‘Heated Rivalry’ Has a Time Problem

In the second episode of Heated Rivalry , 18 months pass in a matter of minutes. The opening montage is set in “Summer 2011.” The next scene is set in “Fall 2011,” followed by “Winter 2012,” “Spring 2012,” and “Fall 2012” in rapid succession, each jump in time paired with a jarring cut to black. You could call it a cold open (ice-hockey pun intended) but for the fact that these shifts take place 15 times across the first two episodes, zooming the viewer from 2008 to 2014 in less than two hours. Emotionally frustrated competitors and sometimes-lovers Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie, doing an all-time Russian accent — like, get this guy in Chess stat!) pass as both recent high-school grads and industry pros, but are we going to have to see them in the