Heartbreak High Season 2 was interesting (but so good)
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i am convinced that the writers were on something this season because these storylines were CRAZY
"we'll have what Ant's having"
THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING!!! 🤯
Agreed 😂
they went to a riverdale writing camp while on break 💀
Right!
I actually really like that spencer and ant are not black and white. They act like immature and ignorant boys and do problematic shit but you can still tell that they arent just "incels". For example they supported malakais and rowans relationship without a second thought. They still hang out with their "enemies" during camp and treat them like friends. At the end of the they they dodnt do anything thats beyond forgivness like chook and Its WAY more realistic for them to be this way and make us constantly flip between supporting and hating them.
Petition to add Ca$h's nan to the ultimate girlboss tier (she slayed)
No one else knows Harper was part of the map and that just bothers me so much 🙃
I knowwww why is amerie the only one that has to endure the backlash? It's not like they showed us a scene of Amerie and Harper agreeing not to reveal that she was also part of it, so that she doesn't suffer too. Amerie just assumes all the blame and Harper never says anything at all! She just stood there seeing how they defenestrate amerie for it right in front of her! and she just lets all the attacks go to Amerie. I feel like the writers are gaslighting us with that... Like... What kind of best friend will do that? Sike
i feel like it’s because they are trying to make it seem like because harper went through such trauma her actions are justified and even amerie said that as well sooo(i hate it as well)
SAME it really bothered me deep down that she never took accountability for that but ik she had much worse shii going on.
@@gabrielacanette5485 Ikr I was pissed off to see Amerie go through all of the attacks without Harper saying anything the writers fail at that part of the movie and I don't like the fact that Amerie lost her boyfriend to a guy that had it out for her behind something that happened when their was kid's only for that same person that had a relationship with her boyfriend and turned around and play like he's into her I didn't like that part at all Rowan played both of them and then he catches up with Malakai and threatened him behind Amerie I wasn't feeling this part of the movie 🤷
@@tianahaley9913frrrrr I actually dislike Malakai for how he treated our girl Ams. He has no respect for her at all if he just uses her when wants to fck and ditching her when he doesn’t. Then WHILE being somewhat in a relationship with Amerie he goes after someone else. I just don’t want him messing Amerie up.
I'm autistc and seeing accurate representation with an autistic actor playing that character makes me so unbelievably happy. I love quinni so much and because of that one critique of the second season i have is im so angry that darren didn't apologise to quinni for what they said to her at the zoo about the world playing by her rules. Being autistic in todays society is so exhausting and we have to mask constantly and it ruins out mental health and to see darren say something so ignorant towards quinni really made me mad, especially after how good they were to quinni in season 1. I really don't like that quinni was the one to apologise just for unmasking and darren didn't apologise at all.
I completely, 100% agree with this. Something felt off about that whole situation to me and I didn't realize it until now, but this is exactly it. As an autistic person myself I've spent the majority of my life apologizing to others for my own struggling, and seeing Quinny do the same thing broke my heart a little bit. I don't think Darren is a bad person and I think that they have good intentions the majority of the time, but they are selfish a lot of the time, and I hated the way that that affected Quinny this season.
Maybe they overstep whit that, but they shouldnt have to stop their moving out or have to hide that information from her doesnt it? Quinny was angry with them for something that wasn't their fault either way. I think they were both unfair in that interaction.
She was my favourite this season!
Darren was definitely wrong for that but Quinnie was also very much in the wrong she can't be mad at people for their lives changing that's just a normal thing that happens.
I agree! I loved her storyline in season one but I feel like in season two she was an afterthought. Like her main point of being there was to try to solve this mystery and that’s it. Like what happened with her and Sasha’s breakup? Why did Darren literally not apologize at all for treating her like shit? Why did Quinni forgive Sasha so fast after she was so ableist? I hope the next season gives her a better storyline :/
I have never seen so many mullets, one after the other, consecutively, in a row
REAL THERE WERE SO MANY
That’s South Sydney for you
You must not live in Australia then
@@hiiiimsarah9599 Yeah I didn't think there were that much in the show.
we love a mullet
The writers WERE WORKING like ugh 😩 every episode had me hooked
The writers were lazy asf this time from season 1🔥 to this💔 disappointing asf
I WAS GAGGED EPISODE AFTER EPISODE
SAME
FR
@@Noneofyourbusiness194 Girl this season was great wym
I love principal woodsie. She is so funny.
Agreed 💯
thank u for being one of the only people to acknowledge that malakai was 🍇aped. that whole episode literally made me so anxious and then disappointed and upset that his assault is never acknowledged. he was so messed up after it too
Yuh, this!
I wish they had made the character of mr voss more believable. I know people like him actually exist but he felt too much like caricature of those people. He sounded more like somebody on twitter than somebody in real life
Yeah agree it didn’t come across natural. By the end he was like a full blown Super Villain
@@benhaynes4409 Exactly! He literally almost killed a bunch of teenagers and he showed zero remorse
@@hannahgriffith8530 yep! 4 teens were still inside when it was burning and luckily made it out. I thought maybe then he’d have a realisation moment that he went too far but instead they went for weird comedic campy moment with him
@@benhaynes4409 four? i know of three, who was the fourth?
@@jester333 Amerie, Harper, Rowan, Quinni all inside whilst building was on fire. Yes Quinni went in after it was on fire but her safety was still in jeopardy
I didn’t mind Spider development this season, as it’s the character realising that he needs to do better - on his own; by the end. I think it’s less Spider changing for a girl. But, Spider having positive influences outside of his less than stellar ones.
Missy tells him - earlier in the season - that he doesn’t have to be that person. Just because it how people expect, or assume, him to be or behave. While Jojo tells him the actions have more meaning. I think he internalises those lessons, in the finale. By actively getting up; saying that he doesn’t want anything from anyone. But, he’s going to change.
While he was trying to change - prior to that. He pointed that change in the wrong direction. Outwards, rather than inwards.
But, it’s not Missy who makes Spider ‘change’; Spider is always the one who wants to make the active choice to change. He just needed to refocus where that change needed to occur.
Hopefully Season Three will explore Spider - outside of his relationship with Missy - making those changes.
On the topic of Sasha, she was a perfomative activist even in season one. She's just more of a comedic relief this season, Its not uncommon for a character to go from serious character to comedic relief from season to season
I am biased tho because I thought she was really funny this season so the change doesnt bother me, I think shes gonna go back to be serious next season
she was seless and annoying this season, didnt add anything to the plot
@@OdysseyNaafiri is that a problem? she wasnt the focus at all so its not like time was wasted on her storyline. She literally didnt hv one
@@OdysseyNaafirieverything rammy said is right, but she also served a narrative purpose as someone the characters could bounce off of or be contrasted with. but still mainly as comic relief
@@yaboiiyadudee3644 she was just there to be extremelly woke to the point if seeing childish.
@@OdysseyNaafiriwell she wasn’t a main character this season so we didn’t need a complex version of her
I think they implied that Rowan blamed Amerie because he didn't want to blame himself. He deep down thought it was his own fault. Also I don't understand why Malakai broke up with Amerie to get together with Rowan, broke up with him to find out he still loved Amerie...maybe I'm too old for this teenage drama...
As someone who’s currently in highschool i feel that it’s a very accurate representation of relationships today. People not knowing what they want going for someone else and then going right back to the person they were with beforehand.
I think Malakai knew he was into Amerie but also was trying to figure out his bisexuality and in the fight with Amerie where she asked if he was gay and he says “no I’m bi!” It was him getting over his confusion and accepting it, and then him being with Rowan let him confirm he is bi, but he still loved Amerie even after accepting this part of himself.
Amerie was so full of herself at that time and went behind his back. It's been a trust issue too
Yeah but then how he came back around in the end was so weird... like this guy had been obsessing about this and also having these psychotic episodes/anger issues/idk what. It didnt seem solvable by just one near death experience...? It was weird. But i found it funny that the writers wanted to remake these storylines of the first season with amerie hurting someone unknowingly and them being mad at her
you’re not too old im in secondary (high school in the uk) and i found it confusing too 😭
EVERYONE WAKE UP HEARTBREAK HIGH GOT MENTIONED 🗣️ 🔥(literally such an underrated show tho ngl)
YES!!!
ITS SO UNDERRATED
I really liked how you discussed Spider’s storyline!
I found it interesting that Spider wasn’t able to get…well…*ahem* “physically excited” with Missy until he finally let go and allowed himself to be fully vulnerable with her? I think the writers in initially implied that he couldn’t do any intimate activity because of his mother resenting him for the dream she had of him assaulting a woman. You were right in saying he internalized this, and subconsciously convinced himself that he was capable of such a terrible act: almost as if his brain was ‘afraid’ to get excited because his mother had emphasized that his genitalia was a weapon. When he finally let go of this, he was able to fully give himself to Missy.
This is why I thoroughly enjoyed this season especially! Because there’s nothing better than a comedy tackling societal concepts. Toxic masculinity is so valid today and I’m glad they went with this conflict
Alot of the plots seemed rushed this season. Like I really wish the writers hadnt revealed to us that Rowan was bird psycho so much earlier then when its revealed to the characters in the show. Especially since we see at the very beginning what happens at formal. So we find out in episode like 5 or 6 its Rowan and then just spend the rest of the season waiting for it. It would have been way more shocking to reveal it to both the audience and characters right before the fire happens.
agree
They would've had to rewrite the whole last 3 episodes then cuz Quinni finds out that it's Rowan before Amerie does.
I love how the show goes from totally silly and fun to tackling really serious matters. The whole Incel storyline is just so relevant these days.
I don't know if it was just me who thought that... but in my opinion, Rowan played with Malakai and dated him to keep him away from Amérie. He has been obsessed with Amerie since the beginning. And he noticed that Malakai was developing feelings for him. So, Rowan knew that by "winding it up", he would separate the two.
Agreed 💯💯
i did really like the way they had harper drop the charges. i think its really realistic & understandable for someone in her position. I do wish we saw her talk about it but i think the lack of conversation about it is very realistic as well. When something like that happens teens tend to try and push through and move on; its not often something that you acknowledge until youre older. Without words, we did see the way it affected her though through her struggle to approach the idea of getting close with Ant.
As an autistic asexual seeing such representation is so refreshing. The scene especially that made me cry was when Cash talks to his nan about how he feels essentially broken and that hes always going to be a burden in relationships because of his asexuality. It was such a needed thing to explore in media, and God I wish this was around for younger me to experience. I will say, I was wary at first regarding how they would tackle an asexual/allosexual relationship dynamic, and the part where Darren went off to get sex instead of talking through the problems with Cash and kept putting off conversations did really annoy me but in the end i think it worked out well and I hope if theres a season 3 it will explore them more. It really has a brilliant start of showing an asexual relationship in media in which we dont usually get much representation. I will say though, Dustys comment that "dont you think its selfish to expect him to drop all his desires" was very hurtful to hear myself and so thats really made me dislike his character even more than what i felt originally.
But the scene where they have an intimate moment in the forest in their own way was absolutely beautiful. It also did an amazing job at showing that not all asexuals are sex repulsed which is such a common misconception and never explored.
But yeah i really want more communication between Cash and Darren if they continue their relationship.
Yes I agree
AGREED!!
I don't even like the show that much, I am just here for the (amazing btw) ace rep! Completely agree with everything you said btw and Dusty's comment felt like a slap
I was so upset when Dusty made that comment, as an ace myself. I am really curious how Darren and Cash’s relationship will work in S3 tbh
i personally really liked how they handled harpers anger in the first season most just because it felt more realistic! i assumed they were aware while writing for her that amerie isn’t at fault but harper in that state of shock would take it as the intimate betrayal. it made sense to me not that the anger wasn’t misdirected but i understand what the writers were hopefully intending :)
exactly!! harper had just been through an extremely traumatic event and obviously wouldn't be looking at things objectively from ameries point of view, I really don't get all the harper hate
Finally some Amerie love!! She really is best girl cause honestly half of the things she takes and forgives, I won’t be able to.
Amerie is my favorite character. That's my girl. She's so forgiving and takes so much crap. Couldn't be me. Even with the bad stuff she's done, I'm still in her corner. For Spider, I've come to the conclusion that I'm a sleeper hater. I'm not actively praying for his downfall unless he does something crazy. Sasha was annoying last season but, now she's funnier.
I agree I do really like amerie Character But the only thing that was like disappointing Is that I really liked Quinn And Sasha and they like threw then Away in the second season like I thought they would like at least bubble it up a little bit
@@CarolineStrunk-ld4ri I didn't like the way Sasha talked about Quinn. She also just came off to me as annoying and a performative activist.
i love her, her character is so funny and relieving to see such a take names- kick ass character.
i agree completely except i only liked sasha on episodes 7 (at the end) and 8 when she helped Quinni with Bird Psycho
you are actually so valid for the Amerie take!! my best girl fr
I'm so glad someone finally said Harper was being too much as in being the worst friend and actually the villian not Amerie season 1 😂😭.
i LOVED this season and i cried so fckin hard at quinnis scene, the soundproof room with harper and amerie, and rowan sitting next to his dead brother :((
It was different. I dont think it was worse. I do have some issues with the cumlord storyline but I get what the writers were trying to achieve.
it def had potential to be better!!
havent watched it yet, CUMLORD storyline ?!?!!!
@@avitheofficial7014 yes, idk if you've watched the first season but the characters call themselves sluts because the initialization of their course is SLT (Sexual Literacy Tutorial). So with the boys and their masculinity course it's something that the acronym is CUM (Comprehensive Understanding of Masculinity) so they call themselves cumlords.
same!!!
it was so good IMO. also yeah the cumlord stuff was stupid but that’s highschool boys for you
I hate the development for Malakai the most, in s1 they made it seem like he was dealing with racism but never fully invested into it. Which is fine bc he’s more than just black but it seemed like it was just a set up for him to question his sexuality (leading to the threesome). Bc suddenly it was no longer about his race and besides the forced connection between him and missy (something that barely gets developed), the writers completely move on to him being bi. They never explored what he’s going through and instead force silence onto him. We never see him connect with anyone on a deeper level nor does he express his feelings about his sexuality or race. I would love for them to stop glossing over his struggles and actually commit to something when they mention it.
That’s a great take. I hadn’t thought about it like it until now… the description of aboriginality and racism in S1 does seem a bit glossed over. Like, he just needed to go to country (not cheapening the meaning of country for Aboriginal people at all, it was mostly what the show depicted it as), and then he was okay again. What!? It was a two minute scene. That’s clearly not reflective of real life, although, it did drive a lot of his future as a result. However, saying that, I’m glad that it was explored, even if it was cheap. I hope that S3 has a bit more of an exploration of this.
Totally agree! It was really interesting when he was so upset about Amerie posting the video and then that storyline was just totally dropped?
I really agree! I find it frustrating bc the show understandably continues Harper's arc in dealing with her assault, but it completely drops Malakai dealing with racism, his sexuality, and the threesome, which, like many others, I agree veers into sexual assault territory. I feel like the show is only interested in Malakai's dating life, which is annoying bc he's the only main character whose interiority isn't just as much a part of his character, which, like, why? He's so interesting and rich and complex, and it really sours Mardi Gras episode, bc why go out of your way to show a realistic event with a police officer and show one episode of Malakai struggling with it, and then not deal with it ever again? It feels cheap bc the show is otherwise pretty good at unpacking and continuing to show the effects of what the teens go through.
And I just haaaaate how the threesome was only mentioned in s2 in funny ways and, like you said, as set-up for his sexuality, and it's never again framed as something that happens while Malakai is drunk, high, right off a break-up and fight with Amerie, and most vitally, right after he's ASSAULTED by a POLICE OFFICER. Anyway. Thank you for voicing this so well bc it's my biggest problem with season 2!!
Yeah true. From an non-Australian point of view, it’s a missed opportunity to show the world the struggles that blak people go through.
I don't think Spencer had the reform arc for a girl but Missy was the first one who showed him there's possibility to still change. His circle was an echo chamber and mother was a bad representation of feminism, so Missy offered the possibility of accountability and restoration. Patriarchy hurts men too while disgusing itself as something to benefit men. I think the confusion for a man to be exposed to these "alpha male, feminism is making men weak" tropes are real and it was nice to see a relatively realistic exploration of that confusion and that there is still time to change for the better.
In a way I kind of hate the trope that the only reason Spider was a problematic incel was because he was raised by an unhinged single mum.
I also agree that the characters truly scapegoated Amerie throughout the entire season. Season 2 felt more farcical and like a parody of itself than season 1.
The saving grace for me was Ca$h. His character is authentic.
can u elaborate on the 1st part lol
@@awts..7954it means that the show tried to give a sob story to him and make us feel sorry for him by making the way he thinks and acts suddenly justified becuz of his mom
@@bw1775 didn't they try to do that in the 1st season tho? With amerie having a one night stand with him?
and i don't think it was justified tbh , because there was the short break up with missy while how he started acting like an ass again in front of the election then quinni called him out
Different to never have i ever, Amerie's parents are not first generation migrants so culture background is rarely mentioned in her storylines
For the Australian's here, who else picked up on so many niche references like the succulent chinese meal and the Rage sequence etc. ?
I think the actor who played Darren's dad was unavailable, he's a pretty famous Australian actor (In Australia at least)
i believe he was in the original heartbreak high series and maybe harper's dad too?
@@hellothanksforbeinghere Yes he was, fun fact so was the police officer who unintentionally gave harper ptsd, and the blonde woman Amerie speaks to in season 2.
@@hellothanksforbeinghereyeh he’s Rivers in the original series
They should have put in the storyline of Kylie Minogue who is the villain of the season as the Mako Queen coming to turn people into mermaids and unleash the Kraken while singing Magic
crying
Rowan really was just having a mental health episode. I think it was all a psychotic frenzy to get back at Amerie. We see he was hallucinating his brother the whole time and every step was just to get at amerie. Even at the pit filled with all those boy’s secrets, Rowan’s was to forget her. I don’t want him back for the next season it’s a little too hinged for me and I hope the plot leads to him going to a psych unit. But they did Malaki so DIRTYYYY like oh my god. The letter burning in the end killed me. And Sasha I think that’s just her character right now to be super pc and an activist but be lazy and fake about it. Hopefully we see her one day be genuine with it all. They skipped out on Harper I think. I agree that we really don’t see her cope with all this. Even with ca$h being dropped off by chook she barely reacted when seeing him.
exactly!!! i agree sm but also i think Harper is just so done with the world rn, but she probably would’ve reacted way more to seeing Chook, so idk why the writers made her get over it so fast?
Malachi did that to himself. He was never serious with Amerie. Atleast not how the writers portrayed him. Rowan had really good chemistry with Amerie outside of his episode.
I seem to be the odd one out with Rowan’s arc.
I loved his story and give kudos to the wonderful art animation they showed to illustrate the tragic background that we needed from Rowan. It’s absolutely devastating and you have to feel some sort of empathy for the character. I don’t think he needs to be chucked in a ward I just think the character needed serious therapy!
@@anakinjmanu rowan had more chemistry with amerie than malachi did. Malachi just seemed to waste her time.
Although I agree with your point. Everyone is always pro-mental health until they observe a real episode.
I would like to add that Mr. Voss didn't actually intend to set fire to the school. If you remember, JoJo said "is there supposed to be a third testicle?", and Voss didn't actually know the trail of fire was going to go that far, back into the school. It seems like that may still be a mystery to resolve.
he most likely had one of his students do it and they were dumb about it
@@BARALover96 Or maybe it was Rowan?
@@ErrorRaffyline0 I think he would’ve said something about it.
@@BARALover96I honestly did think it was rowan at first but he seemed to not react to the spoke at all, obviously because of what was going down, but I feel like if it was him he would’ve mentioned it in some way
I thought it was pretty clear it was Rowan but maybe I'm wrong. Like, we see him have a mild internal crisis when he hears that Amerie still loves Malakai, and he runs away. A few scenes later, the fire happens.
And it's not like we haven't seen him do crazy shit before, he literally pinned Malakai to a wall and threatened him, did all the crazy dead bird stuff, has vivid hallucinations of his dead brother, and locked Amerie and Harper in a room in a burning building with smoke coming in. I don't think it's a far stretch. That man needs HELP.
pookie's got a sponsorship i'm so proud
i think i kinda just stopped questioning the show and its intentions when they played that tiktok "Oh no oh no no" song and then deli by ice spice very abruptly..ive came to conclusion the show is just supposed to be very goofy at its core and that's all. I hope in season 3 they go down a more serious route BUT in a camp way...ALSO the fights between characters where they would just walk away after saying their one liners was getting soo tiring like these people cant just talk out their problems 😭😭😭
Ca$h and Chook were in the boat fearing for their lives and all you hear is…🎶She a baddie she showing her panty.🎶 the amount of confusion on my face was indescribable 😂
@@Young4eva121LITERALLY I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD LMAOOO
@@Young4eva121 FRRRR THAT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD 💀💀
@@Young4eva121LMFAOOO BRO TS CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD AND MADE ME LAUGH LIKE???? WTF WAS THAT?$£\£]££2€>
i was dying when deli was playing oml 😭😭 it was so unexpected
There’s one new actor this season that I HATED! Like truly what were they even doing here?
And that actor was Rowan’s wig
same omg like I couldn’t take him seriously in the first half
I guarantee you that was NOT a wig lol I liked his hair idk why everyone hates it
I like long hair in guys
Lmao 😂😂😂
I was like "BRUSH YOUR HAIRRRRR" the entire season 💀💀💀
OK ONLY 4 MINUTES IN BUT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT HOW WRONG THAT THREESOME SCENE WAS!!! the show loves to play it off like it was consensual and that Malakai was wrong to do that but ??? he literally got assaulted by police and was taken back to harper’s place just expecting to be confided and gets roped into sex with her and her bf??? and if I’m not mistaken he was also under the influence. theres no real consent there at all. Harper was shitty for even thinking to do that like what???
i agree. sasha and missy told harper she was wrong for taking advantage of malakai, and cash mentioned it to dusty in season 2. but apart from that, neither of them faced consequences for their actions. in fact, neither of them even genuinely apologized (to amerie AND malakai)
I'm watching this immediately after finishing S2 and I fully agree they should go all out in S3. For me, this is the kind of show that gets better as it gets more unhinged (provided that the characters' actions make some kind of sense).
And yeah, I hope Rowan receives some kind of consequences for his actions (or more therapy, idk) and that Amerie doesn't continue with him as if nothing happened. That boy is still not okay 😭
NAH BECAUSE I HATE THE FACT HOW AMERIE FORGAVE ROWEN WHEN HES LITERLLY A PSYCO, GASLIGHTER, MILIPUNATOR ETC???
I dont think she actually forgave him tho... she was feeling sorry for him and she didnt want him to die but i dont think she would keep a close relationship with him after that night of the season finale...
she shouldn’t forgive him at all but i like that she saved him
@@briclare Agreed 💯 he's needs to be held accountable for his actions just like Quinni said it's someone that hates Amerie and I didn't like the fact that they had her liking him after knowing he had been with Malakai got me smdh🤷
hes severely mentally ill though and realizez his actions after/during the fire when his hallucantion of his younger brother disappears
The only thing I didn't really like was the spider-Missy storyline... It felt really sketchy and wrong in a way, like Missy was just there to improve spider? I just hated it
🤔
literally just used missy for that and almost nothing else
tbh, I think the backstory with Amerie and Rowan makes sense and I think it kind of highlights how he has mental health issues and obviously the writers like kind of make it known that it’s not even Amerie‘s fault and Rowan also comes to that realization later on as well. I think it shows like how complex grieving can be, and how a lot of times when people are grieving they always try to put the blame on someone and instead of having to carry all that hurt and think it’s his fault he blamed Amerie. in my opinion, I don’t think it was anyone’s fault he couldn’t have known that his brother was going to die from the car crash and obviously Amerie didn’t kill his brother it’s just like a chain of events. Rowan was definitely a character that we weren’t expecting the season, but I think that’s kind of what made this season Kind of exciting since it had like a mystery aspect to it. it also shows how Rowan kinda grows as a person towards the end a little (maybe not grow as a person), but he does come to the realization that he shouldn’t be blaming people and that he shouldn’t have taken it this far, I just think it’s really interesting to see characters that have mental health issues portrayed even if they are somewhat villainess because it just shows how your mental health can really affect yourself and other people.
That season was FIRE
Also, the representation of how painful an abortion is was amazing too
I love heartbreak high cause omg so many niche Sydney references! Like fr I live a minute away from Harry’s cafe de wheels
sasha's performative activism has been a thing since season 1, right? i'm hoping next season they actually expand on that and give her proper development
Something about the season felt off it me, so i didn't watch past episode 2. But i liked your thoughts and honestly some light spoilers made me a little interested again.
Rowan has the exact same energy as Dan from Gossip Girl
The insane storyline was a callback to how truly bonkers neighbours and home and away storylines are
I love this show but I hated how Amerie got blamed for EVERYTHING
I feel like they tried to do alot this season but kinda ran out of time at the end so just rushed everything off
LOVED season 2 !
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SPOILER loved the
Twist of Rowans little brother who occasionally appears is actually a ghost!
I thought he was a hallucination because Rowan definitely had a psychotic episode
@@aleksandranakonieczna9880 yeah he was in his subconscious: I meant he wasn’t really there - only in rowans mind
same! i was so shocked when rowan told the story like i was FULLY not expecting that
I agree with EVERYTHING you're saying except the Rowan and Malakai stuff. The second i saw the two of them in one shot, everyone i showed agreed they're clearly made for each other and happy they got their little moment while it lasted. To each their own though.
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT SASHA!! Like srsly in season one I actually liked that she was more uneducated then she came off cause it’s quite common with teens like her. But in season two they completely villainise her like way too much. So I really hope they plan to have Sasha humble herself a bit and build a better relationship (platonic or love doesn’t matter) with Quinni because in season 1 she literally said “I can’t be hated by you Quinni, I can’t be hated by you” but in season 2 becomes nasty to Quinni which doesn’t make sense
I missed the parents making apperances too. In the first season was made clear that Darren wasn't confortable living with their mother and her bf and their father is meant to be in book tour (aka plot excuse for his character to disapear). But we didn't even got to see into Quinni's homelife even when she almost died and was on rest for a few weeks! And what about Amerie's mom? What did she feel about Harper moving out? About her daughter campaign?
I think that the seasons need a couple more episodes, so characters like Missy or Ant get a chance to be fleshed out and to allow more appaerances of family and work life, without it being a distraction from the main plots and characters.
Voss was the gym teacher’s name. I hope he rots in jail.
I’m so happy people love Heartbreak high because Netflix releases are hit or miss tbh.
This show is actually good without being too too much.
Also I love Darren a lot, he’s my favorite character ever
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i love this show sm. and yeah i have a love hate relationship with darren, bc they disappoint me by saying the wrong thing A LOT😭
@@briclare aww really?😭 what has he said, Darren can be out of pocket sometimes but I don’t think they’ve said anything really problematic
If they are your favourite character how are you still messing up their pronouns? 😂
@@Demxnicisthebest it’s a character….on tv🫢 it’s not like I’m talking about James. Y’all can relax
I have a theory that on heartbreak high every season ends with one of the "swords" Harper got on her tarrot reading. Let me explain. So the three of swords is heartbreak, grief and loss (The fortune teller then interprets heartbreak with betrayal so we'll work with that). In the first season we got Amerie's betrayal to Harper, in the second season we got Rowan's loss. Maybe in the third season we get someone's grief, possibly Amerie's. Or Rowan is grief and maybe the 3d season is about loss but I don't think so.
spencer and his dynamic with missy was my favourite part of this season
Wait I’m confused about the ending, don’t Harper and Ant get together tho? I feel like she did return his feelings afterwards. Especially in the end when when they were dancing and both put their foreheads against each other.
well they didn’t ’get together’ but i’m pretty sure there’s a scene where harper talks about or someone says to harper she’s emotionally shutting off and keep people at a distance because of her trauma but it isn’t healthy? something like that which then makes her realise she does like Ant back she was just scared to let him in and be truly emotionally vulnerable (which the end scene shows as her letting him in in some capacity)
Amerie and Rowan had great chemistry. I honestly thought that they would have been end-game. Malachi didnt take enough initiative, and it felt as if he was playing with Amerie's heart.
I was disappointed in the way they handled the "male rights activist" topic. It made no sense to burn the school down, but surely made for an interesting ending
sasha turned into a charicature this season, which takes away her label of being just a normal progressive teenager making misconceptions with her autistic girlfriend. she was really over the top with the bigotry accusations to the point where she got really irritating. but I think the actress pulled this off in a humorous way though.
Rowan on the other hand just straight up annoyed me. he's manipulating a girl who has only little influence over his trauma ( that is in fact, nobody's fault), and wanted to project it onto her because he couldn't learn to deal with his own trauma. I felt incredibly sorry for brother's passing, but at the same time, everyone was just a kid. no need to sl-t shame or put bird c-rpses on her belongings to terrify her. but do I think his character makes sense? yes! do I think he belongs in heartbreak high? yes! but do I think he should've been this obstacle in malakai and amerie's relationship? no. I was really excited for some more amerie and malakai, but we don't really get that, except for some really uncomfortable love triangle drama. also why does amerie have to be mentally tormented every season because somebody can't open up about their trauma? I can somewhat understand for Harper in season 1, but season 2??
just saw a clip on tiktok and now i’m invested in your channel!!
you explained all of this so well and i agree so so much with this !!!
I tried to be open to Missy/Spider, but like ... so annoyed that Missy getting more screentime is completely hinged on Spider's character, while Spider gets to have the romance, AND exploration of his home life, AND a huge arc about reckoning with who he was and who he wants to be. What about Missy? What about her home life, her changing relationship with Sasha maybe, or a deeper look into her friendship with Malakai beyond a few funny scenes? Missy's character is used entirely for Spider's character and I'm not here for that.
And idk, I liked Spider in season 1, there was the perfect amount of him, he was shitty and funny and everyone gave him the crap that he deserved. It felt realistic. Then, in season 2, they give him this man-hating mom to explain why he is the way he is and have him make a speech against women when Missy slights him, making it seem like, he doesn't REALLY believe the shit he spews but it's a defence mechanism and a response to his mother's hatred or whatever which is like ... idk, I think Spider does believe it. Or at least, he's interesting BECAUSE he buys into it. The show is all, "Spider, you don't have to choose to be an asshole" which is correct, but it feels like they didn't want to commit to him THINKING actual incel thoughts (and racist thoughts, like, hello, remember his comment about how Malakai shouldn't have provoked that cop?) so they conflate his behaviour with him being a dick instead, but no! He's sexist! He genuinely thinks the school has it out for white straight guys!
I wish the show committed to him having to UNLEARN his unhealthy and inappropriate thoughts about sex, women, race, etc, rather than frame him as someone who needs to learn to be kinder. I also just hate that he gets to have this whole journey but Sasha is relegated to a side character unworthy of exploration or growth, but I digress.
missed the show reviews so much n just finished this show so v excited for this!
Just finished both the seasons and I loved it. Australian sex education is a pretty good way to put it lol. Spider's arc is definitely a bit iffy for me too but I can see him as someone that always wanted to change and just needed a little push and Missy was that push for him. I was a iffy about it at first when he only started to change because of her but I think after that he did realize that he didn't want to be that person he used to be anymore. I feel like somewhere there he realized that people on both sides can be really extreme(his mom and Voss) and that's what really prompted his final growth but that's just what I personally interpreted. I think Darren was allowed to move out because his dad was on a book signing trip or something. They mentioned something like that.
you have the best take on this - honestly 100% same!!
With spider I am just happy that spider changed because of missy and not really for her if that’s sense
Ugh Rowan is so gross I don’t want to see him ever again.
i’m an amerie defender for life
Here we go again! Amerie gets blamed again!? Then she forgives everyone and just wants everyone to forgive her!? Girl you better than me because I will probably have an emotional break down or change schools! She is a very strong, beautiful, kind hearted person. No wonder Malachi could get enough of her. Even though he can be a selfish jerk, he has a side of him that is gentle and adorable that is hard to resist. As a millennial from PA, United States, I fully support and love this show ❤
I wish it was kinda amerie's fault that Rowan's brother died like i feel like the writers made it so clear it wasn't her fault that they're just scared for her to be messy or make her actually do anything bad? so far everything's either miscommunication or a mistake and not really her fault and she's so obsessed with being better but i feel like she's fine?? it'd make for a more interesting conclusion like if she was just a kid but had a bigger part in the brothers death i think
Season 1 was much more fleshed out and a lot of the characters felt so one-dimensional
this show is so underrated!! i def agree they should've done more with spider. hope harper and malakai get more storylines next season tho. love this show!!
I wish spider started reconsidering because of a friendship not a relationship but their chemistry was super cute
Zoe's 'boyfriend' Felix, was the main lead in " the family law" on SBS , did anyone recognise him
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I believe they lost the key story writers for season 1 coz season 2 was not tea at all imagine waiting so long for season 2 then you get this. Mxm yea no more heartbreak high for me it wasn't tea but 😒
thank you for saying this cause while watching, i realized i was bored asf even though so much was happening (whilst nothing was happening at all)☠️☠️ like wtf happened
This szn was good but their was smh off about it that I can't quite put my finger on...
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If aus is similar to nz then you can move out at 16 and get a benefit payment if you're in school.
I wish the parents were in more especially Darren's dad as he played the school bully in the original heartbreak high series
So I just paused at the scene where they show malakai write the letter and read the whole letter from there I have no patience literally
omg favourite girl w favourite show
Exactly
I love it and I want season 3 NOW
This show is such a gem! Really hope they do more with Sasha in the next season and give our girl Amerie a well needed break
Cash isnt the person driving. Chook is driving the car, our steering wheel is on the right here. That and theres no way a guy like chook is going to let someone else drive.
I wish they hadn’t spoiled the ending in the very first scene of the first episode😭
They didn't, they were trying to get viewers to think amerie and Harper caused the fire
ppl forgave spencer way too quickly😭
I think that I understand the Amerie of it all. Considering that the new guy was so upset with what she did he took batshit revenge, I think the show has been implying for a while that Amerie spearheaded as the ult mean girl of the school. Look at her friends, while cool, all have bitchy tendencies. And I think the point is that we are seeing Amerie now as learning to care more for people, but I think the hate she gets is because she didn't always used to be reasonable or kind.
Thinking back to season one, when Dareen almost didn't befriend her, it was clear he saw her as a bitch. The map was her and harper, yes, but it was a terrible thing to do. She abandoned Malakai (not like she knew what to do) but like Harper had said, its what she does. She bails. And then we saw that come full circle with new farm boy because he literally was bullied and isolated after amerie. While I Dont condone harm, I think that being pissed at someone who then you ignore then to have them literally try to break up (and suceeed) your relationship was enough reason to be pushed to the edge. So now we know she has hurt a lot of people, and she doesn't even remember it. I know even when consistently say something rude, I ruminate about it for a second. So I love the girl, but her going after Malakai after her moved on was terrible and showed me that she is trying but she still is very shitty. Main reason I was happy her and Spider didn't get together, just two people who need to grow and wouldn't have done that for each other. But, I love a messy protagonist so I am behind her all day !
Also ur so gorg 🥰
i was so surprised (and maybe unsurprised) that young people are really shipping missy and spencer. he's an incel, yes, and there is more to people than their incel identity lol...however it feels like almost like that amandla stenberg movie where hands touch where a black german girl falls in love with a nazi. it might be hot on paper and in fiction but in reality it's scary and you can absolutely still be a racist / incel and be with a woman of colour. that the writers paired the indigenous woman with an incel is just...why? but people love a polar opposites couple, i guess?
took the words right out of my mouth!!!
As extremely messy as this show is, i still love it, and a lot of the characters.
I still am on the fence about spider but he was still an asshole right up until missy saw what was going on and made him feel seen not when they started hooking up… then I think the process of improving only sped up when missy didn’t want to go pubic with him
What are your thoughts on Malakai this season???
Season was super good besides that last episode. It was pretty dumb imo.
After taking a couple days to digest this season I realized that this season... was not good. Amerie and Harper were suddenly friends again even after Harper put her through TRAUMA last season, Malakai and Amerie are together, but not really, after CHEATING ON HER last season, Missy and Spider were kinda thrown together because they are two extremes of opposite views, and I could've loved Ant and Harper if they had literally any screen time. Rowan was the most unnecessary plotline when it should have focused on what it does best: high school relationships and the lives of the characters. The only saving graces were Darren and Ca$h, Quinine, Jojo and Woodsy. Oh and also why did they ditch so many season 1 storylines? just... no.
THERE IS A SEASON THREE EXCUSE ME
Can you watch freak show 2017? Is beautiful❤