Hey everyone! How's it going? I'm doing very well. I was just sitting down to write a post for Josh's Nostalgia Corner, but I kept thinking about the second season of Love, Victor, the first season of Only Murders in the Building, the first three episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy, Hawkeye and movies like Super 8, David Lynch's Dune, and the upcoming MCU film, Spider-Man: No Way Home all of which I want to talk about, either because I have seen them, I'm planning on watching them in the near future, or they're new movies and shows that I'll be watching once they're out and available on Disney+ (I'm not going back to theatres quite yet) and I realized that I no longer have a platform to talk about those things. Also there will be spoilers for this season as well as some for season 1, so if you haven't seen the show yet, please do so before you read this review. With that out of the way, let's get into season 2 of Love, Victor.
While season 1 was about Victor trying to figure out whether he was gay or not and then building up the courage to come out to his friends and family, season 2 is about the aftermath and consequences of coming out to his friends and family. Oddly enough though, Victor (I almost called him Simon) doesn't carry the show the way he did in the first season. I'll get into that a little later on, but many reviews that I saw online said that there wasn't enough of Victor's storyline in the first season, whereas I actually thought that season 1 had more of Victor and his storyline than season 2 did. Which isn't a bad thing because, unlike on many shows, there aren't any characters that I dislike or outright hate in this show. Well, except for Mia's dad at the end of the season, but again, I'll get into that later. And all of them have interesting storylines this season.
My favourite characters from season 1, Felix and Lake, get even better in season 2. At the end of the first season we found out that Felix's mother suffers from Depression. Well, that's the main storyline for Felix this season and it's pretty good. It ends up involving all of the other main characters as well, except for Mia and Andrew, because Lake tries to help, and Felix ends up staying with Victor, Pilar, and their parents after his mom is taken in for treatment due to Lake's actions.
Speaking of Mia she really didn't have much going on with her after the first four episodes. She kinda fell to the wayside for the rest of the season. It didn't help that episode 9 only featured Victor and the season's new character, Rahim, Pilar's friend, who is gay and wanted to talk to Victor about coming out and things like that. Kinda the way that Victor reached out to Simon at the beginning of the first season. Here's the thing, unlike many shows on The CW and big franchises like Star Trek or Star Wars, Love, Victor doesn't have a huge cast. In fact, aside from Rahim no new characters are introduced this season, and the side characters from last season carry over to this season. So I don't really get why Mia got shafted this season. She did have a decent cliffhanger to get resolved at the beginning of next season, so that's cool.
Likewise, Andrew really didn't have much of a storyline this season. He dated Lucy at the beginning of the season, but then they broke up in season 2, episode 5 and he immediately got together with Mia and basically served what storyline she did have through the rest of the season. Actually, Andrew was completely out of Victor's storyline too this season after episode 5. Once Victor was back on the Basketball team, he and Andrew had nothing to do with each other for the rest of the season. Which is odd, considering how involved Andrew was in the first season.
I said at the beginning of this review that there weren't any characters that were unlikable. Except there totally are because both Victor's mom, Isabel, and Benji were unlikable this season. Benji wasn't unlikable to start out with but as the season went on he became more and more unlikable, acting like being Victor's boyfriend was a chore. Gee Benji, maybe that's how Derek felt being with you last season? At least Isabel being unlikable this season was somewhat understandable. I mean she was trying to figure out how she could honour her commitment to God and accept Victor at the same time and falls flat for most of the season, which REALLY sucks considering how close Victor and his mom were last season.
I loved how Victor's dad, Armando stepped up to support Victor. In many shows like this, the father is usually the one to screw up in that regard. I mean look at how Simon's dad, Jack, reacted in Love, Simon, which he talks to Armando about during his appearance in episode 3. That was hard for Simon to take, but Jack finally came around. It's just this is a ten episode season of television and so they had to stretch out the drama between mother and son a little bit more than they had to between father and son in the movie. Which is fine, but some of the choices that Isabel made, particularly near the beginning of the season were...shall we say...problematic at best and leave it at that.
While Pilar also didn't have a major storyline now that she's grown used to living in Atlanta, but she and Felix got alot closer this season. As you know from my season 1 review, I love the Lake and Felix relationship, but the more I saw Felix and Pilar interact the more I thought they worked well together. The problem with it is that there didn't seem to be any indication in the beginning of the season that their relationship would go in a romantic direction because he was still with Lake at the time. I should've known anyway considering this is a teen drama and they almost always do things like this at some point during their run. The O.C. did it in the first three seasons of the series, making it three quarters of the show given it was a four season show.
Overall this was a solid season of television. Seriously if you haven't seen Love, Victor yet, definitely give it a shot. It's really good. Season 3 is coming out sometime in 2022, probably sometime in the summer or early fall at the latest. So I am really excited for that.
Alright my friends, I think that's gonna be it for me for today. I'm gonna try and have up reviews for season 1 of Only Murders in the Building and the first three episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy over the weekend, but we'll see how things go. I might be busy this weekend. In the meantime have a wonderful evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
