Returning to Hulu for its third and final season “Love, Victor” brings the story of Victor Salazar’s (Michael Cimino) queer coming-of-age full circle. While at its heart the show remains a romantic comedy, it also finally embraces the artistic freedom to truly explore his sexuality. 

As Season 2 ended, the students of the fictional Creekwood High, located in a privileged suburb of Atlanta, all found themselves at a crossroads on the night of Mia’s father’s wedding.

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The “Love, Simon” television spin-off “Love, Victor” had a rocky journey from inception to screen. That journey is now coming to an end, but not before the television series answers a major question: Who will Victor choose to be with once and for all?

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The first season of the television series dealt with Victor coming to terms with his sexuality, and season two chronicled his journey as an openly gay young man.

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The first season of “Love, Victor” offered a family-friendly journey out of the closet. Season 2 picks up right where Season 1 left off, as the protagonist, Victor (Michael Cimino), finally tells his family he’s gay. Life in the high school closet defined both the start of “Love, Victor” and “Love, Simon,” the cinematic inspiration for the show. So, without the fear of coming out hanging over its plot, where does “Love, Victor” go next?

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With the finale of “Mare of Easttown” behind us, it will be curious to see which series becomes the next hotly anticipated and picked apart weekly series. While “Loki” will undoubtedly stir up the Marvel crowd who are looking forward to a new series after the success of “Wandavision” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” it’s possible it may not generate as many interesting water-cooler discussions, we’ll see.

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“Everyone thinks coming out is easy these days,” Benji Campbell (George Sear) says in the new trailer for “Love, Victor,” season two. But as the trailer for the beloved Hulu series shows, it’s still never simple, and there are always emotional complications to be found. Now that Victor (Michael Cimino) and Benji are out and open about themselves and their relationship, they are about to present themselves as a couple to the world.

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With the advent of Peak TV and the silver era of the Streaming Age, it’s really crazy to consider just how much television has essentially closed and ended the gap between itself and the perceived quality of “cinema.” One format used to be decidedly elevated, and now, thanks to the Streaming Wars—and even the way the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the problems for the theatrical experience—TV and film are basically on par, more or less.

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The “oh, it’s just television” stigma is long gone.

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It’s the Television Critics Association’s (TCA) winter press tour week. That means every network, streaming service, cable player, etc., is looking to dazzle the media and audiences with news and announcements. Disney and Marvel made some big noise today, and now it’s time for Disney’s adult-wing of things, Hulu, to show off their wares.

The gist? Hulu has greenlit a new limited series, “Iron Mike,” about boxer Mike Tyson‘s wild and controversial life.

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When “Love, Simon,” Greg Berlanti’s rom-com about a closeted kid in Atlanta, debuted in 2018, it did so as the first-ever gay teen film from a major studio. As such, it had roughly 150 years of straight cinema (and centuries of LGBT existence) to measure up to, and many queer viewers found it lacking. For some, the titular Simon (Nick Robinson) felt like too mainstream a representation of gay life: too white, too middle-class, too mild-mannered.

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The series is still almost two months from hitting the air, but “Love, Victor” has already found itself in the middle of a bit of controversy. But Disney and Hulu hope to put the controversy behind them when the YA series arrives in June.

As seen in the trailer, “Love, Victor” tells the story of teenager Victor, who finds himself on a journey of self-discovery in his new high school and his new community.

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A little less than a year ago, word broke that Disney+ was going to be the home for a new spin-off of the popular teen film “Love, Simon.” At the time it was reportedly going to focus on the character Leah, but now we know the series is actually “Love, Victor.” The announcement was made as part of the big unveiling of the streaming service last spring.

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