Love, Victor Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

2. Too Much Happens Off-Screen

As great as the story that Love, Victor tells ultimately is, it does fall victim to a number of cliches along the way. The most annoying of those cliche's is the recurring problem of plot developments taking place off-screen.

Over the course of the season, there are multiple occasions where it feels like the plot conveniently relies on time-jumps so that it could avoid potential inconsistencies in the narrative. An example of this could include the fact that there is no fallout from Mia's initial disdain for Veronica, which is then swept under the carpet by a number of awkwardly placid interactions between them (before that disdain later resurfaces). The time-jumps make it difficult to gauge the dynamic between them and can therefore be relied on as a crutch to force some more conflict without every having to wrap up the original incident.

There is nothing wrong with a few developments happening off-screen, but as the show goes on, it gets a little too reliant on this plot device.