SummaryThe series set in the same universe as 2018 film Love, Simon follows new Creekwood High student Victor (Michael Cimino) as he adjusts to a new school, deals with family issues and comes to terms with his sexual orientation.
SummaryThe series set in the same universe as 2018 film Love, Simon follows new Creekwood High student Victor (Michael Cimino) as he adjusts to a new school, deals with family issues and comes to terms with his sexual orientation.
“Love, Victor” is a pretty tame affair – perhaps too tame for Hulu. The show builds to a season finale cliffhanger that sets the stage for a potentially more interesting, less paint-by-numbers second season.
Spun out of the novel turned 2018 film "Love, Simon," "Love, Victor" offers a breezy yet touching extension of that story, with a new teen -- having transferred to the same high school -- experiencing his own coming-out story. Diverted to Hulu from Disney+, it's a well-crafted teen soap, with a few clever wrinkles and a winning cast.
Easily digestible and solidly entertaining yet lacking. The expanded runtime and, I hate to say but, expanded “Love, universe” allowed the makers to do much more with the coming out narrative yet what they’ve come up with is somehow far less.
Yes, Love, Victor is aimed at a younger audience. But the surface-level struggles that Victor undergoes — which, like Simon's, seem more about fitting in and giving up the relative privilege of passing as straight — mean the series misses out on a more resonant story about the specificities of the character's fears of coming out, as they pertain to his faith, his relationship to his parents or his self-image (particularly as a popular, clean-cut athlete). Newcomer Cimino isn't able to provide the depth lacking in the scripts.