Love, Victor

This is better than the movie Love, Simon but not by much. It could take the place of any generically wholesome and wholesomely generic teenage TV series, except the gimmick of this show is that the lead character is gay. From a cultural / sociopolitical perspective, there's value in having such a mainstream depiction of homosexuality; but that is the only sense in which Love, Victor makes progress. From an artistic perspective, Love, Victor is staid, timid, and, thus, boring.

This is an indirect sequel to the Love, Simon movie so I decided to give this a shot and it really captured the feel of the movie. Also, some of the cast from the movie made guest appearances, so you get a glimpse of their lives a year later. I won't reveal much of the story, but it starts with a family moving into the same school district that the above-mentioned Simon was in (but who is now in college). The son in this family, Victor, is on the path to accepting that he is gay, but no one knows that yet. What on folds throughout the series is his acceptance of who he is and how that impac…