This article contains major spoilers for "Heated Rivalry" episode 4, "Rose."

Four episodes into "Heated Rivalry," the must-watch queer hockey romance series from Crave Canada that has burst in popularity stateside after it nabbed distribution on HBO Max, and this show has completely ripped me apart at the seams. I've been maintaining a "professional" and "nuanced" relationship as an entertainment critic with the adaptation of Rachel Reid's books for weeks, but the final 10 minutes of "Rose" shattered any hope of objectivity. The yearning between Canadian golden boy Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Russia's own beautiful disaster Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) has become a show that audiences are incapable of having any semblance of chill about ( myself included ). Still, the

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