Heated Rivalry (2025 - )

[4everchan]

Heated Rivalry. (2025).

Heated Rivalry (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 9.1 | Drama, Romance, Sport

| TV-MA

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It's indeed hot in that show. Very much so. I am hooked.

Pro hockey players and the "forbidden" topic of gay hockey players.

Actors are very good (and incredibly handsome)

There is a lot of "action" in the series but it's well-done with good taste.

I have watched the first three episodes twice already.

Highly recommended by a fine connoisseur of handsome men .

 

[4everchan]

Upon some more research
There will be 6 episodes for the first season. There is no confirmation that there will be a second season however the buzz created around the series leads one to think that there will be.

First 3 episodes are out already, the next 3 will go live the 12th, 19th and 26th of December.
Merry Xmas to you all

 

[4everchan]

@CellarDweller : I think you would like this show

 

[skatingguy]

 

[4everchan]

I have Crave free (phone plan) until July LOL... I will need to get a new plan so I can get Crave for free again.. just so I can watch this show.

I am severely hooked. How I wish this kind of series had been available to me as a young gay man. Everything was so much more difficult just 20 years ago, even in Canada, when it comes to representation... and now we have a hit series like this one.

Also, everyone is talking about the intimacy and the chemistry but the acting.. WOW. Their facial expressions are so precise that I feel that I understand everything they are thinking. These two actors could go very far.

 

[Blades of Passion]

Episodes 1 and 2 are total amateur hour, aside from Connor Storrie's great performance. Hudson Williams is a vacant actor and there's zero depth and sense of pacing.

Episode 3 is great (and hit close to home), with a surprising pivot to totally different lead characters who have a real relationship and where both of the actors sell the romance and heartbreak, particularly Francois Arnaud.

Episode 4 goes back to the previous couple, where Hudson remains bad and so do some of the edits, in some kind of sad solidarity with him. The story becomes slightly more interesting and that club scene is good, but really it's only Connor's performance keeping this worth watching.

 

[4everchan]

Thanks for sharing your opinion. You don't have to watch a show if you don't like it. . I disagree with you (what a surprise!), on Hudson Williams. His facial expressions are great. I feel I can understand with his non-verbal language, everything that cannot be said and is not said, which is exactly the point of this whole series at this time in their relationship. It's extremely difficult to carry a storyline and emotions, just with micro-expressions. It's not a series with tons of dialogue, yet I feel deeply driven into the characters universe. Considering the rave reviews they are getting, how they are breaking the internet and how quickly the series got renewed, I don't think a few negative opinions will hurt them

 

[4everchan]

Not sure this will work

Reel from Facebook

At Bell Centre, during pride NHL hockey night, they were showing Heated Rivalry.

12K views · 236 reactions | During their Pride Night game last night, the Montreal Canadiens played the trailer for Heated Rivalry on the video board at the Bell Centre! They’re the first NHL team to acknowledge the show since its premiere. 🔥 🎥: @g

During their Pride Night game last night, the Montreal Canadiens played the trailer for Heated Rivalry on the video board at the Bell Centre! They’re the first NHL team to acknowledge the show since...

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[skatingguy]

Hudson Williams is very different from the character Shane Hollander, and this is a good demonstration of how chaotic Hudson is compared to how controlled the character of Shane is.

 

[4everchan]

LOL.. I cannot believe I watched this entire clip.

 

[Blades of Passion]

Episode 5 was good but it's annoying how the couple from Episode 3 is suddenly brought back for a huge climactic scene, with literally no development at all since then. They weren't even together anymore last we saw. We jump from that into "everything is perfect between them now, the end". The show has such a strong premise but some really sloppy writing. It's very lucky to have the talents of Connor Storrie and Francois Arnaud.

 

[4everchan]

I just watched episode 6. I won't say much because I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it... but I love this show more and more and more I watch it (and I was hooked after the first 2 episodes LOL) The beginning episodes made much more sense (the way they were shot and how the characters were developed and introduced) when you have seen the whole series. I cannot wait for season 2.

Oh.. and I even cried. Brilliant performance by Hudson Williams in episode 6.

Very glad my taxes have contributed to the creation of this show

 

[Blades of Passion]

The final episode was good. Still some pretty blatant "I'm in acting school trying to think through this line delivery" moments from Hudson, but a puppy dog face and being hot is enough to endear people. And really this show at its best would have totally explicit sex scenes, but it seems the world still isn't ready for quality filmmaking and storytelling alongside showcasing that human interaction.

I noticed during the end credits that episodes 1, 2, 4 had a different editor...it's probably not a coincidence that those are the weakest episodes.

 

[Ziotic]

To me Hudson plays a character on the spectrum to a tee.

You can see how often he struggles with jokes vs sincerity from others and how he is always analyzing 3-5 steps ahead in the situation.

Also, shout out to Dylan Moscovitch’s cameo!

 

[4everchan]

To me Hudson plays a character on the spectrum to a tee.

You can see how often he struggles with jokes vs sincerity from others and how he is always analyzing 3-5 steps ahead in the situation.

Also, shout out to Dylan Moscovitch’s cameo!

gosh... where was Dylan in there ? I didn't notice and I have watched the series more than once LOL

and yes, Hudson Williams really understood the assignment. He does portray Shane's struggles not only with jokes vs sincerity but also with things like rhetorical questions. I think he is brilliant. In the last episode, it's even clearer. His mind never stops. He has all these 'ideas" of what could happen and how to solve their problems in theory and then, has this panic attack when things do not go according to plan.

Very nuanced acting.


ETA. I double checked because I hadn't recognized the figure skater... and of course, as soon as you mentioned Dylan, I thought about that... so yeah.. wow.. I didn't even recognized him.

 

[Ziotic]

gosh... where was Dylan in there ? I didn't notice and I have watched the series more than once LOL

and yes, Hudson Williams really understood the assignment. He does portray Shane's struggles not only with jokes vs sincerity but also with things like rhetorical questions. I think he is brilliant. In the last episode, it's even clearer. His mind never stops. He has all these 'ideas" of what could happen and how to solve their problems in theory and then, has this panic attack when things do not go according to plan.

Very nuanced acting.


ETA. I double checked because I hadn't recognized the figure skater... and of course, as soon as you mentioned Dylan, I thought about that... so yeah.. wow.. I didn't even recognized him.

I noticed the first time I watched. My initial thought was “no Olympic figure skater would look like that” of course Dylan is now a decade removed from when he actually competed in Sochi.

 

[4everchan]

Also, I couldn't help but smile when Shane was folding his clothes while undressing ... What I liked about Williams's portrayal of someone on the spectrum is that nothing is ever mentioned. Simple, small gestures, sentences, or facial expressions are enough. All of this making Shane so endearing to Ilya who is loud and bold. I thought the different dynamics between them are very convincingly played.

 

[skatingguy]

Also, I couldn't help but smile when Shane was folding his clothes while undressing ... What I liked about Williams's portrayal of someone on the spectrum is that nothing is ever mentioned. Simple, small gestures, sentences, or facial expressions are enough. All of this making Shane so endearing to Ilya who is loud and bold. I thought the different dynamics between them are very convincingly played.

In the first episode Shane is lying in bed, and can't sleep so he gets up to go and use the gym. When he does he makes the hotel bed. That is a very specific behaviour that most people wouldn't do, especially when staying at a hotel. It's that type of detail in the series that is easy to overlook because of the very attractive male bodies that are all over the screen at various times.

 

[4everchan]

Heated Rivalry making French CBC news

Rivalité passionnée, le succès mondial qui sert la culture d’ici

La série « Rivalité passionnée » (« Heated Rivalry »), du Québécois Jacob Tierney, connait un succès mondial qui sert la culture et l’économie d’ici.

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[Jontor]

Heated Rivalry is a show I expected to not like at all. But I found myself smiling through the episodes, and episode 5 was one of the best TV experiences I've ever had.