Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe mission and shortcomings of “Love, Simon” were laid bare in its very first line. “I’m just like you,” says Simon (Nick Robinson), an affable white high school kid who promptly introduces us to his happily married parents and upper middle-class home.
The thing that sets him apart, he continues, is that he’s secretly gay. What he doesn’t say, or even fully realize, is that the reason he can be secretly gay is because everything else about him reads as straight.
With one exception (that he often notes ultimately won’t be a problem for his liberal friends and family to accept), he’s living life at its lowest difficulty level.
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