The mission and shortcomings of “Love, Simon” were laid bare in its very first line. “I’m just like you,” says Simon (Nick Robinson), an affable white high school kid who promptly introduces us to …
for the sin of alluding to sex and alcohol — follows Victor’s struggle to make a life for himself in Creekwood while figuring out his own confusing desires. He gets along so well with cool girl Mia that, for a while, he convinces himself he’s attracted to her, too. All the while, though, his feelings for Benji, the sweet guy he works with at the coffee shop, keep growing until he can’t ignore them anymore.
As a season of TV, “Love, Victor” has the advantage of getting to put Victor’s coming-out process into slower motion. His relationship with Mia, though based on an increasingly uncomfortable lie, really does bloom into a friendship that he treasures. Victor’s rival, unlike Simon’s straight up blackmailer, slowly but surely reveals that he is actually a human being under the macho bravado he dishes out between classes.
Central to the conceit of a straight-passing guy trying desperately to keep his secret under wraps, Victor, like Simon before him, wrinkles his nose at the idea of being “too gay.” He eventually visits Simon and his boyfriend Bram in New York City, where they’ve been a bit freer to express themselves, but it’s only when Victor meets a group of hyper-masculine gay basketball players that he feels comfortable.
All told, “Love, Victor” ambles along, deliberately bland and pleasantly toothless. Having seen the whole season, it’s completely appropriate for its young adult audience and therefore downright ridiculous that Disney Plus punted “Love, Victor” tofor sensitive content concerns. And as with “Love, Simon,” your interest in it may depend on whether or not you can count yourself as part of that target demo.
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