45 thoughts I had while watching the series Heated Rivalry

Maybe I am late to the party, but I only just recently watched Heated Rivalry. A question for those who have seen it: Is everyone accounted for, are we all okay, are we not on our deathbeds? Advice for those who have not watched it: Dim the lights in the room, turn the volume down on your laptop, put tissues on the coffee table (for crying or for something else), and be ready for the ride of your life. Below are 45 thoughts I had while watching Heated Rivalry for the first time. I say first time because I plan to know the first season by heart by the time the second one comes out. If you have any urgent obligations in the next few weeks, I do not recommend getting into this, because you will not be able to stop. Any activities scheduled before or after work will almost certainly have to be canceled, because you will need to watch this series at least several times in a row until you are ready for a break of just a few days. You are doing this at your own risk!

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1. I am only on the first episode and I have no idea what year, month, or season it is, but everyone is so beautiful that everything is fine.

2. Am I actually attracted to blond men?

3. If someone had told me a Russian accent would be hot, I would not have believed them.

4. Connor Storrie urgently needs to share his workout routine as soon as possible (and specifically for the glutes, if you know what I mean).

5. I loveee a bisexual king!

6. I do not know if it is global warming or summer arriving early, but my room is getting hotter.

7. I live with my mom, I really should turn the volume down.

8. This is exactly how I imagined Harry and Louis on tour while I was reading all those fanfics.

9. The music is perfectly chosen!!

10. This might sound strange, but I really, really want to be a gay man? Is it allowed to say that? At the end of the day, gender envy is a real thing.

11. I cannot wait to read all the books.

12. THIRD EPISODE! OH MY GOD!

13. So this is what can happen to a person if they decide to go for a run.

14. GIRL…

15. It was immediately clear to me that there was something between Kip and Scott, because those smoothies look disgusting, he definitely was not coming back every day because of that.

16. I never want to watch a series again where there is even the slightest possibility that something could go wrong.

17. Is this a revolution within the genre? Have we had enough of tragic queer characters?

18. All the things she said
All the things she said
Running through my head
Running through my head
Running through my head

19. How am I supposed to survive a whole year until the second season? I can still rewatch the first one every week and time will definitely pass faster.

20. What actually makes this series so addictive is the absence of misogyny.

21. WE DIDN’T EVEN KISS!!!

22. SVETLANA, THE WOMAN YOU ARE!

23. I am generally obsessed with the female characters! Rose, Elena, Svetlana, Yuna…

24. Okay, I need to take a thirty minute break and lie in silence before starting the fifth episode.

25. The first time sexting has not been cringe for me.

26. BRING BACK YEARNING!!!!!

27. Jokes and all the obsession with insanely hot hockey players aside, I think what makes this series so special is the perfect casting, the representation of emotional intelligence, and that unspoken quality from the lines of the adapted books that comes through perfectly in the characters’ gestures and movements.

28. I do not know what kind of drug they put in this, but I am not complaining.

29. Okay, I scrolled a bit on TikTok and everyone is obsessed! I thought something was wrong with me.

30. Only positive reactions and thunderous applause for Scott’s coming out scene is something that will mean a lot to many members of the community.

31. Everything is going the way it should, I am just not used to that. I was expecting some huge disaster.

32. Someone needs to hook me up to an IV, I am not okay.

33. You know a series is good when it has the potential to piss off straight men.

34. These timelines are still a bit confusing to me.

35. The thought of an eight year situationship sends me into a trance.

36. There is something truly wild about coming out to the man who has been your top for eight years.

37. The moment they started calling each other by their first names instead of last names, I knew everything would be okay.

38. The sixth episode deserves all the Oscars, Golden Globes, Golden Lions, and every award that exists, based on that ONE scene alone.

39. In the end, everything did turn out okay (yes, of course I was expecting some explosion until the very last minute that would blow them all up, or someone waking up from a coma that would destroy my already fragile idea of happy love).

40. Is this how heroin addicts in abstinence feel?

41. Male bodies are not usually a huge focus of my attention, but GOD DAMN!

42. I can already feel that my life before this series will, for a while at least, be like a deeply buried distant memory that I can only access through hypnosis.

43. Please tell me there is a secret seventh episode.

44. Why do I have an uncontrollable urge to listen to Die On This Hill by Sienna Spiro?

45. Not even the endless TikTok edits set to Taylor Swift songs can diminish my love for this series.