Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman has mentioned she’s “feeling optimistic” in regards to the present’s future though 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’s one other season on the best way.
Throughout a current dialog with fellow creator William Hussey on the Waterstones Youngsters’s Ebook Competition, Oseman gave an replace on the present’s future.
“I’m working very onerous behind the scenes to get us a renewal for Heartstopper. It’s nonetheless ongoing,” she mentioned. “We don’t have a ultimate reply but, however there are such a lot of folks behind the scenes who’re working actually onerous to make it occur. We’re feeling optimistic, we’re feeling hopeful, and hopefully we’ll have the ability to share some information about that someday quickly. Fingers crossed.”
The creator is at present engaged on the ultimate sixth quantity within the graphic novel sequence, which is able to kind the premise of any potential fourth season.
Oseman has beforehand mentioned that if a fourth season is made, it is going to be the present’s final.
“I’ll most probably be drawing quantity six concurrently whereas writing the season 4 scripts, even when we haven’t been renewed,” she mentioned 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 folks expertise the top 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 mentioned when requested a couple of fourth season. “For now, we’re simply sort of making an attempt to get pleasure from what we’ve got made. Each time we return [to Heartstopper], it’s like, ‘Nicely, this could possibly be it.’”
In a four-star evaluation 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 advanced right into a Gen Z Skins – nobody is asking “we could perform a little key?” like Charli XCX – its earlier trace of tweeness has gone and it does really feel extra actual.”