Ron Does Stuff

My gash it’s been a literal weeks since I watched this show because I kept pushing it back either because of work or other things I blogged about. But I’m back watching these homosexuals from the United Kingdom!

In the last episode, Tara and Darcy had a poignant heart to heart with each other in the room where they first started making out. At the start of this episode ominously titled “Bully”, we see Charlie sprucing up in front of a mirror, unaware of whatever it is that’s going to happen to him in this episode. Which probably isn’t good considering the episode title.

When Charlie tells his sister that he’s going to be watching a movie with Nick and his friends, I immediately know that this is going to be adapting that plot point from I think Heartstopper Vol. 2 and let’s see if we’re going to see Nick punch a guy!

I feel bad for the actor who plays Harry in this one because he really does play the character as an irritating jerk and I dunno if he ever got flack for it like how audiences had a hard time separating Princess Punzalan from Selena in Mula Sa Puso.

And Ben is also in the group, which I think wasn’t the case in the book? I honestly can’t remember anymore. But either way, it’s two bullies that Charlie and Nick have to deal with. Will Nick be punching two people?

Let’s skip over Nick calling Charlie “Char” because I didn’t like that in the book either but I do like how this episode is already setting up Charlie’s further problems down the line. Of course, they have the luxury of already having the story mapped out for them but whatever. Snaps for them still for laying the breadcrumbs for that storyline later on.

We get to see the whole Harry being a jerk to Charlie thing that I remember from the books but I definitely do not remember Ben confronting Charlie in the parking lot, which genuinely made me worried a little because Ben just appeared from behind him like that. Although I do remember reading that dialogue that Ben says so I guess they just rearranged stuff? Or maybe I just completely forgot that this also happened here! Either way Ben is a jerk who is unfortunately so handsome and I would, sorry about it.

We then get the Nick and Harry confrontation scene and Harry definitely says a lot more things than I remember from the book and Nick punches him which of course I find hot because I am a broken person who needs therapy.

We then get Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman driving Nick home and already knowing that her son is at the very least, a homosexual. Always happy to see Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman!

The encounter with Harry and Ben of course rattles Charlie, who goes to school the next day in a sort of daze. Harry doesn’t make it any better when he continues being a dick when he sees Charlie and Charlie sees Nick with a black eye because of the fight with Harry. And here we get a really nice scene between Nick and Charlie where both Kit Connor and Joe Locke put in the work.

Another thing that I like about this episode and which the books didn’t really do a good job on is expanding the characters of Tao and Elle. It also does a better job of…articulating, I guess? the little cracks and layers in Charlie and Tao’s friendship. And of course it goes without saying that it does a better job with Tao and Elle as well.

That Harry and Tao fight definitely didn’t happen in the books, as well as Tao turning on Charlie. It’s a difficult watch but it certainly sets up everything else that Charlie’s going to go through so much better than the books.