Off Campus only premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, but it's already become the third most-watched debut series on the streaming platform, per . Akin to Heated Rivalry, the television show is based on a series of novels by author Elle Kennedy which were published between 2015 and 2021.
Showrunner Louisa Levy recently told that Josh Heuston (who plays Justin) will not appear in Season 2, but she's keeping the door open. "I love Josh and I would not write him off if I can find a way to bring Justin back at some point," she said. "We never got a chance to meet Stella, who is the person he ends up with in the book. So maybe we'll find a way to fold him into a future season. We don't have him [available] next season, but never say never."
I do think that the three books, as a trilogy, it's Shane who has like the hero's arc. I think, even in The Long Game, it's Shane. As much as the book focuses on Ilya, Shane is the one with that arc, and I do think that continues into this one [Unrivaled].
Then, suddenly, my inbox was full of writers pitching me about it and my group chats were on fire about "the gay hockey show," so I figured I should check it out. I will say, as someone who is deeply allergic to tv shows that people describe as "heartwarming" or "necessary" or "a balm for our troubled times," I am very glad that the first few episodes were sold to me as simply "super fucking hot."
"Heated Rivalry," a steamy hockey romance, has become a hit series for Crave and HBO. It's based on Rachel Reid's novel by the same name. Fans of the show or the novel can read other queer love stories set against a sports backdrop. If you're anything like me, your first thought when you heard Netflix was trying to buy Warner Bros. was probably, "What's going to happen to my beloved 'Heated Rivalry'?"
"We're thrilled to be making smut, and we want it to be titillating," he said. "But we also want to be making sure that we're pushing this relationship forward, because otherwise that gets boring."
But Heated Rivalry's third episode, "Hunter," is a lovely stand-alone installment and stealthily a canny move for the series overall. It's a very swoony, romantic speedrun through Scott Hunter's backstory, but it's just as effective as a way to reframe and contextualize the entire series, as well as a strategy for addressing Heated Rivalry 's biggest challenge: It's a TV show with no interior monologue.
