Netflix‘s newest series about royal drama is one part The Crown and two parts Gossip Girl, and we can already feel the impending binge.
Young Royals is about, get this, young royals. In particular, Swedish prince Wilhelm, who arrives at the prestigious Hillerska boarding school where he “gets an opportunity to explore his true self and find out what kind of life he really wants.”
What he really wants turns out to be one of his male classmates, and Wilhelm starts, “dreaming of a future filled with freedom and unconditional love far away from the royal obligations – but when he unexpectedly becomes next in line for the throne his dilemma is heightened as he has to make a choice. Love or duty.”
Sounds awfully dramatic, and judging by the recently released trailer, pretty steamy.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Young Royals premiers on Netflix on July 1.
Check out the trailer below:
Essie
That doesn’t look interesting at all!!
Bengali
Looks steamy.
Sidenote: This show is of course broadcast in English. But don’t forget about some of the wonderful movies that are subtitled. Super easy to follow. Our brains adjust to subtitles rather quickly and does not interfere with enjoyment of the movie or program. I deprived myself of so many wonderful LGBT films because I convinced myself I didn’t have the attention span for subtitles. So wrong. It actually clarifies many plot points.
Some recommendations including a few in English:
Esteros
Best Friends
Tae Kwon Do (not a martial arts movie)
Between Love and Goodbye
Le fate ignoranti (His Secret Life – not the Lifetime movie)
Front Cover (in English)
Partying Glances (in English)
Love Simon (in English)
Enjoy.
Bramptonite
Don’t forget the Spanish show Elite. So many cute guys.
I also liked Special too
linedrive
I love Esteros! Just watched it (again) over the weekend.
Rocinante
I am addicted to movies so even back in those old days in 2009 I would run out of movies to rent at Blockbuster and rented a lot of foreign gay movies. I found they are higher quality than most American gay movies, better acting, dialogue and story. The great part about sub-titles is you actually have to pay attention and put the iPad down. One thing I found is that the most consistent quality gay content came from France, Nordic countries and Germany. However, that’s not meant to discount some of the really good ones I watched from South America, Argentina and Brazil primarily.
I started using English subtitles for all shows when I met my husband who didn’t speak great English, Brazil, it helped him understand better. Well, haven’t needed them in years but I won’t watch TV without them now. I pay more attention and get more out of the show. I think all the available foreign content people are watching might drag the ignorance out of the American Psyche, at least around their lack of exposure to other cultures.
CityguyUSA
Subtitles depend on the film. If there’s a lot of dialogue you can spend all your time reading and you don’t enjoy the acting or some of the subtitles move so fast you can’t read them fast enough. While others only subtitle half the conversation and you end up with the same subtitle for multiple frames and you know the conversation has moved on.
Karlis
If you haven’t seen it, find a copy of Cage Aux Folles from France. The version released in America with Robin Williams was far too PC for my tastes, and the French original is just delightful!
Bubbleandsqueal
What’s the Swedish word for “twinkalicious”?
Also noting some unconvincing “Woke Casting” among the schoolgirls).
barryaksarben
how woke? the black girl is playing the child of a wealthy rap artist or in the words used to desribe ber “new royalty” so you sound a little racist actually if that was YOUR point
ShiningSex
might be good, but the music is hideous.
michel_banen
Mmm… not really convinced yet. Not everything with a gay storyline is immediately interesting. Hot, steamy and a good storyline… tha’s ELITE to me.
bsg1967
Yeah tad young for my tastes I like men not children
Terrycloth
I buy movies & porn from TLA gay.they have a great selection of gay movies yet in description in brochure. It never states if they are subtitled or not. I prefer no subtitles..I would buy more but hate to buy a few to find they are subtitled…you are either reading missing action on screen or missing dialogue watching the action..sometimes they go by too fast or printed to small.
ducdebrabant
I don’t think it looks so “steamy,” nor should it. It looks interesting and involving, though. I don’t watch TV just to get turned on.