Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, HBO MAX “Heated Rivalry’ Photo Credit : Sabrina Lantos
HBO’s “Heated Rivalry” is a modern-day soap opera. It’s so hot it’s giving people a fever they just can’t shake.
‘She’ wondered if the sensationalized drama was little more than a salacious peek at playfully romantic gay porn. But, it turns out it’s binge-worthy because the real story is a lot more complicated than watching a few guys get steamy. Like so many well written plot-twisters ‘Heated Rivalry‘ revolves around forbidden love, an emotional catalytic zone and the addictive ecstasy of wondering ‘what-happens-next’.
Connor Storrie, Hudson Williams “Heated Rivalry,’ photo credit : Sabrina Lantos
For some watching ‘Heated’ will be a transcendent experience. It can be compared to the sensation you have when you slip on the ice. You know you’ve lost control, you feel anxiety, and a rush. You’re up in the air. You know you’re going to hit the ground, but you aren’t sure where you’ll land or how life will change when you get there. The confusion, anticipation, and agony ~ they’re all in ‘Heated Rivalry’
photo credit Connor Storrie Hudson Williams ‘Heated Rivalry’
To be sure, each ‘Heated” frame is filled with breathless eye-candy. Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, playing Ilya Romanov and Shane Hollander, are the principal hotties flaming emotional plot-lines. Their punch-lines are amusing, erotic, and tender-hearted. Drawn to each other from the start these star-crossed lovers own the ice as hockey players from opposing teams. At the top-of-their-games, they are stone-cold professional rivals. But, the chiseled athletes melt in the warm spaces they share privately as lust changes to love.
Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie ‘Heated Rivalry’
‘Heated’ includes stories that challenge and celebrate human connection across cultural and sexual spectrums. The series embraces the faces of relationships shared with mentors, team mates, business partners, friends, and family. Dogmas, denials, stigmas, threats and unconditional support hit center-ice as centerpieces of the complex debut series that’s been renewed for a second season.
Francois Arnaud, Robbie G.K. HBO MAX, Heated Rivalry, Photo credit Sabrina Lantos
More than voyeurism ‘Heated Rivalry’ elicits emotional engagement with integrity. It shares thrills, spills and the undeniable sensation you feel when you know you’ve lost control of your heart, but you drive-on anyway.
Connor Storrie, Hudson Williams, HBO MAX, Heated Rivalry photo credit; Sabrina Lantos
The six episode drama streams on HBO MAX. A release date for the second series hasn’t been announced yet.
Canada Dry Gingerale is ‘Shane Hollander’s’ drink of choice. You may want to keep one on hand. Once you hit the play button things get hot pretty quickly.
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