Michael Cimino is adorable as Victor, and it’s nice to see a teenage character onscreenwho actually looks like a teenagere. Isabella Ferreira is excellent as Victor’s sister Pilar, though the script never gives her quite enough to do. She’s so good that she almost ekes out a love triangle on chemistry and talent alone. Anthony Turpel is an absolute knockout and one to watch as offbeat neighbor kid Felix. He take’s Victor under his wing on day one and worms his way into the entire family, but by the end of the season it’s hard to believe he’s meant to be an oddball and not a romantic lead.
Rachel Hilson shines as popular girl Mia, who has a homelife more complicated than anyone knows. Victor thinks he likes her and could see a simple, straight future with Mia. That’s a tricky line to walk, and the show is careful to develop Mia fully herself and to continually acknowledge how painful this all could be for her. Meanwhile, Victor gets to use Simon to tease out how a person could wish to be straight – or more likely in this case, given all the loving slow-mo shows of Benji, not yet know if they might be pan or queer or bi – without the show pushing a homophobic agenda.
Bebe Wood brings depth to Lake, Mia’s best friend who starts the season as a shallow gossip hound and ends it in a far more interesting place, like so many of the characters, including Mason Gooding as bully/rival Andrew. Truly, the biggest strength of Love, Victor is its ability to depart from the tired stereotypes that cheapen media meant for young adults, while still using genre tropes – like the road trip, or the found letter – deliberately.
In many ways, Love, Victor comes in response to some of the biggest criticisms to Love, Simon. The lead is a kid of color whose family struggles with money, rather than a white, middle (or let’s be real: upper or upper-middle) class kid. Victor has to work to pay the uniform fee to be on the football team, while Simon and his friends all seem to have cars, giant rooms, and no concern about how to fill up the gas tank or pay for college. The show reconciles this by making the class differential a point of friction for Victor, though he’s not the only one struggling with it.
Another bit of realism that grounds the show (and contrasts it with its predecessor) is that there are out teens in Victor’s world. We meet Benji (George Sear) in the first episode, and it’s clear that everyone thinks he’s both hot and cool in the way that only teenagers can be, but that doesn’t prevent other classmates from warning Victor about paying Benji too much attention, so he doesn’t come off “the wrong way.”
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