‘Heartbreak High’ Producer on “Not Dumbing It Down” and Leaning Into Diversity to Show “What Australian Youth Actually Looks Like Today” (Exclusive)

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‘Heartbreak High’ Producer on “Not Dumbing It Down” and Leaning Into Diversity to Show “What Australian Youth Actually Looks Like Today” (Exclusive)
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The teen comedy-drama has ranked in Netflix's global top 10 for English-language TV every week since its release on Sept. 14.

Set in fictional Hartley High, the reboot follows a web of overlapping high-school relationships — friendships, frenemies, couples and crushes — which all face the test after the revelation of an “incest map” chalked onto a school wall, exposing the various sexual relationships among the students.

What were your priorities when you started developing the update and what did you do to ensure that it was authentic to contemporary Australian teenage life? The high school genre has been around for a very long time, but there have been a number of breakthrough series recently — Sex Education, Euphoria, etc — that are more frank in the way they engage with the realities of teenage life than the genre has ever been before — whether it’s sex, drug use or other issues.

We did have a Netflix exec from the U.S. on board — I think she grew up in the Midwest — and she was one of our writers’ notes calls, and she was like, “I have no idea what any of you are talking about.” So I did think we might get subtitled for the U.S. and other markets in some spots. But in the end we weren’t. There has been some great TikTok stuff that’s come up, where people show all of the slang and what it actually means. But also, viewers are smart. You can get it from context.

So, I hate to even ask this next question, but I’m just curious… Coming from the U.S. context, I can’t help but wonder if there has been any kind of anti-woke backlash or reaction to the show. Social media being what it is…

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