In a renewal that isn’t as surprising as it is titillating, HBO Max confirmed that we will be seeing more of our favorite hockey boys Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, two rival Major League Hockey players whose heated relationship plays out over the course of years, all hidden behind closed doors while outwardly they appear as rivals.
In a video posted on X by HBO Max, series stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie open a box that contains a hockey puck confirming season 2 of the steamy queer show everybody is talking about. It has taken the internet by storm thanks in part to its sex scenes, which are a breath of fresh air in an increasingly puritanical mindset on how relationships are portrayed in media.
“Hotter, wetter, longer,” Williams said of season 2.
“Start reading The Long Game if you want to spoil it for yourself,” Storrie teased, referencing author Rachel Reid’s novel in the Game Changer series, of which Heated Rivalry is based.
HBO Max will continue to distribute the show from Canada’s Crave streamer in the U.S. and Australia, but it is currently making deal to release season 2 in more territories.
“There’s certainly a possibility we’ll have additional resources, and we can do some things that we would want to do,” creator Jacob Tierney told EW in an exclusive interview. “That would be great, but otherwise I would want to keep it spiritually the same show. We’re off on a road here, we’re in one direction, and I like it. I’m so happy with the show and I’m so incredibly impressed with what my creative team pulled off….For me, it’s 10 across the board. So there’s no version that more money could make me wanna change anything.”
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