Awesome Music: The song that played in the first teaser, "Run Run Blood" by Phantogram is universally agreed to be the best part of said teaser even among those who hated the whole idea of the show.
Fan Nickname: To differentiate from the movie and the musical, the fandom calls the show "Peathers", short for "Paramount Heathers".
Franchise Original Sin: In the musical, Heather Duke has been frequently portrayed by a nonwhite actress. Considering that Duke became more villainous in the transition from movie to musical, it's not a large leap in logic to spot possible racist undertones in this casting. However, it comes off as downright harmless compared to the 2018 reboot, in which all the Heathers are members of marginalized groups AND are considered "oppressors" of the straight, white good-looking students.
Growing the Beard: Those who defend the show usually encourage its detractors to watch past the infamous first episode. As the series goes along, the heavy-handed anti-SJW jokes give way to more nuanced satire that critiques all sides of the political spectrum.
He Really Can Act: The Heathers are all being portrayed by actors that have had minor roles thus far. Among the few pleasant surprises critics found in the show were the trio's excellent performances, with particular praise being given to Heather C's actress Melanie Field.
Just Here for Godzilla: Fans of Brett Cooper turn in to watch one of her earliest acting roles prior to becoming a political commentator.
Overshadowed by Controversy: The single thing to be talked about the show is the offensive undertones of the plot and the Heathers' casting; no online review of the show goes by without mentioning it and no site featuring it is without this debate.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Many feel this way, complaining about things such as Heathers C. and D. being portrayed as the types that their previous incarnations (if not a large chunk of Westburg) would have bullied to hell and back, Veronica looking more like the earlier incarnations of the Heathers than herself, and JD not wearing his iconic trenchcoat.
The other issues on this page notwithstanding, several fans were intrigued by the show's version of Heather Chandler and were quite disappointed when the trailer seemingly confirmed that she still dies early on. Subverted, as she ends up Spared by the Adaptation.
Heather McNamara, a widely popular character that most fans like (or at least sympathize with), gets killed off in the first half of the season, before her original character arc can even take place. As the most sympathetic of the Heathers and the only one to pull Heel–Face Turn in the original, she could have acted as a Morality Pet to Veronica as her friend or maybe even a potential Love Interest.
The idea of theHeathers being portrayed as/by marginalized people is something that fans have been interested in for a long time - as seen in the popularity of lesbian, bisexual, or otherwise LGBT headcanons for the Heathers and many fan drawings of various Heathers as POC and/or “chubby”- but the show ruins the potential by making the more diverse Heathers into SJW-mocking jokes, who only became popular because of Political Overcorrectness, rather than on their own merits... until you watch past the first episode anyway.
Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Every character is either a helpless victim or a sociopath and by the end, there are no true likable characters unlike the original Veronica and J.D. who at the very least were likable in spite of their crimes.
Took the Bad Film Seriously: Critics might have panned everything about the show, but it does seem that the actors (specially those playing the Heathers) were giving it their all. Particular praise was given to Melanie Field's performance as Heather Chandler, which was her first star role, no less.
Uncertain Audience: In theory, the show was meant to appeal to the younger, teen generation, but it does so by playing straight ideas that most of them don't have, which would instead appeal to much older, much more conservative viewers, who are unlikely to be interested in a show about high school.
Sarah Z: It seems like neither of these groups (Social Justice Warriors and more Conservative groups) actually like the adaptation and both are convinced it was created to pander to the other.
Veronica fat-shames Heather Chandler and later only feels bad about it because she’s worried about getting her reputation ruined. Yet we're supposed to support the slim, white, rich girl with bad attitude and mild narcissism but dislike the three Heathers; who are mean but arguably no meaner than Veronica herself.
There's also when Ram gets bullied by the Heathers for wearing a Remington University shirt due to it being a "racist" shirt. Veronica defends Ram, and it seems that we're supposed to defend him as well. But the shirt really could be considered racist and most viewers agree that the Heathers belittling Ram was correct. That said, Chandler blackmailing Ram to do her bidding only for her to post the picture of him wearing the shirt to ruin his reputation anyway was truly reprehensible.
