Love Victor Season 3 Review: Leaves Without The Glory Of His Arrival Due To A Bumpy Final Stretch
Stars: Michael Cimino, Rachel Hilson, Anthony Turpel
Director: Jason Ensler
Streaming Platform: Hulu and Disney+
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Love Victor Season 3 Review: Everything has an end, even and above all the school, the last year has also arrived for Victor and his friends. It precisely follows this part of life long-awaited by every teenager, the beginning of a new era, adulthood, growing up but for real, the third season of Love Victor, a spin-off of the 2018 film Love, Simon. Arrives on Hulu and Disney+, June 15, 2022, the final chapter of the series that with delicacy and lightness but never superficiality narrated Victor’s coming out and his maturing. At the end of the second season Victor (Michael Cimino), the teenage protagonist of the series conceived by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, was at a crossroads, choosing between his first love, Benji (George Sear), or starting a new relationship with a new boy from Creekwood high school, Rahim (Anthony Keyvan), an Iranian of the Muslim religion.
This third season is built on the swing of relationships, relationships, and the existence of all the protagonists of the series: approaching and moving away, taking and leaving each other, understanding each other and not understanding each other, telling and hiding the truth, not only between Victor-Rahim- Benji but also among the other characters of the series: Mia, Andrew, Felix, Lake, Pilar, Lucy. love, Victor was born in 2020 because of the good performance of “love, Simon” in the cinema and to fill an existing void of LGTB youth fiction, a subgenre that was beginning to be more and more present on the screen. Through the problems of a Latin boy with a family raised in a strong religious sentiment, we knew the difficulties of not coming out of the closet but dealing with the conservative thinking of the family and oneself.
Love Victor Season 3 Review: The Story
Over the previous two seasons, we’ve seen Victor (Michael Cimino) and his family accept him and his friends and Simon helps him become the person he wanted to be. This third batch, which premieres on June 15 on Hulu and Disney+ and represents the definitive end of the series, is the culmination of a whole path traveled. It is a pity that the taste in the mouth that these episodes leave is not as pleasant as what we were used to.
love, Victor’ has lost its essence while it has said goodbye to the interaction of its protagonist with Simon. This maturity of the character has not been reflected in a season that has lost almost all its ability to show interesting conflicts to address, some of them mentioned in the previous lines. In these episodes, there is a lot of potential, and it is that some of the plots could have been squeezed much more, but the problem is that they have not been able to take advantage of them, so they have remained bland and excessively fast resolutions. At this point, Lake’s (Bebe Wood) relationship with her mother deserves attention, which she has been cooking since the first season and which reaches an end in a matter of a handful of scenes.
Love, Victor 3 continues his journey in narrating the feelings, and the motions of the soul, and Victor becomes the protagonist of his story, while in the past he would have been only a secondary character, the friend of the protagonists; in short, it is very important to give voice to these stories. If you are not “narratively” represented, it means that you do not exist and therefore the public cannot identify you, and therefore the narratological void must be filled. Love, Victor was able to bring to the field the classic scheme, the clichés of teen love stories, and yet is equally capable of being innovative and subversive. The main and universal themes that go beyond any kind of label are the courage to be oneself, the need to accept one’s identity, and find one’s place in the world, embraced by the community.
The series still works around these lines, expanding them and inhabiting them in an even more extended sense, showing a vicious and virtuous circle at the same time: if you don’t accept yourself, you can’t be accepted, and if you are ashamed of what you are, probably the other. will perceive it. So the show lives on two thrusts – like the characters -, on the one hand, being explicit and letting out of the closet those who until recently grew up and died in that closet, and on the other hand not exaggerating too much, after all, we are talking about a product on Disney the showrunners seem to say, on the one hand, the story of a happy oasis in which homosexuality – male and now also female – it exists (we are in America in 2020) and that’s it, on the other hand, the realization that someone who will not understand will always be there.
Hulu went on to release two seasons of ten episodes before announcing in April that season 3 would not only be the show’s last but that the adult series would be streamed on both Disney+ and Hulu platforms. The Hulu president told Variety that they are proud to bring the series to the widest possible audience, making it available on both Disney+ and Hulu to celebrate the latest season and LGBTQIA + pride month. Craig Erwich, president of Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment, spoke about the importance of providing the widest audience possible with an inclusive show like Love, Victor because you need to create stories that reflect the world, we live in.
Love Victor Season 3 Review And Analysis
The first season, released in February 2021, showed the life of a new student, Victor, at Creekwood High School, who as he began to discover himself, found in the words of a stranger, Simon, help, the episodes followed his journey of discovery. of himself, as he faced various challenges at home and outside, became aware of his sexual orientation. In the second season, Victor talks about the consequences of his coming out and his relationship with Benji, put to the test due to his family and a new possible interest. The third season still brings self-discovery to the center, not only to understand who he wants beside him but also who he wants to be. A double challenge, a climb because change is scary and even more scary to choose because choice also means not choosing something else. Victor and the others have to decide who they want to become tomorrow, where they will live in a year, and who they will have at their side: the future is looming, it terrifies but it is also beautiful.
This season picks up on last season’s cliffhanger: Will Victor go back to his boyfriend Benji or will he start getting to know Rahim better? This question is answered in the first moments of the third season, to get out of doubt Victor closes his eyes and follows his instinct to have a moment of clarity. We talk about what it means to be alone, not have a relationship, we discuss gay dating apps, sexually transmitted diseases, the plurality of experiences related to coming out and we discuss how sometimes it is a privilege to pass for straight because at times being what one is can be, and shouldn’t be, terribly dangerous. The eight episodes are dedicated to exploring the existences of Victor, Benji, and Rahim, especially their family life: Rahim’s Muslim faith and Benji’s strained relationship with his father, Victor’s family, and his relationship with his mother.
This third season aims to be an ensemble story, adding stories, and analyzing lives. The show also focuses on the first lesbian couple, Lake (Bebe Wood) and the extraordinary new Lucy (Ava Capri) and this is interesting because broadening the gaze and the stories, including, showing more facets of the queer community is honest and useful. There is also space for the story of the wonderful Felix (Anthony Turpel) and Victor’s sister, Pilar (Isabella Ferreira) who foster a secret relationship and try to help the relationship between the girl’s parents.
What is striking is the genuineness and depth of a story that is genuinely and profoundly real, thrives on ups and downs, detachment and closeness; the path of acceptance by Victor and the people around him is fragmented, wavering, complicated – we also live in gray areas, compromises – even concerning Love, Simon, this makes the series more true and sincere and only in this way we can adhere to an inclusive, contemporary narrative. The plurality – which is sometimes lost precisely because Victor’s life has the better of the others – gives a sense of three-dimensionality to the story, building around Victor a support network that is powerful but not short-sighted in telling the protagonist the truth. Only by living in society, only by understanding and understanding the other, can one mature, grow, choose, and become more fully oneself.
Love Victor Season 3 Review: The Last Words
The eight episodes of this third season are the right ending of the show, choosing perhaps the right and safest way without too many fancy flights. Although perhaps he doesn’t fully exploit all the new elements and characters introduced this season, he continues to tell a story of delicacy and tenderness, of smiles and emotion, composing the final lines of a song of acceptance and inclusiveness. Eventually, in the third season of Love, Victor does exactly what he sets out to do. Concluding the journey of all the characters, giving voice to a plural queer experience, Love Victor 3 is a very good series that has lifted the veil of silence that has often covered the lives of the queer world.
