February 9, 2024
Watch: Trailer Drops for "Young Royals" Final Sizzling Season
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
A new trailer shows some of what's in store as the steamy Netflix drama "Young Royals" launches into its third and final season and the gay couple at the show's heart try for a happily ever after.
"'Young Royals' will have a split premiere on Netflix this March," Teen Vogue reported, detailing that "episodes 1 through 5 will drop on March 11, followed by the series finale on March 18."
The show is show about privileged students at an elite school who have complicated love lives. "Young Royals" centers around a celebrity student at an elite school, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, and his boyfriend Simon Eriksson. As Season 2 ended, the lovers had become caught up in a scandal around a sex tape – one that the prince acknowledged as genuine.
The two haven't been driven apart, judging from the new season's trailer, which starts off with a blizzard of suggestive images of the two swimming, flirting, and, finally, kissing.
But they are less enchanted with the world around them. "I just wish we could have a private life!" one of them anguishes as the two are chauffered past a throng of paparrazzi.
"Meanwhile, Felice and Sara so need to have a conversation, and August seems to have perfected his brand of Augustness," Teen Vogue relayed. "Even Hillerska is in trouble, this time around facing an investigation that could result in the school's closure."
"But season 3 promises a changed world after Wilhelm's confession," the writeup added. "His speech has consequences, and the tension threatens to shatter everything."
In one charged scene, the prince is chided over the scandal: "You're supposed to be able to take over from me" as the country's ruler, he's told.
No pressure!
"What if I don't want to?" Prince Wilhelm wonders – evidently a major theme of the season, with the trailer posing the question again and again as to whether the monarchy is still a good idea.
At another moment it's revealed that there's an "increased threat level against the Crown Prince" – presumably because he's gay.
Will this particular romantic fable have a happy ending?
Watch the trailer, below.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
