Love Victor is a TV show set in the world of the popular movie Love Simon. Love Simon is about a closeted gay teenager who is forced to come out after being blackmailed. The antagonist Victor, like Simon, is on his own journey of self-discovery. Facing challenges at home, navigating a new high school while also exploring his sexual orientation, Victor reaches out to Simon when things become too difficult.
I found this TV show to be really cute and emotional. Victor is the kind of character that you can really connect to. I was in love with the character Victor. He is so strong and kind. Like any teenage boy, he made some mistakes, but he had this way of facing all of his problems head on. This show was really good at pulling at my heartstrings
I really hope that there will be more episodes soon, because I can’t wait to see what happens to Victor and all of his friends.
Love Victor, like Love Simon, explores the sensitive topic of homosexuality and homophobia. Victor spends the first couple of episodes in the closet denying his sexuality, a common thing for LGBTQ+ members. For a really long time LGBTQ+ members have been told that they should only like the opposite gender, and that if they say they like the same gender they are lying, possessed, wrong, unnatural… etc. In the show, Victor lives in a very religious household and is scared to tell his parents that he is gay. That is a very common thing that young LGBTQ+ members experience. When Victor told his family, they did not all accept him right away, but eventually they came around. Victor got lucky that his family accepted him even if it took a little while. Not a lot of LGBTQ+ members are that lucky; some get kicked out of their home, some get disowned, some parents leave, and in extreme cases, they get killed.