The makers of the 2018 rom-com “Love, Simon” center Hulu's follow-up series on a Latinx teen from a conservative, working-class family, and recapitulate the film's strengths — and weaknesses.
The main impression left by 2018's pat, polished and inoffensive gay-teen rom-comwas how consummately unqueer it presented. Sure, its protagonist, Simon, struggled with his sexual identity, but he did so from inside thick layers of privilege that kept him safe, like a suit of bougie, masc-for-masc chain mail. He was white, he lived in a tony Atlanta suburb with his liberal, warm, wet-eyed parents — he could and did easily pass for straight.
That's why, though it was packaged as a chance for LGBTQ+ kids to finally see themselves on screen in a mainstream love story, the film's low-stakes, normcore sensibility, to say nothing of its tendency to patiently explain aspects of gay life that wouldn't need explaining to any gay kid with a laptop, felt as if they were pitched squarely at straights., Hulu's follow-up series, in which the film's writers get a chance to course-correct.
But while the specifics of Victor's family life continue to imbue the series with a more lived-in texture than the film managed to achieve, the writing soon — too soon — adopts the restrained tone of the movie. Victor's high school friends slot neatly into types — the eccentric pal , the popular rich girl , her friend who speaks in a stream of just-past-their-sell-by-date pop-culture references , the arrogant jock .
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