstopper. It’s nonetheless ongoing,” she mentioned. “We don’t have a ultimate reply but, however there are such a lot of individuals behind the scenes who’re working actually laborious to make it occur. We’re feeling optimistic, we’re feeling hopeful, and hopefully we’ll be capable of share some information about that someday quickly. Fingers crossed.”
The creator is at present engaged on the ultimate sixth quantity within the graphic novel sequence, which is able to type the premise of any potential fourth season.
Oseman has beforehand mentioned that if a fourth season is made, it will likely be the present’s final.
“I’ll most certainly be drawing quantity six concurrently whereas writing the season 4 scripts, even when we haven’t been renewed,” she mentioned on Patreon.
“And the opposite factor that I’ve to remember is that I actually, extraordinarily, devoutly want the quantity six ebook to return out earlier than season 4 comes out, so individuals expertise the top of the story from the books first. So there’s a timer counting down now.”
In an interview with NME, Joe Locke defined how he treats each season of Heartstopper prefer it’s the final.
“There are such a lot of transferring components and everybody’s so busy,” Locke mentioned when requested a few fourth season. “For now, we’re simply form of attempting to get pleasure from what we’ve got made. Each time we return [to Heartstopper], it’s like, ‘Effectively, this may very well be it.’”
In a four-star overview of Heartstopper, NME wrote: “In its third and finest season but, bottles are popped, F-bombs are dropped and cherries are, nicely… that is Heartstopper, so the prospect of sexual intimacy is mentioned with the requisite diploma of respect and sensitivity. Whereas Heartstopper has hardly developed right into a Gen Z Skins – nobody is asking “lets do some key?” like Charli XCX – its earlier trace of tweeness has gone and it does really feel extra actual.”
