Highschool can’t final endlessly. Love, Victor is coming to an finish — however there’s nonetheless one final journey available earlier than commencement.
A spin-off of the key movement image Love, Simon, Love, Victor got down to be a coming-of-age LGBTQIA+ collection about teenagers embracing their genuine selves. Season 3 will discover that story — and its characters — coming full circle, however the present virtually by no means occurred in any respect.
Initially set to air on Disney+, Love, Victor was dropped by the streaming service after it was given a 14+ ranking and “advanced” into one thing completely different.
“Once we bought the present to Disney+, we bought it to them straight-to-series,” govt producer Issac Aptaker instructed Digital Spy in February 2021. “It was earlier than the platform had even launched. They didn’t have any unique programming but. As we have been determining what the present is, Disney+ was concurrently determining what they have been, and what viewers they have been for.
Aptaker added in regards to the transfer: “The present advanced into one thing that felt prefer it match way more on Hulu with their slate of teenage high-school reveals that they already had. It was somewhat bit extra mature than the model of highschool that was going to be depicted on Disney+.”
Hulu went on to launch two ten-episode seasons earlier than saying in April that season 3 wouldn’t solely be the present’s final, however that the approaching of age collection would now formally stream on each Disney+ and Hulu platforms.
“We’re pleased with Love, Victor and are excited to carry it to the widest doable viewers on June 15 by making the total collection out there on each Disney+ and Hulu to have a good time the ultimate season and LGBTQIA+ Delight Month,” Hulu president Joe Earley mentioned in an announcement to Selection.
In an official press launch from Hulu, Craig Erwich, president of Hulu Originals and ABC Leisure, spoke in regards to the significance of offering the widest viewers doable for a present as inclusive and empowering as Love, Victor.
“Once we take into consideration creating tales that mirror the world we dwell in, which implies being inclusive, empowering and genuine, Love, Victor represents one in every of our best achievements,” he gushed in regards to the collection. “Distributing the present on each platforms will permit us the chance to carry Victor’s tales in addition to his household and associates’ journeys which have been so fantastically instructed by our govt producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger and our showrunner Brian Tanen to as large of an viewers as doable.”
Season 2 of the present left Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino) on a cliffhanger after he determined which boy he would select as his boyfriend — sophisticated Benji (George Sear), or newcomer Rahim (Anthony Keyvan). Whereas Victor made the choice within the finale’s finale moments, audiences by no means received to see who it was.
Season 2 additionally confirmed Victor’s finest buddy Felix (Anthony Turpel) and sister Pilar (Isabella Ferreira) embarking on a brand new relationship whereas Lake (Bebe Wooden) explored her sexuality and Mia (Rachel Hilson) handled the fact of her father getting remarried.
Govt producer Berger instructed Leisure Weekly in June 2022 that Season 3, which premieres on June 15, will decide up with Victor having a “second of readability” about his alternative after “closing his eyes and following his intestine.”
Scroll down and see all we all know in regards to the closing season of the LGBTQ collection thus far:
