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Hulu's Forgotten 3-Part Dramedy Series Is Secretly One of Its Best Shows

By Sofia Martinez · Culture & Entertainment Editor

April 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Jennie Richardson

Published Apr 28, 2026, 7:42 PM EDT

Jennie Richardson is a TV Features and Lists Writer for Collider, and a graduate student pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing. In other words, she really loves stories.

Hulu has had a number of excellent shows over the years that have gained immense popularity, from The Handmaid's Tale_, to Little Fires Everywhere, to, most recently, Paradise. Hulu's original series have a unique touch to them, as they tend to tell stories that are unlike anything else on TV. While there are so many widely beloved Hulu shows, there are also quite a few that have flown under the radar, whether this be shows that were prematurely cancelled despite a devoted audience, or shows that never gained the attention that they deserved. One of Hulu's best original shows ever is its teen dramedy series, Love, Victor, based on the 2018 teen rom-com from the same universe, Love, Simon. Love, Victor still has a small but devoted fanbase, but it remains severely underrated to this day, primarily because it wasn't as widely watched as many of the more popular teen series of recent years.

What Is 'Love, Victor' About?

A couple of years after the events of Love, Simon, a teenage boy named Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino) moves to Atlanta with his family and starts as a sophomore at Creekwood High School. Victor is pretty sure that he is gay, and he's looking forward to leaving Texas behind and getting a fresh start.** **He's hoping that in his new life at Creekwood, he might be able to make friends that he can open up to about his sexuality, and possibly even pursue a romance with a guy, like with his new crush, Benji (George Sear), who unfortunately has a boyfriend who's in college. The problem is, Creekwood is nothing like Victor hoped it would be. He feels pressure to try to be straight, and he quickly starts dating Mia (Rachel Hilson), one of the most popular girls in school. Victor isn't ready to come out to anyone in his real life yet, not even his new best friend, Felix (Anthony Turpel), or his sister, Pilar (Isabella Ferreira).

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Victor may attend the same school as Simon Spier (Nick Robinson), but his life is very different from Simon's. He's recruited to play on the school basketball team; his parents, Isabel (Ana Ortiz) and Armando (James Martinez), are religious, and he is in a friend group where everybody else is seemingly straight. When the newly-promoted Principal Albright (Natasha Rothwell) tells Victor all about Simon and Bram's (Keiynan Lonsdale) love story, though, it gives him hope for what his life at Creekwood might be able to look like one day after he comes out. Thus, **Victor reaches out to Simon for advice through social media, and the two of them start regularly exchanging messages. **As Victor leans more into his façade at Creekwood, he learns more about himself and his sexuality, and he struggles to reconcile these two parts of himself with one another. Through it all, Simon acts as a mentor to Victor, listening to what he's going through and giving him tips on how to get through it.

'Love, Victor' Is a Funny, Touching LGBTQ+ Coming-of-Age Series

Over the course of its three seasons, Love, Victor _shows Victor slowly accepting the fact that he's gay, coming out to the people in his life, and figuring out what he wants his life at Creekwood to look like. _Love, Victor _is a perfect addition to the Love, Simon universe. It shows more of the world of Creekwood High School, including Creekwood Secrets and the quirky teachers there. It also tells another nuanced and emotional story of a closeted gay teenage boy figuring out who he is. As Victor says in the series' first episode, his story is very different from Simon's. His parents are struggling with marital problems, his family had to move on a whim in the middle of the school year, and his new friends and teammates don't initially appear to be as openly accepting as Simon's friends from the drama club were.

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While Love, Victor _is a great series for _Love, Simon _fans, it stands very well on its own as an excellent teen show. As Victor comes to terms with his sexuality and figures out how it fits into his new life, he continues to lean on Simon. In the show's second season, Victor even starts giving advice to Pilar's friend, Rahim (Anthony Keyvan**). Rahim is openly gay at school but not yet out to his parents, and Victor is able to help him in a similar way to how Simon has been helping him. Love, Victor does a great job of balancing its lighter comedy with its deeper coming-of-age and LGBTQ+ themes and more emotional storylines. It also has an excellent ensemble cast made up of unique and compelling characters, but above all else,** it centers on Victor and his story as he gradually finds himself and builds a life that reflects who he truly is**.