Yahoo Finance Exclusive: Love, Victor bosses on complaints about show's lack of queer sex
Love, Victor's showrunners have responded to complaints over the lack of queer sex in the TV series.
The show, which is streaming on Disney+ in the UK, follows the titular character Victor Salazar as he joins Creekwood High School, where he struggles with his sexual orientation.
However, some have criticised the show for not showing the more intimate aspects of queer love, and showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger have revealed exclusively to Digital Spy that it "isn't ever going to be a graphically sexual show".
"Our intention was always to make a show that hopefully rang true to teenagers, but at the same time families could watch together," Berger said.
"This isn't ever going to be, for us, a graphically sexual show that you immediately reach for the remote and turn off when your parents walk into the room. We want this to be a show that generates conversation and brings people closer together."
However, she added: "That being said, season one is very much about the beginning of Victor's exploration, and him figuring out of his identity. That's been a bit of a slow-burn throughout season one.
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"As we move into season two, for all of our characters, as they move through high-school and fall in love and get into these different relationships, we will be seeing them in different situations.
"I don't want to say too much about that, but, we'll be really growing up with these characters. So some of that is yet to come."
Aptaker went on to explain: "We really saw Love, Simon as the template for this show. It's set in the same world. We wanted it to have the same feel. And Love, Simon was not a graphic or sexually explicit movie in any way.
"So I think if you're clicking on Love, Victor and all of a sudden you're met with the world of Euphoria – which we love, but there's a disconnect. That does not live in the same universe as the movie. So we hope it feels cohesive with the film."
Love, Victor is streaming on Disney+ in the UK and is available on Hulu in the US.
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