{"id":278335,"date":"2025-12-02T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=278335"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:37:45","slug":"heated-rivalry-reaction-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/heated-rivalry-reaction-reviews-278335","title":{"rendered":"Why is everyone obsessed with this gay Canadian hockey TV show?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d has been a breakout hit. What\u2019s the special sauce that\u2019s making everyone so excited?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why is everyone so obsessed with &#039;Heated Rivalry&#039;? | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyVyyfYaHwc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Outside of the occasional <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>-level incident, Canadian TV tends to waste away in the back catalogues of Crave and CBC Gem, never to be fully appreciated outside of the Great White North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s hard to deny that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/heated-rivalry-gay-hockey-romance-278287\">Heated Rivalry<\/a><\/em>, the new queer hockey drama about two rival pro hockey players who fall in love is having a bona fide moment around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From think pieces to social media discourse, the show is everywhere. Even the interview with creator Jacob Tierney and stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie that <a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/heated-rivalry-gay-hockey-romance-278287\">we published here on <em>Xtra<\/em> <\/a>quickly shot up into our most-read stories of the year when it dropped.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">We break down some of the key ingredients to the show\u2019s recipe for success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d has been a breakout hit. What\u2019s the special sauce that\u2019s making everyone so excited?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":278338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"editorial_slug":"10","_editorial_slug":"10","exclude_from_latest_block":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,6,10],"contributors":[1933],"topic":[1949],"clients":[],"series":[],"timeliness":[58],"editorial_format":[33,2088],"type-of-work":[2536],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278343,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278335\/revisions\/278343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=278335"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=278335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}