What is Heartstopper about?
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
Heartstopper (2022)
Teenagers navigate school and young love, finding heartwarming connections in a cozy, uplifting, and romantic series.
Wholesome humor. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Heartstopper parents guide
It stays inside its TV-14, with some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byAlice Oseman
StarringJoe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao, Yasmin Finney, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell
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Heartstopper is on our Gentle, Feel-good, Cozy, Teens and Coming of age lists.
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