Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman has stated she’s “feeling optimistic” in regards to the present’s future regardless that 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 best way.
Throughout a latest dialog with fellow writer William Hussey on the Waterstones Youngsters’s Ebook Competition, Oseman gave an replace on the present’s future.
“I’m working very arduous behind the scenes to get us a renewal for Heartstopper. It’s nonetheless ongoing,” she stated. “We don’t have a last reply but, however there are such a lot of individuals behind the scenes who’re working actually arduous 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 writer is at the moment engaged on the ultimate sixth quantity within the graphic novel sequence, which can kind the premise of any potential fourth season.
Oseman has beforehand stated that if a fourth season is made, will probably be the present’s final.
“I’ll almost certainly be drawing quantity six concurrently whereas writing the season 4 scripts, even when we haven’t been renewed,” she stated on Patreon.
“And the opposite factor that I’ve to remember is that I actually, extraordinarily, devoutly want the amount six e-book to return out earlier than season 4 comes out, so individuals expertise the tip 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 shifting elements and everybody’s so busy,” Locke stated when requested a few fourth season. “For now, we’re simply form of making an attempt to take pleasure in what we’ve made. Each time we return [to Heartstopper], it’s like, ‘Nicely, this could possibly be it.’”
In a four-star assessment of Heartstopper, NME wrote: “In its third and greatest 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.”