Fans of Love, Victor should rejoice: Hulu just announced the series is being renewed for another season.
Love, Victor is the sequel to the popular gay teen romance film Love, Simon, centering on the closet woes of Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino), a new student at Creekwood High, Simon’s alma mater. As he begins to through his own sexual awakening, Victor enlists the guidance of Simon (Nick Robinson) and his boyfriend Bram (Keiynan Lonsdale) about how to navigate high school while potentially coming out.
Related: Brian Tanen on ‘Love, Victor”s move to Hulu: “Hulu will allow us to tell more adult stories”
Originally announced as a Disney+ show, Love Victor had its debut on Hulu instead. In an interview with Queerty early this year, showrunner Brian Tanen explained that the move was a creative choice.
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“I, for one, feel that for the longevity of the show, that Hulu will allow us to tell more adult stories,” Tanen said. “We’ll be more able to grow up and have nuanced stories that will include not just first crushes, but also first sexual experiences.”
Indeed, Hulu committed to season 2 just a couple of months after the conclusion of Season 1, which ended on cliffhanger fans will be excited to see revealed.
Fans will also be happy to learn that Love, Victor’s writers are eager to “push the envelope” of the character’s sexuality in Season 2.
“We’d love to tell sexier stories,” Tanen told TVLine. “That’s going to be so much more exciting on a network like Hulu, which, since they’ve adopted us, have been so supportive of the show and incredible partners.”
Tanen said he plans to bring more characters from the original film, in addition to Nick Robinson’s Simon and Keiynan Lonsdale’s Bram, both of whom popped up in Season 1.
Writers are already at work on Season 2, but no release date has been announced.
Topazme
i wish that the “simonverse” would be an anthology series and love victor would have been the first series which focused on latino gay kid with difficult home situation and maybe the next season would focus on a lesbian lead and her story and next season would be with a transgender lead and so and so on….there are so many different aspects to the LGBT+ community regarding the sexuality spectrum as well as the gender spectrum and also the different cultures and backgrounds that those kids come from…maybe in some season kids would deal with having asian parents or indian parents or middle eastern parents or anything in between and it would have been such a great idea that each season the previous lead would be the one to guide the new lead and so on and this would have made amazing representation in diversity organically as opposed to feel forced……i really wish the creators did that
JED08
Series with these people are currently playing. Hightown, about a hot lesbian lead, and Pose is all about trans people. Pose is also remarkable television.
nm4047
nice idea, but it still needs to be commercially viable.
Cam
@JED08
I liked Hightown, my only issue was the main character was a little self destructive and I hope it isn’t going down the route of “LGBTQ character must die, never get a relationship or be self destructive”, but I have to say, the first season was good!
HoldenCaufield
How many folks feel that Disney/Hulu isn’t the best home for gay-themed series? Even though half the executives I knew at Disney were gayer than Sigfried & Roy, the company line is very homophobic. The series may survive if it keeps bringing in the $$, but they won’t have the freedom to tell pushing-the-envelope gay stories.
jjose712
Disney was not the best place (and that first season was filmed to be aired on Disney +). We are talking about a channel that needed two and a half seasons to make Cyrus hold hands with a guy on Andi Mack.
But there won’t be such problems on Hulu, and the second season will be filmed knowing it’ll be aired on Hulu.
Given that it was Hulu’s biggest hit since The handmaids tale, i expect they treat the show well this time
chris_clb614
Holden, do you know what Hulu shows besides network TV shows right after they air?
Spidey137
The show gained confidence and it moved along. The final episode was actually really good. I do think the series has a limited shelf life. I love Topazme’s idea of wrapping up the Victor storyline and exploring other queer characters. And ramping up the sexuality ala “Sex Education” would make it more realistic. Not that audiences need to see “high school students” (the actors are all in their 20’s) in sexual situations obviously. But showing a gay guy’s first time would be almost revolutionary. Although Justin’s first time on “Queer as Folk” would be hard to “top.”
JED08
Agreed, that last episode was magical.
Doctor Benway
“But showing a gay guy’s first time would be almost revolutionary”
You know there is a wonderful European show called “Skam” (with a lot of remakes, the Belgian one is very good) that show first gay love and first sexual experience.
You just have to stop saying stuck in your own country.
jjose712
Doctor Benway: It’s curious you mention Skam.
Skam didn’t have a gay lead character, it’s in the season three on some countries (because others directly skipped the gay character).
And yes, i agree it’s a wonderful season (i watched the frech version) but for someone who complains that much about Love, Víctor cliches, Skam have a good amount of them too (apart of a couple of totally unrealistic scenes, but very beautiful).
Love, Victor had the problem that it was designed to Disney +, but it has a lot of potential now that it’ll be in Hulu.
It was a show that was barely promoted, that has a gay latino lead, and it didn’t dragged the storyline for seasons and seasons (and the truth is the show gets better in the last episodes).
It was a hit, which open the door for more shows with a gay lead
Doctor Benway
Again, Queerty praising this awful sentimental show.
Seriously, that’s being ridiculous. Do you work for Hulu? Does someone in your family worked on the show?
That was one of the worth show I’ve ever seen. Everything is cliché. And it’s a catalogue of toxic relationship. It’s not cute. It’s just very bad.
nm4047
given it was a show aimed at teenagers or young adults why did you watch it then, if it had already failed your high standard(s)?
jjose712
It’s very easy to understand why the show was a hit. Unlike most teen shows now, it’s not depressing or dark, and it doesn’t look to shock the audience.
Yes, it’s not groundbreaking (apart of the fact that a show with a gay lead character, and a latino one, was a mainstream hit), but it’s funny and entertainning instead of depressing.
It’s a teen show, if you have so high standards you should avoid this type of shows
WillParkinson
:hands you tissues: Poor baby, there there.
Cam
Visibility is better than not. What are your exact problems with it?
JED08
This was a massive hit for Hulu, it broke records. They are filming season two as we speak, and the creators have said that they will be pushing the envelope in season two, and it will include Victor’s first time having sex with a guy.
Cam
My problem with the show, and one I blame Disney for, is that, yes, the lead was gay, but it seemed like most of the show was all about whether or not he would tell his girlfriend, and whether or not his straight friend was going to get laid.
So it was an LGBTQ show because it told us it was, but the storylines were all pretty straight until the end. Hopefully season two deals more with real life.