History Series / Heathers2018

* SettingUpdate: With the setting changing from the 1980s to the 2010s, so too do the asinine high school mores-and the clueless adults going along with them-being skewered.

** Mrs. Fleming. However, much like Heather Chandler, it's implied her beliefs are a bit performative. She's all for allowing students to wear short skirts to the prom until a teacher she dislikes agrees with her. She then suddenly decides allowing short skirts would just be catering to the male gaze.

* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Breonna.]]

** JD wears black which is associated with death.

* GhostReunionEnding:[[spoiler: The show ends with a prom in heaven where all the dead reunite.]]

* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: JD does this to Ram.]]

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Inverted ''hard''. The ending has Veronica and J.D. trapped forever in an afterlife where no one can see them or hear them, including each other. Meanwhile, Chandler is still alive and the other students get to enjoy their prom in heaven.]]

** Mrs Fleming. However, much like Heather Chandler, it's implied her beliefs are a bit performative. She's all for allowing students to wear short skirts to the prom until a teacher she dislikes agrees with her. She then suddenly decides allowing short skirts would just be catering to the male gaze.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Although the show was never happy, the prom in heaven seems to be the first time the students are getting along. Then, all of a sudden, Veronica finds herself unable to interact with them and ends up getting locked outside with a JD she can't see or hear. The same goes for JD as well.]]

Due to the subject matter involving teen violence and murder, the show's premiere was [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents delayed]] after the February 2018 Florida school shooting; it was officially cancelled after the Santa Fe shooting. Because the first season was already filmed, Viacom (owner of Paramount Network) reportedly looked for another avenue to air it but given the subject matter, other channels and broadcasters did not chomp at the bit to air it. This ultimately led to Paramount Network deciding to air the series after all, airing two episodes a night for five nights straight from October 25 through October 29, 2018.

* ActionGirl: Betty, Veronica and Heather Chandler all are shown to be capable of protecting themselves.
* AcquaintedWithEmergencyServices: Heather Duke attempts to call the cops on J.D. (with the flimsy evidence that he knows the word myriad) and the policewoman answering recognises him as a prankcaller. Cue a montage of Duke calling 911 on her classmates for fashion crimes.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler: The TV series uses the films original ending that was never filmed. In this version, Veronica blows up the school and the dead characters have a prom in heaven. Only here Veronica and JD are not allowed into the party, nobody can see or hear them, and they both can't see or hear each other.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: Kurt is actually gay in this version, as opposed to the original where it was simply a story JD made up to further humiliate him after his death.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Veronica, to an ''extreme'' degree. Unlike the previous versions of her, she actually wants to kill people and is revealed to have killed someone years prior to meeting JD. Not to mention how she blows up the school.]]

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Taken to a perverse extreme when Veronica is enchanted by J.D [[spoiler: murdering Ram]].
* AlphaBitch: Heather Chandler, Heather Duke and Betty Finn all take their turns on the top of the pyramid. Lucy also seems to have been this to Betty and Veronica in their youth.
* AmbiguouslyBi: it's never made clear if [=McNamara=] is straight and lied about being a lesbian for social justice clout, or a bisexual who didn't realise there are more identities than just 'gay' and 'straight'. See NoBisexuals.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Betty never shows any interest in boys, and is seen slow dancing with a girl [[spoiler: in heaven]]. On the other hand, [=McNamara=] and Duke also slow dance together, and it's clear this is merely platonic, leaving Betty's sexuality up in the air.

** [[spoiler: Mr Waters contributed to Heather [=McNamara=]'s death and preyed on several other students.]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Veronica briefly becomes the Archie for Ram's Betty and JD's Veronica. [[spoiler: It ends pretty quickly when JD murders Ram]]

** Betty Finn describes herself as having experienced "the bottled up rage of an over-achiever" for the past seventeen years.

* GhostReunionEnding:[[spoiler:The show ends with a prom in heaven where all the dead reunite.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: the teachers at Westerburg High wonder aloud if all this tragedy could have been avoided if they just listened to the students, then shrug and decide it doesn't matter now.

* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Inverted ''hard''. The ending has Veronica and J.D trapped forever in an afterlife where no one can see them or hear them including each other. Meanwhile, Chandler is still alive and the other students get to enjoy their prom in heaven.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Betty does everything right after surviving an attack from J.D; she writes down a precise account of everything that happens, right down to the minute, then heads straight to the police. Not only do they not believe her, they actually apologize to J.D for bringing him in for questioning.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Very common in the show. Most notably is when Veronica, Chandler and Duke are locked in a room together in the eighth episode where they take turns delivering one to each other.

** All the Heathers. Subverted when Chandler admits to J.D that she isn't sincere about her beliefs, and just uses feminist rhetoric to get her own way. For example, she doesn't think prom is a patriarchal institution until Veronica is beating her in the polls for Prom Queen.

* TokenMinority: In universe, Heather Chandler only let Veronica into the group for the convenience of having a token Jewish girl as part of the clique. [[spoiler: Heather [=MacNamara=], who is half Irish and half African American, apparently lied about being lesbian in order to gain status as a TwoferTokenMinority within the group.]]

* AdaptationalSexuality: Kurt

* AmbiguouslyBi: it's never made clear if Mcnamara is straight and lied about being a lesbian for social justice clout, or a bisexual who didn't realise there are more identities than just 'gay' and 'straight'. See NoBisexuals.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Betty never shows any interest in boys, and is seen slow dancing with a girl [[spoiler: in heaven]]. On the other hand, Mcnamara and Duke also slow dance together, and it's clear this is merely platonic, leaving Betty's sexuality up in the air.

** [[spoiler: Mr Waters contributed to Heather McNamara's death and preyed on several other students.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Betty never shows any interest in boys, and is seen slow dancing with a girl [[spoiler: in heaven]]. On the other hand, McNamara and Duke also slow dance together, and it's clear this is merely platonic, leaving Betty's sexuality up in the air.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Taken to a perverse extreme when Veronica is enchanted by J.D [[spoiler: murdering Kurt]].

** Mrs Fleming. However, much like Heather Chandler, it's implied her beliefs are a bit performative. She's all for allowing students to wear short skirts to the prom until a teacher she dislikes agrees with her. She then suddenly decides allowing short skirts would just catering to the male gaze.

** Betty Finn describes herself as having experience "the bottled up rage of an over-achiever" for the past seventeen years.

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Heather Chandler.]]

Unlike the original movie, which was set in the 1980s and featured the then-standard high school hierarchy of [[JerkJock jocks]] and [[TheCheerleader cheerleaders]] dominating and bullying everyone else, this 2010s version involves a trio of traditionally unpopular categories of students as the hegemons in the student body's competition for social media clout.

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Heathers is an American black comedy television series based on the [[{{Film/Heathers}} film of the same name]] written by Daniel Waters. The first season, consisting of nine episodes (out of the original ten produced), aired on the Creator/ParamountNetwork in 2018. The show is described as an "hour-long pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers."

Unlike the original movie, which was set in the 1980s and featured the then-standard high school hierarchy of Jocks and Cheerleaders dominating and bullying everyone else, this 2010s version involves a trio of traditionally unpopular categories of students as the hegemons in the student body's competition for social media clout.

Due to the subject matter involving teen violence and murder, the show's premiere was [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents delayed]] after the February 2018 Florida school shooting; it was officially cancelled after the Santa Fe shooting. Because the first season was already filmed, Viacom (owner of Paramount Network) reportedly looked for another avenue to air it but given the subject matter, other channels and broadcasters did not chomp at the bit to air it. This ultimately led to Paramount Network deciding to air the series after all; airing two episodes a night for five nights straight from October 25 through October 29, 2018.

Due to the subject matter involving teen violence and murder, the show's premiere was [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents delayed]] after the February 2018 Florida school shooting; it was officially cancelled after the Santa Fe shooting. Because the first season was already filmed, Viacom (owner of Paramount Network) was reportedly looking for another avenue to air it but given the subject matter, other channels and broadcasters were not chomping at the bit to air it. This ultimately led to Paramount Network deciding to air the series after all; they are airing two episodes a night for five nights straight from October 25 through October 29, 2018. It is also available in Australia on the streaming distributor ''Stan''.

Unlike the original movie, which was set in the 1980s and featured the standard high school hierarchy of Jocks and Cheerleaders dominating and bullying everyone else, this 2010s version involves a world where minorities have become the mean, popular bullies. It was received about as well as you'd expect.

Due to the subject matter involving teen violence and murder, the show's premiere was [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents delayed]] after the February 2018 Florida school shooting; it was officially cancelled after the Santa Fe shooting. Because the first season was already filmed, Viacom (owner of Paramount Network) was reportedly looking for another avenue to air it but given the subject matter and the significant backlash it had already experienced, other channels and broadcasters were not chomping at the bit to air it. This ultimately led to Paramount Network deciding to air the series after all; they are airing two episodes a night for five nights straight from October 25 through October 29, 2018. It is also available in Australia on the streaming distributor ''Stan''.

** [[spoiler: Veronica's psychotic nature is introduced in the fifth episode. She then continues it for a few episodes before reverting back to being close to the original Veronica who is against JD's actions.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: Heather Chandler makes an attempt to be nicer, the extent to which she succeeds is debatable. [[spoiler: JD also undergoes this somewhat in his attempts to disable the bomb, although ultimately he allows it.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Veronica to an extreme degree. Unlike the previous versions of her, she actually wants to kill people and is revealed to have killed someone years prior to meeting JD. Not to mention how she blows up the school.]]

* AdultsAreUseless

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Heather Chandler

* RemovingTheRival: [[spoiler: Heather Chandler does this to Lizzy]]

Heathers is an American black comedy television series based on the [[{{Film/Heathers}} film of the same name]] written by Daniel Waters. The first season, consisting of nine episodes (out of the original ten produced), is airing on the Creator/ParamountNetwork in 2018. The show is described as an "hour-long pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers."

Due to the subject matter involving teen violence and murder, the show's premiere was [[TooSoon delayed]] after the February 2018 Florida school shooting; it was officially cancelled after the Santa Fe shooting. Because the first season was already filmed, Viacom (owner of Paramount Network) was reportedly looking for another avenue to air it but given the subject matter and the significant backlash it had already experienced, other channels and broadcasters were not chomping at the bit to air it. This ultimately led to Paramount Network deciding to air the series after all; they are airing two episodes a night for five nights straight from October 25 through October 29, 2018. It is also available in Australia on the streaming distributor ''Stan''.

Heathers is an American {{anthology}} television series based on the [[{{Film/Heathers}} film of the same name]] written by Daniel Waters. The first season, consisting of nine episodes (out of the original ten produced), is airing on the Creator/ParamountNetwork in 2018. The show is described as an "hour-long pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers."

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler: Although the show was never happy, the prom in heaven seems to be the first time the students are getting along. Then, all of a sudden, Veronica finds herself unable to interact with them and ends up getting locked outside with a JD she can't see.]]

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler: The TV series uses the films original ending that was never filmed. In this version, Veronica blows up the school and the dead characters have a prom in heaven. Only here Veronica and JD are not allowed into the party.]]

* AssholeVictim: Very few characters who die were good people:

** [[spoiler: JD and Veronica committed several murders and unlike the movie, Veronica was an knowing participant.]]

** Heather [=McNamara=] wears yellow to symbolize her weak willed nature.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: The entire school body excluding Heather Chandler.]]

* TokenMinority: In universe, Heather Chandler only let Veronica into the group for the convenience of having a token Jewish girl as part of the clique. [[spoiler: Heather Mac Namara, who is half Irish and half African American, apparently lied about being lesbian in order to gain status as a TwoferTokenMinority within the group.]]