Young Royals giv sight to what happens when a gay teenager is hand the crown and has to choose between his sexualy and his duty as a royal.
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IS YOUNG ROYALS THE NEW GOSSIP GIRL? FANS BEG FOR SEND SEASON OF NEW NETFLIX SHOW DUBBED 'GAY, TEENAGE VERSN OF THE CROWN' AS TELLS TALE OF SWEDISH PRCE EXPLORG HIS SEXUALY AT BOARDG SCHOOL
Pictured: Edv Rydg as Prce Wilhelm'Young Royals is fely a level up on Netflix's talogue, and they released after pri month and makg purely as a queer story, not jt some another profable trash gay si storyle. While Simon is out as a gay teen, Wilhelm’s the closet and still tryg to make sense of his sexualy. While beg love wh Simon do urge Wilhelm to start beg more fortable wh beg gay, thgs change for the worst when Erik di durg an accint and Wilhelm’s tapulted to the role of kg-to-be.
Wilhelm’s got to figure out his duty as kg-to-be and how that would work wh him beg gay. Young Royals is Netflix’s brand new Swedish seri wh sight to what happens when a gay teenager is hand the crown and has to choose between his sexualy and his duty as a Wilhelm is forced to go to Hillerska Boardg School after reckls behavur, though the punishment fds him love as he meets Simon; this is when thgs get get even more plex when Wilhelm’s olr brother sudnly di and the royal crown is hand down to him. Every streamg service seems to have somethg the genre to f a need, whether that be a gay protagonist, a female hero, or an ensemble st.
The problem is that far too often the g out procs is the only foc, and all of the other dynamics of gay teenage life get shelved and unr-examed. Young Royals giv you a negligible amount of hand-holdg when to spellg out the sexualy of the two protagonists: Simon mentns one nversatn wh his dad that he is gay, and Wilhelm’s own mgs are so foced on the former that we know immediately how smten he is wh his charmg classmate. The tense romantic energy is so new, raw, and real that there is no need for anybody to e out; ’s obv that the two are gay as hell for each other and that disvery is absolutely betiful.