"A vid viewers of Jacob Tierney's homo-hockey smut sensation Heated Rivalry -girls and gays, overwhelmingly-are likely unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the National Hockey League. So, it might come as a surprise to anyone not tuned in to Canada's national sport (I can count the games I've sat through on one hand) that the league's thirty-two teams include only seven Canadian ones."
"Despite the fact that the series was an all-Canadian production, co-produced by Bell Media's Crave and co-sponsored by the Canada Media Fund, editorial has frequently attributed Heated Rivalry as "HBO's." HBO Max snapped up the rights nine days prior to the premiere-over a month after the trailer went viral, when fans south of the border were reportedly mobilizing to pirate the series-but you'd be hard pressed to glean that from media coverage."
Jacob Tierney's Heated Rivalry became an emphatically Canadian hit with strong appeal among girls and LGBTQ viewers. Many viewers lack familiarity with the National Hockey League, where only seven of thirty-two teams are Canadian. The series was co-produced by Bell Media's Crave and co-sponsored by the Canada Media Fund. HBO Max acquired U.S. streaming rights nine days before the premiere after the trailer went viral, yet mainstream American coverage frequently presented the show as HBO's. GQ acknowledged the production chain while framing HBO as having "rescued" the show from "snowy purgatory." The situation echoes a long pattern of U.S. assimilation of Canadian cultural talent.
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