Love, Victor

Not only is the writing ballsier in Season 2 (at some points, quite literally), it’s also more complex.

This show is equally as fun as its bright young cast, and it depicts enough of a twist on the classic coming out story that you’ll want to watch more.

“Love, Victor” is a sequel that almost plays as a reboot, despite the cultural and economic differences between Simon and Victor.

“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.

Love, Victor was already a great show. However, Season 2 is near perfection

First, I would like to thank you for creating and releasing this amazing TV show. I have been a fan of the Simonverse since I watched the first movie: Love, Simon. This is the best TV show I have ever seen and I have seen 100s. Great story, great music, great characters, great actors, great attention to detail, and overall great production. Everyone involved in Love, Victor has shown how amazing they get their job done. I will be enjoying Love, Victor and other Simonverse projects for the rest of my life. I hope everyone gets a chance to witness the powerful impact this TV show and franchise has to offer.

This show was written by people who live almost entirely inside their own heads. The teenagers act like grown adults, the adults act like teens. And the moral of the story seems to be to stick with the very handsome but toxic, self absorbed sexy guy instead of someone who's willing to love you for who you are. Mehh.

This show screams ‘adult interpretation of teens’ The line delivery is so artificial and the teen lingo is so forced. It feels so fake! This is coming from a gay young adult.

“Love, Victor” isn’t only about a cute gay teen coming out, it’s about how parents, grandparents or more generally adults are the bad guys with their old references (err pop culture anyone?) meaning Madonna or Billy Joel (but not Dolly Parton, she seems cool enough apparently), their religious beliefs and their conservative views of the world. Parents are always so mean and demeaning to their kids (gay or not) especially compared to our NYC gay community, which is apparently so fun, friendly, supportive, sexless and loving. Don’t know what community the scriptwriters are talking about but neither me nor my friends are sharing any kind of similar experience. So yeah in this show, teens know it all, they have it all figured out, not because they’ve been well raised by their families, but just because being from a minority or being young make you automatically smart… That sentence from Felix says it all “you are already the best version of yourself”, so guys let’s not try to be better or to learn anything from anyone in life. These teens are actually incredibly conservative: they don’t smoke, don’t do drugs, rarely have sex… Is this show entirely bad? No. But compared to let’s say “Queer as Folk” (sorry people pop culture, again), it’s so far from reality, there isn't even an entry point to explain how far from reality it is.