Heartstopper Season 2: Netflix release date, trailer, and cast with Joe Locke and Kit Connor

Netflix's adaptation of Alice Oseman's webcomic, Heartstopper, was one of last year's most compelling new series.

It tells the story of Charlie Spring, a gay secondary school student who falls in love with Nick Nelson, the kid he sits next to in his new form, as well as their friends Tao, Elle and Isaac.

It's been a tremendous hit with critics and fans alike, receiving a rare 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and generating a lot of buzz online.

As a result, it wasn't long before a second - and a third! - series of the show was confirmed by Netflix. Now, a little over a year since the show debuted, Netflix have released the first trailer for Heartstopper Season 2 ahead of its August release date.

Here is everything you need to know.

Will there be a Season 2 of Heartstopper?

The immensely joyous British coming-of-age romance has indeed been renewed for a second season - and a third! - by Netflix, it has been confirmed.

And there’s plenty of Hearstopper material to draw inspiration from for the upcoming future series.

The first season of Heartstopper is based on the first two volumes of the graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman; the series has a total of seven volumes.

Oseman told NationalWorld that she would “love there to be future seasons”, saying “there’s definitely room for that in the story.

“There are more books that we haven’t covered yet,” she added. “But we’ll just have to wait and see how season one does, I guess.”

It's been confirmed that Oseman will return as writer and executive producer on Seasons 2 and 3.

Is there a trailer for Heartstopper Season 2?

Yes, there is! You can watch it right here.

What could happen in Season 2?

Since further Heartstopper novels are available, we can get a good idea of what might happen in future series should they come to fruition.

Nick and Charlie begin to inform more people about their relationship in Volume Three of Heartstopper (chapter four of the webcomic).

This means Nick will have to tell more of his friends and family about his sexuality - something he battles with in the comic - and could signal the return of Olivia Coleman as Nick's mother, Sarah Nelson.

Season two might see the crew go on a school trip to Paris, with Nick, Charlie, Tao, Elle, Aled, Tara, and Darcy all making the trip to the French capital in the comics.

Season 2 will very likely start to address Charlie's eating disorder too.

Charlie regularly told people he wasn't hungry and didn't eat his lunch in Season 1, hinting at this.

Nick begins to notice this in Volume Three, and the book finishes with him researching eating disorders after the Paris trip.

Oseman told Digital Spy that if the show gets more seasons, it will explore themes of mental health because "that's something that's really important in the books" as Charlie and Nick grow.

“The challenge of writing Heartstopper is exploring those darker issues while keeping the tone so optimistic and hopeful,” Oseman said. “That has been, like, the struggle of writing it for me the whole way through.”

Oseman said the books have allowed her to be “very candid about mental health”and explore it in a “real way” that is not “intensely triggering or really dark and horrible to read or watch”.

“So that is very much my goal for the show,” Oseman added.

When will Heartstopper Season 2 be released?

Heartstopper Season 2 will be released on Netflix on Thursday 4 August, with all ten episodes of the new series available at once to stream as part of a boxset.

This is in keeping with the production schedule of the first series: filming took place in April and June of 2021 in Kent, after Netflix purchased the show's distribution rights, meaning Heartstopper took about a year from the start of filming until its eventual debut on the streaming service.

A mid-2023 release date was a fairly solid estimate as to when we might see Season 2.