Hellooo!
I want to put something Heated Rivalry themed on my birthday cake that’s short but funny and relevant & I wanted to come to the right place (here!). I have not read the books but I watched the TV show (many times) so nothing from future events please :)
Just purchased Heated Rivalry season one on Apple TV. Not sure if it’s available now on other platforms.
This one’s for Maverick-I mean Hollanov!
I thought I’d give Off Campus a try. Mainly to see how it compares to Heated Rivalry.
For Off Campus , the writing doesn’t have nearly the emotional impact though I did get briefly teary-eyed during the episode when Hannah and Graham become a couple. The sex scenes aren’t nearly as hot (well to be fair I much prefer gay sex). In the end, Off Campus feels a bit more formulaic. I do like Hannah’s character though and think she is pretty charming; Graham is attractive for sure but feels a little wooden.
All-in-all, I have liked Off Campus but I doubt I’ll rewatch it like I have Heated Rivalry. I also have no desire to read the books.
I've seen some videos and posts in other platforms where they point out some mistakes/errors in the show. Two that I remember is using an emoji when it wasn't yet available during the timeline of the show, and one of the ads in the rink is for a product that hasn't been launched yet. I guess I've come to that point in reheats where I'm starting to notice these details 😁 All for fun and giggles! Here's what I spotted: in the Shane-cooking-burgers scene, as Ilya was stepping down from the cottage, there appears to be a person walking in the background, outside the window. Very split second, you'll only see the head. Or maybe it's just lighting? But something definitely moved. Am I right?
Are there any you've noticed?
I can't wait to wear it out in the wild to see how many fellow loons I can spot :)
I genuinely need to know how many times people have re watch *Heated Rivalry* because I’ve crossed the “normal fan” line at this point 😭
Every re watch it somehow feels BETTER.
The tension. The banter. The slow emotional breakdown of Ilya Rozanov. The growth of Shane throughout the series. Absolute cinema.
I was reheating Ep. 5 and omg, the scene between Ilya and Alexei at their father’s wake and the monologue in Russian in the tunnel were a brilliant tour de force by Connor. (He was excellent for the whole series, but those 2 scenes really stand out).
Thinking ahead to Season 2, and having read The Long Game, he is going to have to bring so many powerful emotions to life, and in Russian no less!
Surely there’s something we can do to lobby either The Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs) or The Emmy’s or the effing government of Canada to grant him citizenship - something - anything - to award him for his brilliance? I loved that Hudson symbolically shared his award with Connor, but what I wouldn’t give to see him win something for his portrayal of Ilya. Thoughts?
My gf got me into Heated Rivalry, which we watched together.
It truly seemed like everyone and their grandpa/grandma knew what the show was and was obsessed. I remember seeing the actors everywhere, them dominating social media, Hudson Williams getting 3+ million views on Men’s Health (whereas the lead actor for this show is struggling just to get 100k views).
My bros at work and outside of work knew what Heated Rivalry was and watched it too.
I am getting none of that from Off Campus.
My girlfriend and I are currently on episode 5 and we’re finding the show serviceable? Like, it feels very CW-ish if that makes sense. Also, a lot of our friends, family, and co-workers aren’t evening tuning into the show like they did with Heated Rivalry.
Is it the young-ish vibe? Lack of chemistry between leads? What do you guys think?
"Jacob, I am in awe of how you made directing look so effortless.
I think I can speak on behalf of everyone that's everyone been lucky enough to work with you that you are the most thoughtful caring director, ever.
Thank you for writing a character that everyone needs in their life and for trus ting me with her.
Hudson, I love you. It took less than 24 hours to know that I found a lifelong friend. Finally, someone half as funny as me."
source: thecdnacademy
"To the powers that be who will try to reverse engineer this massive success:
The formula you're looking for is believing in the creatives who have stayed here, empowering them to tell the stories they want to tell, and giving them the resources to do so.
You'll get really good TV."
source: thecdnacademy
I guess based on this interview hr team won’t be submitting anyone especially connor for the international emmy’s? the only award connor would realistically be eligible for. I don’t know the tone throws me off and now people think jacob and the team hates him
Hey, everyone! Please be careful if you’re buying any Heated Rivalry merch… I am soooo angry rn. I checked in with an Etsy shop to see if they were LGBT friendly before I ordered a Heated Rivalry jumper they were selling and they flat out said no… shop name is Leaposh House
Brendan Brady on filming s2 of HR
"This is the only time we are gonna have for the long- you know, for a long period of time"
just taking note of the choice of words here. so many of the actor fans keep saying they want the boys to “free” from the show already.
We’ve cornplated so much that we now
- Agree that Shane and JJ both must have faced racism in the league and so him and Shane are better friends than Hayden and him
- Have entire inner arc’s for every single side character in the show
- Decided that Hayden is a terrible friend
- Decided that Hayden is mormon?
- Decided Jackie is a tradwife,
- Agree that Troy Barrett, as a closeted gay man, deserves to be ostracized for his homophobia while in the closet as if he didn’t do his best to make up for it, and didn’t do his best at the time to survive in a homophobic environment as a GAY MAN, because he chose a different survival method than shane due to his upbringing and chose to associate with a sexist homophobe to clear himself of any accusations, and promptly cut that friendship off when he realized that man was sexually violent towards women,
- Agree that Shane hates Troy even though this is never shown in the books
- Decided that Troy is racist and has used slurs before because Dallas Kent was racist? (neither of these things confirmed btw, completely hc)
- Agree that hollanov are infinitely freaky and that shane enjoys various extremely intense kinks despite them being pretty vanilla in the show
- Decided that ilya is a bottom even though he strictly tops in the books (100% support this btw)
- Decided that Hudson would top Ilya😛
- Created works where Hollanov are in an extremely toxic abusive relationship and where they both suck,
- Decided that THE Shane Hollander is every single NHL’ers crush (reasonable)
- Decided that hollanov who are very strictly monogamous like adding a third from time to time,
- Decided that Shane will resent Ilya for being captain of the centaurs,
- Decided that Ilya is a better captain than Shane,
- Decided that Ilya’s antidepressants give him ED
- Decided that he might have dementia in the future (Now why the fuck?)
- Agree that the not explicitly queer rookie of the centaurs has a model boyfriend named archie simmons and enjoys having extreme rough sex and threesomes with him,
- Agree that Luca Haas is hollanov’s child,
- Agree that Luca Haas is hollanov’s third,
- Agree that the metros have a russian rookie nicknamed Chex-Mix and that he teaches Shane russian and Ilya is jealous,
- Know that the maple leafs have a sports physician who has known that shane was gay and even tried to flirt with him, and then was set up with Rose’s costar Miles,
- Believe in Roselana even though they never interacted,
- Agree that Cliff Marleau is bisexual and has been to paris with ilya, and that he’s the only one who tops ilya
- Agree that Hayden has a crush on Shane,
- Agree that Shane is a slob who probably uses 3in1
- Agree that Ilya is a slob who doesn’t pick up his socks
- Agree that shane has a 10 step skincare routine
- Agree that Ilya is extremely tidy and has a whole curl routine for his hair,
- Agree that Ilya is a little european-racist (whatever the fuck that means)(unfortunately ik what it means)
- Agree that Shane and Ilya are transphobic
- Agree that shane is homophobic
- Agree that shane hates women
- Agree that shane sucks at eating box
- Agree that shane is great at eating box
- Decided that Ilya and Shane name their children Irina, Lily or Jane
- Promptly decided that this was a horrible idea and any fic that featured it was a dealbreaker,
- Decided that one of the pike kids struggles with depression and Ilya helps them
- Agree that irina was homophobic (likely but still sad)
- Decided that Irina probably wasnt a great mother due to her depression but ilya still remembers the best of her (again, likely but still sad)
- Decided shane had a severe ed
- Decided it wasn’t actually and ed but situational disordered eating due to control issues (team not ed truther btw)
- Agree that RR is a terrible writer who doesn’t get Shane and is rude to him
- Agree that she doesn’t understand racism AT ALL
- Agree that its absurd for ilya to be more aware about the dark part of hockey than shane, the asian canadian golden boy(gay)
- Agree that shane never fights
- Agree that that is absurd and of course he fights this is goddamn hockey COME ON PEOPLE
- Agree that shane should have sent “We didn’t even kiss”
- Agree that thats stupid and would have ended in disaster
- Agree that if shane had a group of girlfriends he would have dumped ilya
- Agree that we would never put up with Ilya’s bullshit
To be clear, i am very much not bashing any head canon or fic idea or oc, i enjoy them all DEEPLY. I only wanted to put into perspective truly how much discourse has gone into this show and how much time and energy we put into it. Also, if i missed anything lmk and if you don’t recognize a discourse, congrats you aren’t chronically online.
