Australian high school drama Heartbreak High returns for third series

13 November 2024

The third — and it seems, final — series of Heartbreak High, in the second inception of the gritty Australian high-school TV drama, is on the way. Set at the fictional Hartley High, in Sydney, Heartbreak High originally screened between 1994 and 1999.

A rebooted version of the show debuted in 2022. Series one of the reboot was well received all around, and garnered a one-hundred percent Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating. Series two, while popular with audiences, did not however do so well critically.

The original nineties show was considered ground-breaking (read: in your face), and as I wrote before, Heartbreak High made my high-school days seem like a non-event…