Young Royals Season 2 Recap - It's still perfect!

[@Internetrando]

Re: the Season 1 ending, I Iiked it because I often prefer open-ended, but hopeful endings rather than an explicit happily ever after. (It's why I loved the ending of Normal People as well). Anyway, Young Royals really stuck the landing this time around too, and I loved it. Now we wait for S3!!! xoxo 🙂

[@MadisonPollard]

Thank you for the well done recap!

[@Internetrando]

You’re welcome! Halfway through S3 E1, I had to come back and watch it as well. :)

[@67Second]

I have really enjoyed your essays on the Young Royals seasons. Not really new information, of course, because I've seen both seasons several times but I like your reporting style and your enthusiasm for the series. I particularly love this series for Lisa Ambjörn's (creator and head writer and her crew) writing style. She writes like she was composing a classical symphony. She will strike a chord somewhere early on and, if you watch carefully, that chord will be resolved somewhere else later on. The "fish scene" in season one is a prime example. In a very romantic scene in season one Wille asks the names of Simon's fish and Simon names them. In season 2 Markus asks the same question and Simon says "They don't have names." The fish names was a Wilmon thing. Another cool bookend is Wille's brother Erik counting down their escape from the photographers to begin Wille's life at Hillerska. And Simon and Ayub counting down their goodnight as Simon tries to decide what he is going to do about he and Wille. Note, by the way, the nice cinematic touch at that point. Wille's ambient light in his dorm room is red. As Simon switches off his bed light, the lava lamp at his bed side turns red. Simon has made his choice.

[@Internetrando]

I love these extra notes and observations, thank you! I kept "saving" my S1 rewatch, but I'll definitely do a leisurely rewatch of both now. The writer and her team are extraordinarily talented, so I'll be on the look out for any more of her work if its been translated. :)

[@irish4329]

Yes Omar Rydberg is a singer in real life. He is quite famous in Sweden. He was part of a boy band called FO&O before he went out on his own. Sara and August are the same age but different years because Sara was held back due to bullying at another school.

[@Internetrando]

Ah got it, thanks! To me she looks so much younger than the others, I forget. :)

[@gerganakantcheva8176]

@@Internetrando Sara is 17, a year younger than August who's 18 and she's a year older than Simon. She's in the same school year as Simon because of that one year she was held back because of the severe bullying at their former school.

[@TkK1122]

Thanks for the recap ❤️💕

[@EmberC]

In E1, Simon was not composing a song, he was singing an actual song by Cherrie named as "aldrig igen"

[@Internetrando]

Oh thank you!

[@EmberC]

@@Internetrando and marcus had red flags...

[@Internetrando]

@@EmberC wait no, really?! I’m blind because I didn’t see any red flags! Lol. I even felt kinda bad for Marcus, because he was hardly even Simon’s second choice really, he was just kinda there and an easy little crush for Simon to have while he tried to move on from W. I’ll definitely pay more attention on my rewatch.

[@EmberC]

@@Internetrando you need to watch the stable scene in E3 again, but this time carefully. There was a major red flag about his comment on Simon's daddy issues. There were other red flags too, throughout the show.