people deserve “Queer media about all kinds
of queer people, royal or otherwise, young or old.
of the usual tropes ensue: Simon must be kept a secret because Wille doesn’t want to come out, for one. Everything is turned up a notch under the royal spotlight, and familiar as many of these plot points feel, they remain dynamic and engaging; the highs feel high, the lows low. I came to YR first through the internet and then through my friends. I’d heard my housemates gushing over Ryding and Rudberg – Swedish actors I had never heard of – and when I finally had time to start a new show I convinced my sister to join me. Soon
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we were peppering our sentences with random Swedish words we’d picked up, waiting all day until we could sink back into the couch and our Swedish drama. We are 22 and 27, and yet found ourselves obsessed with the lives of these high schoolers. My sister (the 27-yearold, to be clear) went on to recommend Young Royals to many of her friends, all her age and older. The show reliably hooked them all. Young Royals strikes a delicate balance between realism and melodrama, I think, because much of the show deals with heavy, relevant topics. There are
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