Netflix has officially renewed Heartbreak High for season 2 following the Australian comedy series’ first season, which premiered in September 2022. Season 2 of Heartbreak High will reportedly feature many returning cast members from the show’s first season, including Ayesha Madon, James Majoos, and others.
Netflix’s Heartbreak High is originally based on an Australian TV series of the same name that aired between 1994 and 1996 on Network Ten and then between 1997 and 1999 on ABC Australia. The rebooted Netflix series follows Amerie Wadia (Ayesha Madon) and her friends and fellow high school students Darren Rivers (James Majoos) and Quinni Gallagher-Jones (Chloe Hayden) as they attend Hartley High, a multicultural high school in Sydney, Australia.
According to Variety, the new series follows the student body of Hartley High as a map detailing the students’ sexual exploits is graffitied on a wall, resulting in the accused students being forced to attend a sex education course called the Sexual Literacy Tutorial, or SLT. Throughout the eight-episode first season, Netflix’s Heartbreak High follows the high school students as they reveal the creators of the map, leading to massive emotional fallout within the student body. Asher Yasbincek (The Heights), Thomas Weatherall (Troppo), and Joshua Heuston (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star, along with Scott Major, Isabella Mistry, and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, who reprise their roles from the original 1994 series.
What We Know About ‘Heartbreak High’ Season 2 on Netflix
News of Heartbreak High’s renewal for a second season comes after the show has enjoyed a reportedly very successful first season; according to Deadline, season 1 of Heartbreak High gathered more than 42.6 million views in its first three weeks on Netflix, putting it on the platform’s “Top 10” lists.
Not much is currently known about what the show has planned for a second season, but it has been confirmed that much of the cast – likely including Madon, Majoos, and Yasbincek, among others – will be reuniting for the new season. Production of the new season will take place in Sydney, Australia.
Heartbreak High will continue to be produced by Fremantle Australia (Farmer Wants a Wife) and NewBei (Rico: Dream Big). Season 2 of Heartbreak High will be available on Netflix.