The premiere of “Young Highnesses” in the summer of 2021 introduced a new beloved couple in the canon of LGBTQ+ stories, the one formed by Simon and Wilhelm. His story continued in a second season last November and, Thankfully it will have an ending, as Netflix has renewed the Swedish series..
A month and a half after the premiere of its second chapter, the streaming platform has announced that ‘Young Highnesses’ It will have a third season, but this will be the last.. This is bittersweet news, because even if it means the series ends, at least we can be sure it won’t remain unfinished. And in the current scenario, where it is increasingly difficult for a Netflix series to go beyond the first season, and even more so from the second, we can be satisfied.
Simon + William forever?
Young Royals will return for a third and final season. pic.twitter.com/zJZJMRlyEU
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*“Simon + William forever?
‘Young Highnesses’ will return for a third and final season.”
For those unfamiliar with it, ‘Young Highnesses’ is a romantic teen drama created by Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung and Camilla Holter, in which a middle-class student falls in love with the heir to the Swedish throne in an exclusive elite academy . The series chronicles the burgeoning relationship between the two, complicated by Wilhelm’s position as lieutenant of the monarchy, as well as the personal lives of his fellow academies. ‘Young Highnesses’ has been praised for its naturalness when it comes to reflecting teenagers (acne included) and for its tenderness in telling a strange story of first love. The series has drawn comparisons to ‘Skam’, ‘The Crown’ and (later) ‘Heartstopper’, and has a legion of fans eager to see Simon and Wilhelm again. And most importantly, have a happy ending.
Sapphic love is not so lucky on Netflix
Netflix’s relationship with the LGBTQ+ community is complicated. There’s no denying that the streaming platform is one of the platforms with the strongest commitment to representation and diversity, with a high level of titles featuring characters and a queer focus (most recently, ‘Smiley’). But for some time, his frequent cancellations of female-led LGBTQ+ series (known as “wlw”) have provoked criticism in part of the public. The last to fall was ‘The Warrior Nun’, but the list is already long: ‘Everything is shit’, ‘Two bullets lost’, ‘This shit surpasses me’, ‘The first death’… The news The revamp of ‘Young Highnesses’, as was the case with the double revamp of ‘Heartstopper’, has led many to wonder if Netflix has a problem with Sapphic content.
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