I also think the discourse focuses too much on women wanting to watch guys fuck. Women also love HEARTSTOPPER which has almost no sexual content. They like romance. End of.

Heated Rivalry is currently the most watched show on HBO MAX in the US. 🏒

Going to take a seat and keep my mouth shut and-- please drop a comment if you can speak *on* this, not explain the world to women. 🙂 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...

Reminder that serious stories have to be written about this happening in a European Union country because politicians are still doing "maybe if you appease the fascists they'll go away on their own" foolishness.

That is why they're so eager that Paramount snags Warner Discovery. It's not like we're spoilt for choice now, but their vision is to make our choices Perviy Kanal (pro Putin), Rossiya 1 (pro Putin) and NTV (pro Putin), but for MAGA

I feel bad for UK and Ireland folks who are left out but also don't blame anyone who is finding... alternatives... to watch. If Warner Discovery really thinks waiting for the launch of HBO is the way to go- yikes. If the rights are still available and streamers and networks don't act - double yikes

The fact that even before the descent into the current bleakness there were so few easily connectable "Russia + LGBTQ pop culture" moments that song almost HAD to make an appearance at some point. The sound editing into the cover was sublime. #HeatedRivalry

Of course we continue to ride the wave of the show being flawless and the pinnacle of Canadian arts, but I will say that “Rose” did overtly rely on the assumption people already knew or have quickly picked up the book and understand why Shane goes from power bottom with eyes for Ilya only to _iykyk_

I quickly glanced and everybody is making the exact same joke but how could you not. 😂

Seems crazy to me that you could ride on the tail of queer media IMPORTED FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY being extremely successful for the same streamer your show is trying to find an audience on you’d instead choose to play the usually media & fans driven “my queer content is better than your queer content”

Give this playlist a listen: Heated Rivalry Official Playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

Obviously. Also, since HBO is just uploading the crave files, I'd love if they could add / keep the Quebec French audio track. #HeatedRivalry variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Des vampires expressionnistes aux pièges de Saw, du paranormal de Insidious aux violences raciales de Get Out, le genre horreur suit les métamorphoses de nos inquiétudes. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/PpZ

Man kann nicht “weil man ja interessiert bleiben muss” den Völkischen Beobachter abonnieren und sich gleichzeitig wundern, warum er so einen großen Einfluss hat. Es gibt keinen guten Grund, noch auf X zu sein.

So either they really are the monsters we think they or they fundamentally do not understand how video and archiving works.

It is just me or is Gay Media Inc. sudden predictable obsession with the side characters dragging something slightly ugly into the open we could’ve all predicted about their feelings on one of the main characters? #heatedrivalry

Drop and old person you're going to turn into in the future.

Bought some official Heated Rivalry merch. Forgot about the dumb clown's tariffs... GoFundMe going live after Christmas.

Please tell me even TERFs are slowly realizing that "Do women *really* need their own bank accounts?" or "Women should only be sold small city cars because they can't really drive" as serious talking points are only MOMENTS way?

Is it too much to ask that Gay Media Inc writers reviewing or recapping Heated Rivalry at least skim through the books? If they did— all those “totally unexpected things” are visible to many from miles away. The faithfulness to the book(s) is part of the show’s success.

Former NHL star says Heated Rivalry’s success ‘should open the door for first openly gay player’ www.gaytimes.com/television/f...

ELITE's Guzman, Miguel Bernardeau, is the star of the new Movistarplus+ crime drama TERRA ALTA and whoever told him to grow a beard for the role: Thank you. 🥰

Es ist vollkommen unverständlich, dass noch Medien, Behörden und Abgeordnete bei X aktiv posten. X ist eine Plattform, die rechtsradikale Inhalte pusht. Ihr Eigentümer ruft zur Gewalt auf, greift in Wahlkämpfe ein, zeigt den Hitlergruß, will die EU zerstören. Was muss denn noch passieren?

I mean, if you're familiar with the source you get exactly what you should've expected. Also, in fairness, Scott and Kip have an actual meet cute and Grindr didn't exist when Shane and Ilya first meet. 😂😂 ----- www.outsports.com/2025/12/4/24...

Can it be any clearer?

The publisher has moved a planned 2026 German translation release of HEATED RIVALRY to... next Thursday. While no German rights holder for the TV series has been announced, some fans are hopeful it will be a launch title for the German-language version of HBOmax in January.

Makes perfect sense that MLH merch pricing matches NHL merch pricing... But kinda cute that you can buy THE socks. #heatedrivalry heatedrivalry.com

Algorithm catching up to new “you might be interested in…” ads. 😂

Rusell Tovey: “Me aconsejaron no salir del armario, pocos actores se atrevían. Me siento orgulloso de haber sido uno de ellos” elpais.com/icon/2025-12...

Lordy, history books will not be kind to Gianni Infantino and #FIFA

250+ LGBTQ people were subjected to Electric Shock Aversion Therapy in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1972. That’s (literally) shocking, right? What’s also shocking is that so called ‘conversion therapy’ is still legal in the UK now. It’s beyond time that all LGBTQ conversion practices were banned.

🤭😂😂

For the majority of users the yearly upgrade cycle makes no sense. Name ONE THING - for most users, not for tech nerds - an iPhone 17 does considerably better than an iPhone 13… www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h...

Valid questions… ¿Morirá HBO con la compra de Warner por parte de Netflix? Las dudas televisivas tras la decisión que cambiará Hollywood ¿Podrá verse ‘Juego de tronos’ en Netflix? ¿Qué pasa con CNN o Eurosport? ¿Y con el ‘streaming’? - elpais.com/television/2...

You know the current admin will most likely approve this deal and while some may still cling on to the dream of "a better unified platform" I'm already dreading "See every episode on Netflix, watch the finale exclusively on HBO MAX (separate subscription required).

Evil to the rotten core... www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Gonna be staring at this particular phone all day 🥰😇

From the judgement… 'Only 0.05% of the female workforce had complained or raised a concern about the policy (i.e. the claimant) and it cannot therefore be said that all women considered that their dignity and privacy had been sacrificed.' #TransRightsAreHumanRights

When someone in the office tells you they are going to watch that new show on HBO as *a family* because they’re all “big into hockey” and you have to decide whether to wait and see how that plays out or say something…

I’m going to sound this alarm to remind everyone how fast things can change if we don’t pay attention. Before the tightening of the law in 2022, KINOPOISK, ivi, amediateka or more TV would have snagged up the rights and have a full Russian dub available same day as crave faster than you can say HBO.

Pour démontrer l’efficacité de son programme minceur, l'influenceur Dmitry Nuyanzin a voulu prendre 25 kilos à toute vitesse, 10.000 calories par jour. Il est donc mort d'une crise cardiaque. Cette affaire rappelle ceci : le like ne protège pas. ➡️ bit.ly/4pg7NcB

Really the most surprising thing about the media around #heatedrivalry is that Bell Media and the show’s creators must be fully aware that fan edits can only come from pirated material and they are fully on board with that happening.

If I somehow had the fortune to be absurdly rich because a Hollywood executive saw something in my mediocre writing and turned that mess into a franchise, I'd probably mostly have standing orders for charity donations, enjoy traveling and keep to myself. Not laser-focus on destroying a minority

When you've quickly read the books and you know the thing... 🥰 (And while I can understand the obsession with the particular novel they decided to adapt, that story would make a cute Canadian media industry budget friendly feature film, crave)

If you're watching #HEATEDRIVALRY on HBO max on a Roku it may appear, depending on your settings, there is Russian dialogue that is not translated. Turn on CC subtitles, rewind a little, a turn them back off, if you don't want English dialogue to be subtitled as well. The HBO max app is a nightmare

I’m old enough to remember the person bankrolling this authoritarianism decrying how authoritarian the UK had become. I thought it was a criticism, not an expression of joy.

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I am shocked - SHOCKED! - to hear that the police mishandled the Luigi Mangione case in any way!

Clearly both actors are committed to deliver performances that wouldn't look out of place in a Sean Cody or Next Door update, so what else do people want? Neither is going to date you, realistically. Especially not in the next few months. 😂😂 ew.com/heated-rival...

Germany is getting its own Parc Asterix. 🥰