Will There Be A Heartbreak High Season 3?

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If you’re anything like me, you binged Heartbreak High season two in two days flat, leaving only one question to be answered: will there be a Heartbreak High season three? With the fate of the school, Malakai’s future and bird psycho’s punishment all up in the air, there’s certainly more ground to cover. Here’s everything we know so far about whether Netflix will answer our prayers with a third season.

Heartbreak High: Season 3?

If you’re partial to a high school drama (no judgement here), Heartbreak High is your next great watch. A soft reboot of the classic Australian series of the same name, it’s like Sex Education if it was set in Sydney, Australia. What’s not to love?

Chloe Hayden as Quinni, Ayesha Madon as Amerie, James Majoos as Darren in Heartbreak High S2

What Is Heartbreak High About?

Heartbreak High centres on Amerie Wadia (Ayesha Madon), a brash, working-class high school student who becomes a social pariah when a map detailing Hartley High School’s sexual exploits is discovered on the wall of an abandoned corridor. All of the students named on the map are forced to attend a new sexual education course titled the ‘Sexual Literacy Tutorial’, shortened to SLT – which they jokingly pronounce as ‘sluts’. Amerie takes the blame for producing the map, with her fellow students resentfully nicknaming her ‘map bitch’ and excluding her from the social scene for her crimes. Only Darren (James Majoos) and Quinni (Chloé Hayden) will talk to her, and the three set to work figuring out who framed her.

But Amerie didn’t create the map alone: her best friend Harper McLean (Asher Yasbincek) helped her. But, after a music festival they attended together at the weekend, Harper isn’t talking to Amerie anymore, and Amerie has no idea why. As she fights to make it up to her fellow students, Amerie also grapples to restore her friendship with Harper – with a lot of teenage angst and messiness en route.

The series has been praised for its sensitive exploration of a plethora of problems faced by school students today, from neurodiversity to toxic masculinity, racism to friendship, sexuality to drug use. It’s like a less intense Euphoria, or a slightly more party-focussed Sex Education.

What Happens In Season 2?

At the end of season one, Amerie and Harper reunite, after Harper details exactly what happened on the fateful night of the music festival. Though the duo fear drug dealer Chook (Tom Wilson), they return to school for term two with their friendship renewed, hoping for a more peaceful term. But, with the arrival of a new student, a new PE teacher firmly opposed to SLTs, a new friend group promoting abstinence (aka the ‘Puriteens’), and a mysterious new assailant plaguing the duo with creepy dead birds (known to the characters as ‘bird psycho’), the term is set to be anything but simple.

Chika Ikogwe as Jojo, Ayesha Madon as Amerie, Gemma Chua-Tran as Sasha, Sherry-Lee Watson as Missy, Brodie Townsend as Ant, Bryn Chapman Parish as Spider, Angus Sampson as Voss in Heartbreak High S2

(L-R) Chika Ikogwe as Jojo, Ayesha Madon as Amerie, Gemma Chua-Tran as Sasha, Sherry-Lee Watson as Missy, Brodie Townsend as Ant, Bryn Chapman Parish as Spider, Angus Sampson as Voss in Heartbreak High S2. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

Will There Be A Season 3?

No news just yet on whether there will be a third season of Heartbreak High – but our fingers are tightly crossed. Heartbreak High season two leaves lots of questions unanswered: what will happen to Hartley High, what did Malakai write in the letter and will he ever return to Sydney?

With season two announced just over a month after season one dropped, keep your eyes peeled for updates.

What Will Happen In Season 3?

If Heartbreak High returns for a third season, possible plot points include:

Quinni settling into life as school president, and negotiating power with her second-in-command, Sasha
The ups and downs of Ca$h and Darren’s relationship
Spider and Missy’s relationship: will they continue to see each other, and will they go public?
Will the students even return to Hartley High, since a large portion has burned down?
Malakai’s move to Switzerland: perhaps he will return to Hartley after all, or perhaps we will see him settling in overseas

Asher Yasbincek as Harper, Ayesha Madon as Amerie, James Majoos as Darren, Chloe Hayden as Quinni in Heartbreak High S2

Who Is In The Cast?

Ayesha Madon as Amerie Wadia
James Majoos as Darren Rivers
Chloé Hayden as Quinni Gallagher-Jones
Asher Yasbincek as Harper McLean
Thomas Weatherall as Malakai Mitchell
Will McDonald as Ca$h Piggott
Joshua Heuston as Dusty Reid
Gemma Chua-Tran as Sasha So
Bryn Chapman-Parish as Spider White
Sherry-Lee Watson as Missy Beckett
Brodie Townsend as Ant Vaughn
Chika Ikogwe as Jojo Obah
Scott Major as Peter Rivers
Rachel House as Principal Woods/Woodsy
Sam Rechner as Rowan Callaghan (season 2)
Kartanya Maynard as Zoe Clarke (season 2)
Angus Sampson as Timothy Voss (season 2)

How Old Are The Students?

Amerie, Harper, Darren, Quinni and all of the other Hartley High students are 16 and 17 years old in Heartbreak High, aka Year 11 in the Australian school system (or Year 12 in the UK school system).

Of course, the reality is very different: as of 2024, Joshua Heuston (Dusty) is 27 years old, Ayesha Madon (Amerie), James Majoos (Darren), Chloé Hayden (Quinni) and Bryn Chapman-Parish (Spider) are all 26 years old, Will McDonald (Ca$h) is 25, and Asher Yasbincek (Harper) and Thomas Weatherall (Malakai) are 23. No teenagers here!

Who Is Bird Psycho?

Spoiler alert: new student Rowan is revealed to be Bird Psycho in the final episode of season two of Heartbreak High. Throughout the season, he was the anonymous student taunting Amerie and Harper with dead birds and online harassment.

Why Was Rowan Bird Psycho?

So what was Rowan’s motive? We may have been told Rowan is the new student from Dubbo, but it turns out he used to live in Sydney – and hang out with Amerie, no less. After nursing a bird back to health together, mean spirited kids taunted Amerie and Rowan for being losers, but Amerie blamed the idea on Rowan. Angered by her betrayal, Rowan stormed home and smashed up his bedroom, terrifying his brother Jett who runs from the house in fear. Jett runs into the road and is tragically struck by a car, killing him. Rowan and his family move to Dubbo, but when Rowan returns to school in Sydney many years later, he still blames Amerie for his death.

Where Is Heartbreak High Filmed?

Heartbreak High is filmed at Maroubra High School – a real school in Sydney, Australia – with additional scenes filmed in Maroubra and Matraville in New South Wales.