- gmhoggsDecember 30, 2025What was touted as a hot romp hockey show turned out to be an emotional roller coaster with some of the most endearing and ernest characters I have seen on TV in a long time. An enjoyable watch from beginning to end, the characters truly worm their way into your heart so by the end of the season you are invested in all of them, not just the two phenomenal leads.
- DOAN FSDFebruary 3, 2026The show itself really isn't that bad, but the gay community would have thrown a fit of a lifetime if a show with straight attractive female characters had this amazingly shallow body diversity. EVEN the guy that serves coffee and smoothies is ripped like you wouldn't believe or even begin to understand. Every male character is jacked, and I think it represents a very low statistic of the actual group and doesn't promote body diversity like the woke preaches on everything else that doesn't apply to them. The showrunner from a visual perspective highlights the hypocrisy of entertainment today without of course doing anything good to change it. To get through the storyline you have to go through minutes upon minutes of disturbingly loud sex scenes. I guess only the woke get to decide if a show has these scenes nowadays.
- shumansh1January 15, 2026I wish Letterboxd let you review TV shows so I could hate on this more. This is CCCCCOOOOOOORRRRRNNNNNYYYYYYY schlock. Ilya gives me full out of body cringe to the point that I want to peel my skin off. The “dom top” vibes are so forced. Hollander can not act. Period. The “rivalry” aspect is basically not there, but sometimes it is? There are so many damn time skips that it’s hard to keep track of when they’re teammates and when they’re not, not that it actually matters since the only real story is a “will they won’t they, but it’s obvious that they will”. The boundaries they have to go through to secure their relationship are not interesting or exciting or new or fresh. A number of the sex scenes are pulled straight from actual porn—so just go watch that, frankly. People are praising this show because they think it’s progressive but there’s other better LGBT content out there. This is poorly written, poorly acted and derivative slopppp.
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Heated Rivalry has 1 season.
Heated Rivalry has 6 episodes.
The key characters in Heated Rivalry are Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams), Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), Scott Hunter (François Arnaud).
Heated Rivalry was directed by Jacob Tierney.
Heated Rivalry was produced by Adam Benish, Lori Fischburg, Justin Stockman, Eddy Lomas, Jacob Tierney.
Two rival hockey stars at the top of their game face an unexpected challenge when they develop feelings for each other, complicating their careers and the sport's expectations.
Heated Rivalry is rated TV-MA.
Heated Rivalry is a Drama, Sport, Romance show.
Heated Rivalry has an audience rating of 8.8 out of 10.
Heated Rivalry episodes are 50m long.
There is no information yet from the studio on if there will be another season.