#heartbreak high netflix reboot

[nineteeneightywhore]

not to be dramatic but if netflix pull that cute little trick where they cancel an interesting and diverse show with a cult following on its second season for heartbreak high i will be sending bomb threats to netflix hq

[lansangprincess]

SEASON 3 HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED AS THE FINAL SEASON

[ultraweirdgirl13]

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See cause now I'm depressed AND pissed off

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

talked about heartbreak to people irl and almost all of us agreed that this is accurate to aussie high school but also not

like it feels like stuff that would happen across many high schools but it's been thrown into one (especially a problem for season 2). Also the lack of uniforms screw up the aussie-ness of it

it could rep aussie so much better if it wasn't trying to be a copy of Sex education and euphoria

[betsyjdobson]

Josh Heuston as Dusty

in Heartbreak High (2022)

[fics-n-stuff]

In preparation for Heartbreak High season 2 TOMORROW, and following up on this post from a year and a half ago I made about why Spider should have a redemption arc, I have another lukewarm take to present: if Spider deserves redemption then so does Sasha.

I thought about making this post ages ago, not long after the original Spider post, but I never got around to writing it out... til now! Here we go!

After season 1, I was seeing A LOT of Sashsa hate, much of which I agreed with but some that definitely went too far. I saw a lot more people calling Sasha irredeemable than I saw of anyone speaking that way about Spider or Dusty. I hate Sasha as much as the next HBH fan, but it is undeniable that if we give Spider enough grace to encourage his redemption we should extend the same courtesy to Sasha; if we have enough faith in the show to handle the nuance of his redemption then we should have faith in it to be able to handle her redemption too.

Sasha is not trying to be a bad person, she genuinely believes (in my opinion) that she is trying her best to be a good person. The problem is she's confusing virtue signalling and "wokeness" with actually being a good person, and that makes her behave like a bitch. What it all boils down to, just like with Spider, is attitude. What they need to do is pretty similar as well; Spider needs to start paying attention and empathising with the experiences of people around him and Sasha needs to realise that what she thinks is genuine empathy and compassion is really just performative and does not make her a good person. They both need to stop viewing themselves as victims, they both need to be more willing to hear other people out, and I believe that they both have the capacity to change.

The two things I hated most about Sasha were:

Her relationship with Quinni and the way she treated Quinni during that time, as I'm sure most (if not all) of you will agree. That whole episode with the book signing (episode 6: "Angeline") makes me so mad, and it is a perfect example of how her empathy is not genuine. When Sasha is told that Quinni is autistic, her immediate response is "I need to do some more research" instead of "I need to ask Quinni what she needs and what she wants". Right there, she fails to empathise with Quinni as a person because she's too busy thinking about how she should be empathising with Autistic People as a whole and thereby completely misses the point. In the same vein, we the viewers all see Sasha's ableism when it comes to Quinni and how she fails to treat Quinni like an equal, but Sasha is so convinced that she is a good person because she supports all of the right ideas that she fails to see when she's falling short when it comes to the real people actually in her life. (Even at the end of this post when I have explained why Sasha deserves redemption, just know that I absolutely DO NOT think that Sasha and Quinni should EVER get back together.)

The way she just drops people when the social tides turn against them. We see her do this with both Amerie and Harper, completely dropping them as friends as soon as everybody is mad at them and not even speaking with them first or even allowing them a chance to just talk to her. This still makes me incredibly angry. Sasha had every right to not want to be friends with both Amerie and Harper after the things that happened, but the way she cut them out of her life so completely without a second thought makes me seethe. Now, there are layers to this. First we have the double-edged-sword of school social hierarchy and Sasha's "woke" attitudes. I personally believe that Sasha definitely dropped her friends because she didn't want them to tank her social status (like lots of teenagers would, horrible as it is), but she justified it to herself by rationalizing it like a political/social justice issue. Amerie did something bad = Amerie bad = I won't talk to Amerie anymore. She treats the ending of a friendship like a corporate boycott. What she says to Harper in episode 6 ("I'm not gonna let you suck me into your negativity black hole. You're an emotional vampire, Harper. I watched a whole YouTube video on it.") is a shining example of both how much of a bitch Sasha can be to the people around her and how she justifies that behaviour to herself. They are bad so I don't have to treat them well. And sometimes that line of thought is genuinely justified, but people are not that black and white and to cut ties with someone you considered a close friend without even talking to them or allowing them to even try and explain or apologise is peak bitch behaviour if you ask me. Especially when it's so clear that they are struggling and have nobody else to turn to.

You may have gathered that both of these points link back to the same thing: her hollow social activism. I am not saying here that she doesn't actually care about any of the causes she supports, nor am I saying that no good has been achieved through her various activist endeavors, but I really think that she approaches it all in the wrong way. Sasha tries so hard to say the correct thing, support the correct causes, and be on the correct side of things in a widespread social view that, not only does it create an element of performance and virtue-signalling, but she just doesn't take the time to actually learn and consider things without looking so far out. To reverse a common phrase, she can't see the trees for the forest, (i.e. she's so focused on the bigger picture she can't see the closer points). I'm sure she really does agree with all of the political and social justice causes that she supports, but because that's all she thinks about it creates the insufferable holier-than-thou attitude that makes her such a bitch while also leaving this vacuum where she fails to apply these ideals to her real life. Empathy is research, compassion is protesting, and when someone fucks up and people turn on them then it's fine to just turn on them too because they did a Bad Thing, no matter what else is happening.

But the door to redemption is open for Sasha and, just like with Spider, I want to see what the writers do with it. I think the big bus fight in episode 6 and Sasha finding out that Quinni has gone non-verbal in episode 7 could serve to open her eyes as to how uncompassionate she's been to the people around her. If she gets clued in to what happened with Harper she may reflect on how poorly she treated her while she was dealing with all of that trauma and realise that she isn't as much of "an empath" as she believes she is, and that just might be enough to open the door for some well needed introspection. Progress would probably be kinda slow, like I said in my post about Spider most people with any kind of strong belief tend to get defensive when challenged, but, also like I said about Spider, if people hold Sasha accountable then change can 100% happen. If the people around her continue to show her that she is not the good and just person she thinks she's being but rather that she's being a bitch and not offering any support or understanding to the people around her, if they can show her that her attitude is causing them harm, then I think that has the potential to open her mind and allow her to learn to fix those problems.

[kkatastrophic]

help

You don't know awkward until you sit between your parents while watching Season 2 of heartbreak high. (MORE SPECIFICALLY THE MUSHROOM SCENE.)

[anonynaomi]

we’re about to be SO BACK!!!!

if you haven’t watched Heartbreak High yet, you still have time because it’s a GREAT show and we need the views. highly highly recommend for great representation.

[nono-c-wam]

My thoughts on Heartbreak high season 2 (spoilers) :

The writers forgot to remember important information from the 1st season

The majority of the issues could have been resolved through communication

Amerie is still hated by writers (leave her alone, she can't have any good moment in her life)

Most of the storyline were already concluded in the first season (Darren dealing with Cash asexuality, Quinni not liking how people treat her)

The new characters introduced are annoying af, bring back Peter Rivers

That whole storyline about the PE teacher was useless and the only thing it shows is that Woodsy doesn't give a shit that because of him the students were lost in a forest (and Quinni nearly died)

Quinni and Malakai were the best characters of that season (but that was also the case in the first season so nothing surprising)

[navs-bhat]

Okay so I recently saw a post where someone was comparing him to Bowie

And now I can't find it

Please help

I need to show it to my friend

:| :)

[lansangprincess]

reblog to give a lil kiss on the forehead mwa mwa smooch˖* ༘ to the writers of heartbreak high

we give so much well-deserved love to the cast but lemme just give a quick shout out to the writers for their amazing fking work<3

[ultraweirdgirl13]

HEARTBREAK HIGH S2 COUNTDOWN

NUMBER 13: SPIDER WHITE

Spider is... a character. An annoying, selfish, POS character of whom I really hate. However I will say that to me, he probably has more depth than than any of the other characters.

The whole "I'm in love with Amerie but I can't articulate my feelings correctly so I'll just ignore her up close and pine over her from afar" schtick really did something for me in season 1. It was extremely amusing to me. That, topped with his psychological need to be the center of attention, regardless of whether that attention is good or bad (MAINLY BAD) really speaks volumes. I didn't hate it. I am, however, concerned with his home life. (My headcanon is that he's REALLY REALLY RICH, but was raised by nannies who couldn't tell him no.) (THAT, or his's parents are actual assholes who pay no attention to him unless he's done something wrong.)

Once again, this is one character who would benefit from some good ol' fashioned character development. And based on the way he was looking at Missy, that might just be coming. I genuinely believe that Missy has the capabilities of loving... this.

Then again, maybe he doesn't deserve redemption. Every successful tv show has the one asshole that everyone knows is an asshole, but they love them for it anyways. Plus, I wanna here more people say this

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

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the references the references

[betsyjdobson]

Josh Heuston as Dusty

in Heartbreak High (2022)

[the-mind-of-a-geek]

Soooo ready

Now that's canon i'm here patiently waiting for Malakai's bi storyline in s2

[lady-of-snails]

ok so i know i haven't posted fic in a while (i swear im trying) but you know who HAS posted something!! my beautiful lovely partner!!!!! so if ur into heartbreak high (netflix reboot) and ace representation pls check out her fics here and here i personally think they are great and that's 100% unbiased