Somebody gets it! Excellent read. "The fervent popularity of Heated Rivalry suggests that for many, the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

📸🇨🇦🏒 Connor Storrie on Late Night With Seth Meyers #HeatedRivalry #tvsky

Okay. Hear me out. Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams present at the Oscars, too. The new Best Casting award to show case how important casting is bc two months ago nobody knew their names, and now they're inventing ways to get them at the Academy Awards when they're TV stars. #heatedrivalry

So two sets of folks get auto-muted: people who kvetch about "time skips" in Heated Rivalry as if they're arbitrary and not integral to the plot & those who think it would be a fun twist if Shane violated Ilya's privacy and betrayed his trust by saying he didn't know Russian but really did.

Wow, everyone is addicted to this show

Never ever ever gets old. One of us!

Ooooo, excellent point. Requesting Unrivaled Release Day Vacay as we speak, plus maybe a recovery day. #HeatedRivalry

the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unrivaled-...

Gotta say that, despite the little book drop oopsie this weekend, whoever is coordinating the publicity-promotion rollout on Heated Rivalry is a badass! both masterfully shaping and expertly riding the swells of the audience love tsunami. Well done, PR flacks! (not a phrase I type often)

“I feel like I couldn’t kiss to my full potential because Shane can’t kiss like me” #HeatedRivalry

that quote does crack me up because this is literally the Shane Is So Fuckable The Hottest Dracula You’ve Ever Seen Will Blow Up His Whole Life About It show

Connor winks at the camera on the carpet at the 2026 #GoldenGlobes . via Variety

I love Oakland.

Reminder that #HeatedRivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams will be presenting at the #GoldenGlobes tonight.

"She looking a little taupe to me," joked ‘Heated Rivalry’ star Robbie G.K. about being on the 'red carpet' this awards season. On a serious note, he says "The Vancouver Canucks reached out. I think the New Jersey Devils reached out," on hopefully creating social change. variety.com/2026/scene/c...

TERFs are actually not allowed to enjoy #HeatedRivalry - please fuck off and go read Harry Potter fan fic or something.

Ilya was correct. The New Yorker IS boring.🙃

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Oh my god, I finally, finally found it! I can die happy now. #HeatedRivalry www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dwm...

And so the global enHeatening continues, muahahaha. #HeatedRivalry

Rewatching Heated Rivalry Ep5 and tearing up as usual when Shane sits beside Ilya in the Tampa bar and I remember that they've known each other for 8 years and never yet been able to so much as share a beer and friendly* conversation in public. So bittersweet. 🥹🥰 *now with added eyefucking

Shoutout to all the fine folks doing Heated Rivalry reaction videos for your public service. One of the nice things about our beloved beautiful little show becoming a monstrous global juggernaut is it engenders an almost infinite supply of reactions to help us cope with the inter-season yearning.

PSA: Anyone who is actively trying to avoid S2 spoilers of Heated Rivalry/ The Long Game, you should probably log off for at least 24 hours 😅

Excuse me while I roll my eyes so far that I have to smack my head to unstick them.

Wishing all our Ireland and UK comrades good luck and godspeed in this great life-changing endeavor. Don't forget to replenish electrolyes along the way! #HeatedRivalry

So right! Please put real or real-adjacent kissing onscreen, not tepid stage kissing, whenever possible. Sure, in some instances it's not feasible bc you can't aesthetically have actors' faces covered in spit in closeup, etc. But authentic hot kissing as the default is a huge plus of this show.

Never ever ever gets old. I feel like we're building a global romance zombie horde. The Ireland and UK wave has to be on the brink of hitting any minute now.

I MET A BOY WHO DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL HE DOESN'T KNOW IT YET BUT SOMEDAY HE COULD HAVE IT ALL LOOK AT HIM GO

Oh sweet fancy moses, I wandered over to main again to fulfill my civic duty and catch up on current events for a few after a couple of days away. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? I feel like either my tuning out or tuning back in is somehow destroying the world around me willy-nilly.

it does warm my heart that no matter how dark shit gets, there are still people making homoerotic fan edits set to disco music. so at least we have that as a society

My city fully embracing Heated Rivalry makes me so happy 🥹🥹🥹 Ottawa is a main character in season 2 and I’m so relieved to see tourism hopping on board ahead of time! “Birthplace of Shane Hollander” lol genius

heated rivalry fans rejoice!! tunes are coming your way beyondthecineramadome.com/news-and-fun...

Hear me out: if fictional characters like the Make Way for Ducklings and the Little Mermaid can have statues, surely we can find a way to erect a public monument in honor of Heated Rivalry's Rose Landry and Scott Hunter for their service to humanity. I know people would gofundme the fuck out of it.

I'll believe in a third period comeback on Pride Night... (This was, for the record between the first and second Seattle goals)

Anyway, my Heated Rivalry hot take is that it isn’t even that explicit, people are just homophobic and heterocentric

Authentic and powerful LGBTQ+ stories like “Heated Rivalry” enrich people’s understanding of themselves and our community. Christina Chang, who plays Yuna Hollander in the series, encourages parents whose children come out to them to celebrate their courage and embrace them with open arms.

A Heated Rivalry mini-obsession du jour: Alexei Rozanov, lying prick, can EXTRA go fuck himself bc when he whines at the funeral dinner that he spent the last 5 months caring for their dying father every day, that includes tuna melt day, when Ilya's dad called him in distress, all alone.

Oh, it's so twistedly exciting to see the gorgeous scourge sweeping over whole new lands and peoples this weekend and turning their brains to mush like ours! #HeatedRivalry

Today's #HeatedRivalry obsession: the evolution of everyone's favorite game show, Let's Make a Deal.

I know that there’s some Heated Rivalry fans here in the Boraskyline and I just found this IG reel from the barber of the Hudson guy from Heated Rivalry that he posted on his IG account on Christmas. It got me feeling emotional 🥹

There's no heated rivalry here. 🏒 Connor Storrie feels blessed to be a #SagAftraMember 💛

#HeatedRivalry For some reason today I am imagining hockey analysts’ response to Ilya signing with Ottawa. A star free agent party boy choosing to sign with a terrible team in a city not exactly famed for its nightlife and excess? The articles. The tweets. The podcasts. It would be amazing.

Holy moly.

Today's Heated Rivalry mini-obsession: the woman in the red bikini (red, really?) sitting on the pool edge swilling cocktails just behind Ilya when he's playing with the kids. She is not the mom of any of those kids, so we KNOW why she's sitting there. And I'm like, oh sister, move along.

just finished episode 5 of heated rivalry i’m a fucking mess