Victor and his family have moved somewhat suddenly to Atlanta from Texas, for reasons Victor and his siblings don’t yet know. “Love, Victor” employs the same letter-writing voiceover, but with new student Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino) seeking a college-aged Simon’s advice over Instagram DMs. It’s a modern meet-cute - the two boys fall in love over flirty emails about coming out, before doing it together with a dramatic kiss on the ferris wheel in front of the whole school. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” “Love, Simon” follows a closeted high schooler’s secret email romance with a mystery classmate. While he was extremely charming in the role, Robinson is smart to take a backseat as executive producer on “Love, Victor,” the adorable Hulu series based in the same universe as “Love, Simon.”īased on Becky Albertalli’s 2015 young adult novel “Simon vs.
So when “Love, Simon” premiered in 2018, becoming the first major Hollywood movie to center a gay teen coming out, it made sense that it was cutie pie Nick Robinson who got the part. From being the face of same sex marriage to most screen representations, cute white boys are always the first to the table. It’s an uncomfortable but inevitable truth of the LGBTQ civil rights movement that white gay men have always come first, even as others were doing the work.