How does Hulu's series spinoff of the 2018 big-screen gay teen rom-com LoveSimon hold up? Read THR's review:
, the first gay teen romance released by a major studio, premiered in 2018, it was met with as much skepticism as it was affection by the communities the film was meant to represent. All parties would probably agree that the milestone was necessary if overdue, and most anyone familiar with the compromises built into studio filmmaking would admit that the protagonist of such a notch-making movie probably had to be a white, upper-middle-class, straight-passing boy.
After starting at Simon's school, Victor ends up on the same ferris wheel where Simon got his first kiss at the end of the film. Despite the callback to the film's most memorable image, Victor tells his new pen pal, "My story is nothing like yours."Simon Newcomer Cimino isn't able to provide the depth lacking in the scripts, which give their protagonist little interiority beyond the terror of being found out. At least the scenes between Ortiz and Martinez — familiar faces from, respectively — occasionally transcend their bare-bones material.
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