lapetitepritt posted: " Hello, bookworms! Last day before the publishing house where I am doing my internship closes for three weeks. How are you spending this last month of summer? I plan on watching the European Gymnastics Championships and I really want to attend at l" La Petite Pritt
Last day before the publishing house where I am doing my internship closes for three weeks. How are you spending this last month of summer? I plan on watching the European Gymnastics Championships and I really want to attend at least one meet of the European Swimming Championships that are being held here in Rome, but we shall see what happens.
Today, as I had promised you on Monday, I am going to share with you my thoughts on the thrid and final season of Love, Victor. For those of you that are living under a rock, this series is a spin-off of the movie Love, Simon which is in turn based on the bestselling novel Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.
While I really liked the first season, S2 of this show was one of the worst seasons I've ever watched across everything I've ever watched, which is a lot, I can assure you. I don't know what happened, maybe when changing platform from one season to they had some kind of miscommunication problems, because it really felt like watching a completely different show and not in a good way. I really, really hate Love, Victor season two.
So, you can imagine how wary I was before starting season 3; for a while, I debated whether I should just skip it and pretend it didn't exist, but seeing as it was the final one, I decided to give it a try anyway. I procrastinated it for a bit, watched two episodes with my friend Debs and stopped, but then — while at home with COVID — I put it on and watched all that was left of it in a evening-night of folly. I don't know what possessed me, but I did it.
In the end, season three was not as bad as season two, but it still wasn't good. Can you believe my favourite character and my favourite storyline in a queer show were both straight? Andrew is definitely the only good thing about this finale and his storyline with Mia was actually kinda cute and I enjoyed their bits. The rest… Well, it was a disaster.
Starting from the fact that they had one too many love interest for each of the characters (aside from Andrew and Mia, you see) and that not one of their storyline was well written or even engaging. I didn't care for any of them, to be honest, and they were all extremely predictable. Not to mention that ending. I'll sue someone for that basic ending.
The new characters were completely useless, Nick was put there for… no reason I can come up with, because he changed personality every other scene and he wasn't even remotely interesting enough for me to care about him or his relationship with Victor or whomever.
Lucy was the biggest disappointment for me, because I wanted to love her, but they did not give her any personality. She was just Lake's girlfriend and that was that. They gave her a minuscule backstory and tried to make it as we should care for it, but it wasn't developed enough and it ended up just looking like lazy writing to me.
Another thing that really bothered me is how Rahim character was treated. They wanted to make us love him despite everything — and let's be real, he did nothing wrong compared to other characters and especially Victor — and thanks mainly to the actor love him I did. However, they could have used him in so many different ways, could have given him a relevant role or even just treat him right. But no, they decided to lazy-write him as well and just use the most basic plot you can come up with when having a queer religious character.
And don't get me started on the whole alchoolism plot line. They had already butchered it in season 2 (which is my main issue with it), but they decided that that wasn't enough: they said "Why not make it worse in season 3? Why not making it look like a small issue and only related to the romantic relationship of these two characters?". If someone going through a similar path as Benji watched this show, I think they would come out of it thinking that romance is going to solve their every problem just like that. I hate when addiction, mental health and disabilities in general are dealt with so poorly and I can't forgive the writers for this. They should have given it some more thought, I think.
There no one thing aside from Mia and Andrew that I would save from this season, truly. I can just say that it's slightly better than the second one, but I would highly highly recommend you watch season one and call it a day. It's not worth your time, just completely ignore the existance of a second and third season and you will be happy.
Rewatch the movie, if you really miss the world. I was not the biggest movie fan, but compared to the shit show this series has become, I am actually really grateful to only having had a mild reaction to the movie.
I still think *all* of the books are superior to both the movie and the TV show, so I would encourage you to pick them up instead. I haven't reread them in a long time, but I still consider them one of my favourite companion series and I would love for Becky Albertalli to write some more in the Simonverse. Maybe even something similar to Love, Victor, but possibly better written and better thought out as a whole. I trust you, Miss Becky. You have never disappointed me once and I believe in your writing abilities.
If you've watched the show, I would love to know what you thought of it, if you agree with me that the order of the seasons from best to worst is 1-3-2, and if you had similar issues or if you liked the series as a whole and think I am crazy. Let me know in the comments!
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