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Heartbreak High is an Australian comedy drama streaming television series created for Netflix, by Hannah Carroll Chapman. It is a reboot of the 1994 series first screened on Network Ten.[2][3] The series follow the students and teachers of Hartley High as they navigate racial tensions in Australia, high school romances, and all sorts of teen angst.[4] The show premiered on 14 September 2022.[5] A month after it was released, the show was renewed for a second season.[6]

Heartbreak High
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Genre	Comedy drama
Created by	Hannah Carroll Chapman
Starring	Ayesha Madon James Majoos Chloe Hayden Asher Yasbincek Thomas Weatherall Will McDonald Josh Heuston Gemma Chua-Tran Bryn Chapman-Parish Sherry-Lee Watson Brodie Townsend Chika Ikogwe Scott Major Rachel House
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producers	Carly Heaton Sarah Freeman Jeroen Koopman Tarik Traidia Brian Abel Michael Jenkins Megan Palinkas
Production locations	Sydney, New South Wales
Cinematography	Simon Ozolins Drew English
Running time	45–52 minutes
Production company	Fremantle Australia & NewBe[1]
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14) – present
Chronology
Related	Heartbreak High (original 1994 TV series)

Premise

After a map detailing the sexual exploits of Hartley High's students is discovered graffitied on the wall of the school, all of the students whose names were on it are forced to attend a new sexual education course called the Sexual Literacy Tutorial (SLT, pronounced "sluts" by the students). The map's creator, Amerie Wadia (Ayesha Madon), becomes a social outcast after taking the fall for its co-author, Harper McLean (Asher Yasbincek), who has stopped talking to her following a tragedy at a music festival they attended.

Cast

Main

• Ayesha Madon as Amerie Wadia, a brash, working-class Indo-Australian girl who becomes a pariah at Hartley High. [7]
• James Majoos as Darren Rivers, a queer and non-binary student who befriends Amerie.
• Chloe Hayden as Quinni Gallagher-Jones, Darren's lesbian best friend who is autistic.[8][9]
• Asher Yasbincek as Harper McLean, a punk girl who has had a falling out with Amerie
• Thomas Weatherall as Malakai Mitchell, a bisexual Bundjalung basketball jock new to Hartley.[10]
• Will McDonald as Douglas “Ca$h” Piggott, an asexual eshay, drug dealer and food delivery driver
• Joshua Heuston as Dustin “Dusty” Reid, a bisexual musician involved with Harper.[7]
• Gemma Chua-Tran as Sasha So, a Chinese-Australian
• Bryn Chapman-Parish as Spencer “Spider” White, the class clown
• Sherry-Lee Watson as Missy Beckett, an Indigenous student involved with Sasha
• Brodie Townsend as Anthony “Ant” Vaughn, an affable, big-hearted student
• Chika Ikogwe as Josephine “Jojo” Obah, English teacher at Hartley High
• Scott Major as Peter Rivers, Darren's father, who reprises his role from the 1994 series.
• Rachel House as Principal Stacy "Woodsy" Woods, the performatively woke school principal at Hartley High

Recurring and notable guest stars

• Isabella Mistry as Chaka Cardenes, who reprises her role as a Salvadoran-Australian from the 1994 series
• Ben Oxenbould as Justin McLean, Harper's dad
• Justin Smith as Jim the Maintenance Man
• Sandy Sharma as Huma Wadia, Amerie's mother
• Tom Wilson, Kye McMaster and Ari McCarthy as Chook, Tilla and Jayden, Ca$h's friends
• Maggie Dence as Nan, Ca$h's grandmother
• Stephen Hunter as Coach Arkell
• Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Kurt Peterson, who reprises his role from the 1994 series
• Natalie Tran as Rhea Brown, a local author

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date [11]
1	"Map Bitch"	Gracie Otto	Hannah Carroll Chapman	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
A young version of Amerie and Harper meet when they were 5. They have been best friends since and now they are high school students at Hartley High. Their somewhat weird hobby of watching people’s relationships from the side-lines led to the start of the infamous “incest map” on an abandoned stairwell wall at school. She and Harper filled the wall with details of their classmates’ real and rumored sexual escapades. In the present, Amerie is heading to school, ready for a new year at school but Harper has gone MIA since a festival they went to a couple of weeks ago. This turns out to be the least of Amerie’s problems as her classmates find out about the map. The students are immediately summoned to a parade and during the scolding speech by the principal, Harper makes an entrance. She has changed her whole look and is angry and ignoring Amerie. After the parade, Amerie is called to the principal’s office, she is busted but she decides to take the fall alone. Later in the day, she finally gets to Harper but she is pissed and refuses to talk to her Harper remembers that they had a fight at the festival but her memory of the night is blurry. She tries to talk to Harper once again but she turns physical and Amerie ends up with a nosebleed. The day doesn’t get any better as all the students named on the map are summoned to class. Among them is a new student Malakai, the school’s gorgeous heartbreaker Dusty, a non-binary kid named Darren and their friend Quinni, Ca$h the school eshay, Spider the Class Clown, Anthony, Harper, and Amerie are also joined by mutual friends Sasha and Missy. They get to attend a special sex education course, courtesy of the map. It is a Sexual Literacy Tutorial oft abbreviated to SLT and pronounced "sluts" by the students and they have no choice but to attend it twice a week. The class will happen on their time and their English teacher Jojo will head the class. She comes off as a modern progressive teacher and wants to be real with the kids about sex. The kids are not particularly excited to hear about their new special class and it reignites their anger towards Amerie. In the meantime, the news about the incest map has reached local new stations. At the end of the day, the kids go home. Darren is struggling at home with a stepdad who doesn’t understand their sexuality and gender identity. They are also sleeping with a boy from another school. Amerie is ostracized by her friends and she tries to reinvent herself by cutting her own fringe. It is a disaster and Darren and Quinni step up to help her. They are the only ones who will talk to her. They convince her to take them to a cemetery party. At first, Amerie is scared to go but once they arrive it is not as bad as she imagined. She even gets a kiss from her long-time crush Dusty before leaving. The party ends after a police raid and the episode closes with a hint that maybe there is a new incest map. According to the person writing it, “Dusty f*cked Harper.”
2	"Renaissance Titties"	Gracie Otto	Matthew Whittet & Hannah Carroll Chapman	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
3	"Eetsway"	Neil Sharma	Marieke Hardy	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
4	"Rack Off"	Neil Sharma	Meyne Wyatt	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
5	"Bin Chicken"	Adam Murfet & Jessie Oldfield	Thomas Wilson-White	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
6	"Angeline"	Adam Murfet & Jessie Oldfield	Natesha Somasundaram	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
7	"The Sheriff"	Gracie Otto	Megan Palinkas & Matthew Whittet	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)
8	"Three of Swords"	Gracie Otto	Hannah Carroll Chapman	14 September 2022 (2022-09-14)

Production

The series was announced in December 2020, and filming began in November 2021.[12][13][14]

The TV series was mostly filmed in the suburbs of Marouba and Matraville of New South Wales between late 2021 and early 2022.[15]

A second season was announced on 19 October 2022.[16][17]

Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the series an approval rating of 100%, with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10, based on nine critics.[18] On the review website IMDb, the series holds an average score of 7.7 out of 10, as of October 15, 2022.[19] The show received praise for its racial, sexuality, gender and neurodivergent representation, realism towards modern teenhood, costumes and visuals.[20][21][22] It was also positively compared to other popular modern teen dramas (which viewers found it very similar to), including Euphoria, Never Have I Ever and Sex Education. Alex Henderson of The Conversation said that the show addressed serious topics like substance abuse, discrimination or youth crime, but still uses comical moments and avoids cliché moments whilst showing mistakes made by the characters.[23] Mitchell Adams of The Sydney Morning Herald commented on the representation of autism, saying "scenes where Quinni feels overwhelmed just sitting on a bus, or being at a party while forcing herself to mask how she feels in order to better fit in and not upset people, depict a pain neurodivergent people know all too well".[24]

Accolades

Award	Year	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
AACTA Awards	2022	Best Drama Series	Heartbreak High	Pending	[25]
		Best Actor – Drama	James Majoos	Pending

References

External links

• Heartbreak High at IMDb 
• Heartbreak High on Netflix

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