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- Hulu
- Jun 17, 2020
- Hulu
- Jun 17, 2020
- Hulu
- Jun 17, 2020
- Hulu
- Jun 17, 2020
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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76% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
69
76% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The narrative at the heart of “Love, Victor” is overall charming, nuanced and real.
It’s sweet, funny, goofy, full of emotion, a little rocky in parts, sometimes a little overloaded on heavy backstory, and not particularly interested in subtlety. But for a first season especially, it’s impressive how effectively it turns Love, Simon’s epistolary structure against itself.
Character development is strong across the board, with each of the teens feeling real and specific beyond their teen comedy tropes. ... Love, Victor makes good on its promise to expand beyond the narrow confines of Simon’s story, but it doesn’t get very far.
It never gives up on its original mission statement that happy endings aren't as easily attained and painless for most of us as they might appear to be in various legends. Neither does it deflate the notion that everybody deserves them, a token of optimism worth holding close to the heart and maybe even binging upon, depending on your mood. Nice is fine, and we could use more of it. In that regard, "Love, Victor" meets those expectations.
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.
There are much better TV seasons involving gay teens figuring out when, how, and why to speak their truth to the people they love — the first years of My So-Called Life, One Day at a Time, and Everything Sucks, to name just three, are all available to binge this weekend — but this one’s heart is largely in the right place, and sometimes, sincerity’s enough.
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.
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User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 919 User Ratings
1.1
11% Positive
97 Ratings
97 Ratings
1% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
88% Negative
811 Ratings
811 Ratings
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