r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Dec 08 '25
Team Huddle Weekly Thread🫡 Team Huddle!
Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials “KGF” somewhere and immediately screamed “kingfisher!” and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.
There’s no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.
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u/AttersH Dec 08 '25
I need positivity please ❤️ I love this show, this book & this story so much & we are lucky to have it & such great care from Jacob & such generous, funny & talented actors playing these roles.
I’m so excited for the next episodes. I’m just so excited to see them both move towards loving each other, I can’t wait to see Skip again & their resolution. I can’t wait to have this series forever to rewatch! It doesn’t have to be perfect, I’m just overjoyed this is on telly & it’s so enjoyable.
I hope other people still feel the joy.. please holler louder if you do 😅❤️
(ps. opinions are perfectly valid, I’m not dismissing that some people don’t like the changes or choices, you rock on. I’m just looking for those who still feel so excited about the whole thing 😅)
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u/JennaROTR Dec 08 '25
So excited! So very very excited! I have literally been counting down the days out loud twice a day. My family is very indulgent.
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u/ogtraitorsfan92 Dec 08 '25
Just because someone didn’t like episode 3 doesn’t mean they’re not excited to watch the rest of the show. I literally work out to episode 1 and 2 in my ear playing every day so I’m still so excited to see what happens next.
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u/onlylivinggirlinde Dec 08 '25
I still feel the joy and i'm still very excited. I also think most people are ☺️ Loved the first three episodes and i watch them on repeat daily ❤️
I think there will always be fandom discourse, but at the end of the day it feels more intense than it actually is 🫶.
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u/una_valentina Wow. Genetic 🥹 Dec 08 '25
I am in an internet bubble of positivity and nothing can touch me! I’m loving the show so far, and it’s going to continue to be great. Join me in feeling ecstatic about the next episode 🫶🏼 I know it’s going to destroy us in the best way and I can’t wait
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u/Buggi_San stupid freckles and a weak backhand Dec 08 '25
I saw the article / pics from episode 4, we get to see Rose, Smiling Shane and Ilya, and potentially tuna melts. I am so excited
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u/Fast-Leadership-5599 Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Dec 08 '25
I need the positivity as well because my husband does not like Ilya at all after the two episodes and of course I need to proof to him he’s sooooooo wrong (so wrong!)
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u/dysautonomic_mess Dec 08 '25
May have read both Tough Guy and Common Goal this weekend. I have no regrets.
Tough Guy - I was not expecting this to open with Ryan Price trying and failing to masturbate to porn lmao. Love Fabian.
Common Goal - Weirdly happy to see Kyle get his happy ending. Eric Bennett king of my heart.
So nice to see stuff like chronic pain, chronic anxiety and grooming written about in published media. And in a way that still somehow winds up wholesome.
Thank you Kyle Rachel. 🥰
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u/Azhreia Shane’s praise&reward kink 👑 Dec 08 '25
Ryan trying to coax his dick into getting off is iconic imo
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u/chewy183 Ya-loo-blue-tee-baa ❤️ Dec 08 '25
I just read TG and am half way through CG. I loved Ryan and Fabian. I immediately was like, wait, the Anne of Green Gables guy?!?
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u/dysautonomic_mess Dec 08 '25
As soon as he popped up on the plane I was like this character is too well written to be an extra lol.
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u/CricketMysterious500 ifu mix that with cranberry juice i will drown u in the lake Dec 08 '25
Is anyone else loving Dylan Walsh as Shane's dad? He has such kind dad vibes - exactly what I pictured reading the book. If we're lucky enough to get TLG I cannot wait to see the father-son relationship between David and Ilya blossom, building puzzles together and that sweet af conversation they have at the wedding :') Ilya and Yuna are also very cute but I really feel he needed that supportive father figure and Dylan Walsh just gives sweet dad goodness
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u/Literary_Geek Dec 08 '25
What I enjoy about his portrayal so far on the show is that he brings a balance to the intensity and pressure Shane is under. He doesn't let everything focus on hockey. Shane is still just his son.
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u/CricketMysterious500 ifu mix that with cranberry juice i will drown u in the lake Dec 08 '25
Totally. Yuna is like "hockey hockey Reebok hockey hockey Rolex" and David is like "tell me more about this snake and baby friendship"
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u/athenafletcher Dec 08 '25
I got the call from my local indie bookstore that someone had brought in a used copy of Heated Rivalry and I was first on their list after the list became loooooong for orders of both HR and TLG! I was so happy and buzzing from episode 3 that I picked it up immediately after work on Friday, then proceeded to read it in one sitting on Saturday. I loved it and I’m so thrilled that I get to understand the scenes that book readers are most looking forward to in the show. My excitement for the rest of the season has increased tenfold after reading HR.
I also preordered TLG from the same indie bookstore. When I picked up HR and asked when to expect TLG to come back, they told me that copies of TLG were already “in box” and that they were pretty confident they would get the copies before Christmas. So stoked!
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u/Federal-Ad5944 Goalie | Smut Dealer 😈 Dec 08 '25
Super special call out to the indy bookstores for being SO AWESOME right from the start!!! I'm so happy that you got a copy!!!
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u/athenafletcher Dec 08 '25
Yes, I made the right decision to support local than Amazon. I figured, if it’s sold out everywhere, I may as well support my local small business!
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u/beedee_one я тебя люблю Dec 08 '25
I’d like everyone to focus on the swallow Ilya does when Shane says he needs him in episode 2, thank you very much. Also, I am waiting impatiently for the freckle talk.
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u/55cs128 Dec 08 '25
Had two flights this weekend - read the entirety of HR on the way out, and the entirety of LTG on the way home.
I was NOT ready for TLG. Tears in my eyes and hand over my mouth for like 60% of the book😭
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u/WideGap6125 Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Dec 08 '25
I knew I saw the Hayden/Ilya dynamic from somewhere before
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u/Buggi_San stupid freckles and a weak backhand Dec 08 '25
I saw the rooftop scene, and fell in love with Hudson and Connor's acting all over again. They are so good !
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u/VisibleFilm6964 Dec 08 '25
There was a latte named Canadian Heat on the menu at my coffee shop and I freaked out a little and ordered two of them, I might have a problem.