{"id":155346,"date":"2025-12-27T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=155346"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:43:36","slug":"heated-rivalry-breaks-records-with-the-cottage-as-the-best-scored-finale-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/heated-rivalry-breaks-records-with-the-cottage-as-the-best-scored-finale-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Rivalry breaks records with \u201cThe Cottage\u201d as the best-scored finale this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heated Rivalry<\/strong> broke the Internet with its finale! Episode 6, \u201cThe Cottage,\u201d officially became<strong> IMDb\u2019s highest-rated finale of the entire year<\/strong> with an impressive 9.9 out of 10 score, as highlighted in a viral post from @MENin4K on December 26, 2025. The HBO Max and Crave series finally took its hockey rivals-turned-boyfriends, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rosanov, to a private cottage where their bond changed forever. After more than ten years of emotional repression, all-star fights, and a love completely kept underwraps, the two men finally told the truth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MENin4K\/status\/2004666028215648552?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Heated Rivalry EP 6 &#39;The Cottage&#39; is officially IMDb\u2019s highest-rated finale of the year (9.9\/10) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RzH7eNhLfV\">pic.twitter.com\/RzH7eNhLfV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MEN (@MENin4K) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MENin4K\/status\/2004666028215648552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Illya confessed that, even though he\u2019s bisexual, no woman could ever replace Shane. Meanwhile, Shane stayed up all night mapping out their future so that Ilya, who is from Russia, could stay with him in Canada. The episode also showed the first \u201cI love you\u201d phrases this pair ever exchanged in the series, sealing a decade-long romance that had been on the low.<\/p>\n<p>But just when love started flourishing, Shane\u2019s dad walked in on the couple kissing and bolted, activating maximum gay panic. Following the intrusion, Shane and Illya told Shane\u2019s parents the truth, delivering the most important pass of the season: <strong>Shane Hollander\u2019s coming out<\/strong>. The shock was never about him being gay, but realizing their rivalry had actually been an obsession with each other since their rookie year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzingPop\/status\/2003223845101273157?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jacob Tierney tells Variety that Season 2 of \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 will likely not arrive before 2027: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be same time next year, because this time last year I\u2019d written five of these, and this time this year I\u2019ve written zero of them. So it\u2019s going to be a little bit later,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbhIwk2yfx\">pic.twitter.com\/sbhIwk2yfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzingPop\/status\/2003223845101273157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Heated Rivalry rose as one of the most unexpected successes of the year, dropping its first episode on November 28 and growing a colossal viewership and fanbase week by week. By December 12, it was officially confirmed that the show was renewed for Season 2, with director <strong>Jacob Tierney<\/strong> revealing that the next installment would not come in late 2026 but a 2027 release-window might be possible. Until then, don\u2019t forget to stream Heated Rivalry on Crave and HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heated Rivalry broke the Internet with its finale! Episode 6, \u201cThe Cottage,\u201d officially became IMDb\u2019s highest-rated finale of the entire year with an impressive 9.9 out of 10 score, as highlighted in a viral post from @MENin4K on December 26, 2025. The HBO Max and Crave series finally took its hockey rivals-turned-boyfriends, Shane Hollander and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":155348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,1441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-series"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}