Charlie faces a mental health crisis as he and Nick navigate their unlikely best friendship-turned-romance in the official season three trailer for Netflix’s queer drama Heartstopper, which dropped on Tuesday.
“Charlie, I’m really worried about you,” Nick, played by Joe Locke, says at one point as relationships and identity drama abound in the third season teaser for the British coming-of-age series. “I hate feeling like this. I don’t know what to do now,” Charlie (played by Kit Connor) responds in another scene, as his mental health issues, first hinted at during the second season, become a major theme for the new season.
Their friends Tara (Corinna Brown), Darcy (Kizzy Edgell), Tao (William Gao) and Elle (Yasmin Finney) also show their own angst over becoming young adults, just as young love and sex and university ambitions figure in their lives.
The third season trailer also introduces Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey doing a guest appearance as Jack Maddox, Charlie’s celebrity crush.
Heartstopper, Netflix’s adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels about a pair of teenage boys falling for each another while at school, quickly became a word-of-mouth hit for the streamer when it premiered in April 2022.
The stolen glances and furtive smiles that Charlie and Nick showed in the first two seasons grow to become a kiss on the rugby field, as revealed by the third season trailer, even as they still struggle to put into words how they feel towards one another at their all-boys grammar school in the U.K.
Heartstopper season three will premiere on Netflix Oct. 3.
