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i am convinced that the writers were on something this season because these storylines were CRAZY

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 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.

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.

The writers WERE WORKING like ugh 😩 every episode had me hooked

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

I have never seen so many mullets, one after the other, consecutively, in a row

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

EVERYONE WAKE UP HEARTBREAK HIGH GOT MENTIONED 🗣️ 🔥(literally such an underrated show tho ngl)

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...

I love principal woodsie. She is so funny.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

you are actually so valid for the Amerie take!! my best girl fr

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.

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 :)

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.

Different to never have i ever, Amerie's parents are not first generation migrants so culture background is rarely mentioned in her storylines

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.

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.

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 :((

I think the actor who played Darren's dad was unavailable, he's a pretty famous Australian actor (In Australia at least)

pookie's got a sponsorship i'm so proud

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.

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

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???

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 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 😭😭😭

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.

That season was FIRE Also, the representation of how painful an abortion is was amazing too

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

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 😭

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.

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

I love heartbreak high cause omg so many niche Sydney references! Like fr I live a minute away from Harry’s cafe de wheels

NAH BECAUSE I HATE THE FACT HOW AMERIE FORGAVE ROWEN WHEN HES LITERLLY A PSYCO, GASLIGHTER, MILIPUNATOR ETC???

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

I love this show but I hated how Amerie got blamed for EVERYTHING

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

I feel like they tried to do alot this season but kinda ran out of time at the end so just rushed everything off

The insane storyline was a callback to how truly bonkers neighbours and home and away storylines are

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.

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.

LOVED season 2 ! . SPOILER loved the Twist of Rowans little brother who occasionally appears is actually a ghost!

Voss was the gym teacher’s name. I hope he rots in jail.

spencer and his dynamic with missy was my favourite part of this season

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.

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

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 explained all of this so well and i agree so so much with this !!!

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

just saw a clip on tiktok and now i’m invested in your channel!!

missed the show reviews so much n just finished this show so v excited for this!

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

you have the best take on this - honestly 100% same!!

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.

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i’m an amerie defender for life

Zoe's 'boyfriend' Felix, was the main lead in " the family law" on SBS , did anyone recognise him

With spider I am just happy that spider changed because of missy and not really for her if that’s sense

I wish they hadn’t spoiled the ending in the very first scene of the first episode😭

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

Ugh Rowan is so gross I don’t want to see him ever again.

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 love it and I want season 3 NOW

Also ur so gorg 🥰

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.

I wish spider started reconsidering because of a friendship not a relationship but their chemistry was super cute

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

Season 1 was much more fleshed out and a lot of the characters felt so one-dimensional

omg favourite girl w favourite show

Hello, thanks for the nice video. Can you plaesa tell me which camera, microphone, light and tripod you are using in this video? Quality is perfect!

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

ppl forgave spencer way too quickly😭

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.

the last season was messy and real, this season was just messy 😭

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 !

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??

This szn was good but their was smh off about it that I can't quite put my finger on...

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 😒

Amerie is literally me

Darren is one of my least favourite characters. I hate how they treated Quinni when she unmasked and I also hate how they were trying to force Ca$h to have smex. Not a fan of them

What are your thoughts on Malakai this season???

As extremely messy as this show is, i still love it, and a lot of the characters.

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?

I loved this song season so much honestly, my only critique is the Rowan storyline. It was too obvious that his brother was just a ghost and he was bird psycho, I just wished they spent more time on Rowan and Ameries relationship because I honestly did not care for it and I feel like he overacted a little bit with the story of him getting bullied and Amerie not sticking up for him when they were kids. Was that really the only thing they could come up with? The reveal felt rushed and unconvincing also why was he trying to peruse a relationship with the person who he blamed for his brothers death?? That makes no sense. Honestly the series would’ve been better if it were just about Malakai and Amerie’s relationship but of course they had to add another character who doesn’t get enough development or screen time for us to properly digest who they are as a person and what their intentions are. I also don’t like how Amerie seemingly forgives Rowan after almost killing Harper and herself, that was stupid and unbelievable. He’s just sitting down in an ambulance like nothing happened.

Harper is the definition of doing too much

THERE IS A SEASON THREE EXCUSE ME

Can you watch freak show 2017? Is beautiful❤