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A Queer-Friendly Series That Will Get Your Hearts Beating Again (HEARTSTOPPER)

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Based on the hit WebToon comic turned bestselling graphic novel by Alice Oseman, this all-new Netflix adaptation of this queer phenomenon has finally reached our screens. After years of gaining such a loyal fanbase for Charlie and Nick, the infamous comic strips are now in a live-action setting to introduce this story to more audiences, ultimately expanding the fandom, or at least that's the hope. Heartstopper is a British rom-com told in eight 30-minute episodes... and it is not enough. The show centers around Charlie and Nick at Truham Boy's school. Charlie has been recently outed as gay at his school and constantly suffers being bullied by schoolmates while Nick is the star rugby player who ends up sitting with Charlie on the first day back at school. The two talk, connect and slowly fall for each other throughout these eight episodes.  In the midst of their romance blooming, we meet Elle, who is trans and recently moved from Truham to the neighboring girls' school, Hig

Enough Magic and Secrets To Return To The Wizarding World (Fantastic Beasts and The Secrets of Dumbledore)

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Potterheads Rejoice! It's time to return to the Wizarding World as the secrets of one of the most famous wizads are finally revealed. After the first sequel where J.K. Rowling brought up so many new plotlines and a boatload of questions that confused her plethora of fans, there was some worry about whether the rest of the franchise would make it or ruin the 'magic' or that's how everyone summed it up, despite the Johnny Depp legal issues and Rowling's own controversy with transphobia.  The third installment of the Fantastic Beasts brings back Newt, Dumbledore, and the gang for yet another adventure against the notorious Gellert Grindelwald in furthering his plan to heed war between the magical and muggle worlds. Taking place a year later (or 3 years later according to reports. Just something to confuse you before entering the cinema) after Crimes of Grindelwald , this sequel bids itself as a heist film within the Harry Potter universe. But the real question is, doe