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“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.