Love, Victor season finale: Oh Victor, why are you like this?

This week, Hulu’s eagerly awaited third season of Love, Victor dropped on the streaming platform. Fans were waiting for it to be unlocked and began streaming the second it was. We wasted no time ourselves, as we were definitely among the ranks of those that screamed ‘WHO DID HE CHOOSE?’ at the end of season two. Inquiring minds demand to know, fam, who is on the other side of the door?

Fortunately, Love, Victor wastes no time in getting straight to the punch. The show opens in the same frame season two left us on: Victor (Michael Cimino) is standing on the doorstep of whoever it is that he has decided he wants to be with. Is it going to be Rahim (Anthony Keyvan) or Benji (George Sear)? 

We’re not even going to try and hide our bias with this one. We are definitely Team Rahim, so come with us as we wait for the door to be opened and Victor’s choice to be revealed. 

Here is our season 3 review of Love, Victor. 

Love, Victor season overview

We were on our feet, waiting with bated breath as the door was opened. Please be Rahim, please be Rahim, please be Rahim!

It was Benji. 

When Victor opens the door, Benji is standing on the other side. Victor promptly tells Benji that he wants to be with him, despite whatever it might have looked like at the wedding. There are apologies and declarations and all those things and then, just like that, Benji and Victor are back on like Donkey Kong. 

But it’s not all sunshine and roses. Benji has another slip-up and ends up drinking again. If you’re up to season 3 of the show, you’ll know that Benji is a recovering alcoholic and cannot, under any circumstances, consume alcohol at all. After telling Victor about his slip-up, Victor tries to tell him that everything is fine, and just not to do it again. But Benji wants to be a grown-up about the whole thing and decides to tell his parents about what happened. 

This is where things take a turn for the worse and Benji’s parents want to ship him off to an in-patient rehab program. Victor, unhappy, tries to be supportive. But anyone that knows anything about rehab programs knows that intimate relationships are highly discouraged during a patient’s recovery and before long, Benji is breaking things off with Victor to focus on himself. 

Victor finds himself single, and while we thought he would definitely spend a whole lot of time wallowing over Benji, Victor is very much, apparently, ready to mingle. 

Victor joins a Grindr-like app, and well, with a face like that, it doesn’t take long before Victor is hooking up with others. 

Victor, no

So here is the 411. We get that Victor is technically allowed to do what he wants. Benji did technically break up with him for the duration of his treatment period. There might have been a conversation along the lines of “I don’t know what happens after that” but it was implied that Benji is definitely interested in reconnecting with Victor once his recovery is further along. 

So yes, we very much understand that Victor isn’t technically doing anything wrong, but we really aren’t wild about the choices he makes throughout this period and the way he treats others around him. 

For starters, as soon as Benji is gone, Victor is sliding right back into Rahim’s DMs, trying to ask for forgiveness, etc. Rahim gives him the cold shoulder for quite some time, still angered by Victor’s initial brush-off. Victor chose Benji – it’s not Rahim’s fault that Benji couldn’t choose him back. 

As solid Team Rahim’s stans in this house, we were very proud of the way Rahim called Victor out on his mess and very firmly drew a line in the sand with him. After forgiveness finally comes, Rahim friend-zones Victor and makes it very clear that they will never be anything more than that. 

Frankly, Victor is lucky that Rahim even allowed him back into his life in that capacity. If Rahim had decided that Victor no longer deserved a place in his life, we’d have totally supported that. 

Victor, really, why?

Victor knows that he still loves Benji. He knows. He isn’t even pretending to try and convince himself otherwise. So when he goes onto the hookup app and meets Nick (Nico Greetham) and starts casually hooking up with him, we were unsure how this was going to go. 

Unfortunately, it went exactly where we didn’t want it to. Nick makes it clear that this thing between them is just physical, and not too long after, Victor decides that he can’t do casual. He wants a boyfriend, not a booty call. *Ahem, he wants Benji, in case you didn’t pick up on that one*. So Victor stops seeing Nick. 

But then Nick comes around and decides that he is willing to try it out on Victor’s terms and this is where we stood back up and said, “Victor, really, why?”

But the kids are going to do what they want, and Victor starts dating Nick. 

During this time, Benji comes home from rehab and is shocked to find Victor already in a relationship with someone new. But he tells himself that Victor isn’t technically doing anything wrong, but it still hurts Benji anyway. 

But then Victor accepts an award for being gay (like really, Hulu?) and asks Nick to come to the acceptance speech. In the speech, Victor stands on that stage and makes it very clear to everyone in the audience, including his boyfriend NICK that he is still very much in love with Benji. 

Victor, really, why? That was a planned speech that you prepared before the event and then asked your new boyfriend to attend said event so he could watch you declare your love for your former boyfriend. Nick deserves much better. 

The ladies

We saw it coming last season, but as season 3 opens Lake (Bebe Wood) and Lucy (Ava Capri) are clearly into each other. As episode 1 kicks off, they’re making out and figuring out what exactly they mean to each other. 

It takes Lake a minute, but she decides that Lucy is her jam and she wants nothing more than to be permanently attached to Lucy’s hip. A.k.a – they become girlfriends. 

But then Lucy announces that she is graduating early and then getting the hell out of Creekwood. She is moving to Oregon, which is far, far away from Lake. Lake, understandably, doesn’t take the news well and goes into crisis mode. 

Lake decides she can’t “live in the now” (her words, not ours) and breaks up with Lucy, even though Lucy hasn’t actually left yet. 

We loved the inclusion of a queer female storyline in this show. We hope that more queer shows, especially ones geared towards teens, are more inclusive about including relationships between all sexualities and genders from the community in their stories. 

Happily ever after

Spoiler alert: everyone in this show ends up happily ever after. Like everyone. Mia (Rachel Hilson) moves to California to live with her dad, and she and Andrew (Mason Gooding) decide to do long distance. 

Pilar (Isabelle Ferriera) and Felix (Anthony Turpel) go through some turbulence, but as the show concludes, they’re patching things up too. Honestly, we can’t put our fingers on it but these two bug us so much! 

Lake and Lucy end up together, too. Hell, even the parents get back together. 

It’s alluded too that Nick ends up dating a gay kid from Victor’s school. Rahim ends up dating the waiter dude he meets at a restaurant, and yeah, Victor and Benji end up working out their issues and solidifying their relationship once and for all. 

Overall, we weren’t a huge fan of season 3. Victor was a butthead for most of the episodes and although we understand that he is a young adult and deserves the space to make mistakes after everything was said and done we didn’t really feel like he deserved any of the guys that graced his life during this time. Victor actually became one of our least favorite characters this season. We didn’t love that this was the ending to the entire show. The storybook and fairytale ending that the show got in juxtaposition to the mess that was season 3 didn’t feel good. We were hoping for and had come to expect more from this show. But it is what it is, right?

Anygays, in our position as captain of Team Rahim we are hereby petitioning Hulu for a Rahim spin-off. This character has SO much going for him and we strongly feel that he was, without a doubt, the absolute best part of this entire show. Without Rahim, we aren’t too sure y’all would have been able to hold our attention for this long. 

He stands up for what he believes in, he tries his best to be a good person always, and he is unapologetically queer. He refuses to pretend to be something he isn’t, and he holds those around him accountable for that as well. Our queer hearts pound for this dude and we want more Rahim, please, and thank you. 

There are lots of rumblings in social media spaces about how this show turned out. Have you watched it? If you have, drop us a comment on socials. We’re interested to hear your feelings on this one.

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