Aahana Swrup
‘Heartbreak High’ season 2 brings a number of adventures for the students of Hartley High. The new term marks the beginning of a riveting high school politics campaign for the role of School Captain— pitching Sasha, Spider, and Amerie as competitors in a competition that remains ripe with drama. Furthermore, the arrival of Timothy Voss, the new P.E. teacher with his perpetual dispassion toward “woke culture” and consequently Jojo’s Sexual Literacy Tutorial— or SLT classes— brings a unique complication to the establishment’s status quo. Therefore, as the season’s fourth episode, “Legs Open Hearts Broken,” takes the students on a school camping trip to Camp Wayback, dramatics and debauchery follow. However, as the viewers accompany Hartley High on this trip, curiosity is bound to arise about Camp Wayback and its connections to reality.
Camp Wayback: A Fictious Camping Ground
For the term excursion, Amerie and her classmates find themselves undertaking a trip to the woods for a camping experience at Camp Wayback. While the location provides a scenic break from the consistency of Hartley High School’s background, much like the school and various other establishments depicted in the show— Camp Wayback is also a fictional location. The grounds offer a typical camping experience with a cluster of cabins perfect for a collective school trip and an outside gathering area for any manner of assemblies.
Furthermore, the camp also has some physical activities for the students to surround themselves with— such as equipment for rope climbing exercises. Consequently, the campground presents a perfect spot for the purpose of encouraging the students’ interest in developing physical and survival skills. As such, Camp Wayback remains pretty on par with regular camping grounds from real life, serving a straightforward purpose. However, as the students of Hartley High take over the place, they find a much different lesson on the camping grounds.
While Principal Woodsy may have had the best of intentions with the trip, her choice of chaperones ends up being her plan’s doom. In his inability to agree with Jojo on anything, Voss ends up equipping rather unorthodox methods of teaching and decides to leave the students alone in the woods to find their way back to camp. As expected, under the dubious leadership of Sasha, Spider, and— occasionally— Amerie, the students fail to pick up the trail to camp. Consequently, their attention is diverted after the discovery of some hallucinogenic mushrooms, sending everyone on a collective trip.
As such, where Camp Wayback ideally would have brought a sense of connection between the Hartley High students and nature, it only leads to a series of bad decisions that end with Jojo looking for her students with search and rescue. Thus, even with only a one-off appearance, the fictional campgrounds of Camp Wayback add a world of complications to the fictional world of ‘Heartbreak High.’
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