Hulu's queer teen drama makes it easy to 'Love, Victor'

Fanfiction can be corny, but it’s also entertaining, corrective, and ingenious in its ability to use recognizable tropes — “fake” relationships, enemies to lovers, and hundreds more — to generate genuine romance and emotion. 

This is all to say that Love, Victor on Hulu is a show that captures the feeling of reading great fanfiction. 

Part of LV’s fanfic-ness comes from its status as an original spinoff from 2018’s Love, Simon, a film based on Becky Albertalli’s Young Adult novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. In the book and movie, Simon is a closeted gay student at Creekwood High who writes love notes to his crush Bram and earns a romantic ending when the two kiss at a carnivalLove, Victor takes place a few years after the movie, when Simon’s romance has passed into school legend and another young, closeted boy arrives at Creekwood High in the shadow of Simon’s fairy-tale ending. Read more...

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