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The Only Thing I’m in the Mood for This Summer Is Teen Drama

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Heartstopper isn’t something I want to exist in a vacuum—to avoid flattening queer identity into something inherently platonic and easily digestible for a straight audience, there needs to be room for decidedly adult LGBTQ+ stories too—but it is a show I’m glad to see on the air and one that would have made me feel a lot better about my nascent baby-gay feelings if I’d been watching it alongside The O.C. in Alina’s rec room. Like The Summer I Turned Pretty, Heartstopper is based on a book—the graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman—and TBH, maybe that’s a formula of sorts for a teen drama I absolutely cannot stop watching.

Of course, it’s impossible to talk about teen dramas without mentioning the return of Stranger Things, but I’ll be honest: I am not really about that life this season! No spoilers, but if you’ve seen the show, you know the tone isn’t always light, and I am—quite frankly—feeling shell-shocked enough by the pressures of existing on earth as an adult to need the soft, hazy-hued comfort of teen dramas that rotate almost entirely around romance rather than supernatural forces. Luckily, though, there’s room for all of it—the softness and the bleakness. (And I do intend to finish Stranger Things as soon as conditions improve.)

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