rewatching House Of Anubis has me reflecting on how batshit that show is. some executive was like "okay hear me out. an american student goes abroad to a british boarding school, shows up right after a student goes missing and then immediately proceeds to be sent on a riddle laden hunt for stolen artifacts from tutankhamen's tomb. yeah, no, she ropes her entire house into it and they all have astronomical beef with their headmaster who hates them so so bad. oh the headmaster? no, he's not a teacher or anything. he's the ringleader of an egyptian cult dedicated to finding the elixir of eternal life along with the rest of the school's staff and they have 0 issue if it means shortening the lives of their students with creepy scales of life. the cellar of their house is where they do their rituals and it's full of taxidermied animals. we were hoping to put this on nickelodeon btw!"
I need at least 7 business days before I can process cherry magic ep 9 but the fact that they moved in together after two dates and having not even kissed sent me to SPACE who is doing it like them
Water is a metaphor for feelings in Young Royals but damn if it isn't in everything I've watched since I learnt of this. The shower scene in Tore!!! My Grandma's a Lesbian where the two who fell in love was drowned by heavy rain in the beginning! Even in Forever, a sports movie I watched bc it's Swedish, about girls, and has queer subtext. Most useful metaphor I've learnt thanks to Young Royals.
And yet, and yet. NOTHING I've seen has taken the water metaphor so far and so deep as Young Royals has! Both temperature of the water and its taste is relevant! And it's everywhere, from bitter coffee to sweet tea to phallic water fountains to nasty spit to shallow rowing to rain to ice cold snow on the sircus karaoke date, to warm showers for warm feelings (that's why we never got any cute snow scenes - it clashes with the metaphor). The winter was a low point in Wilmon's relationship to the point they didn't have one, but with spring came a return of their emotional relationship. Feel free to draw conclusions for season 3 based on this information.
Young Royals is a masterclass in cinematography - the more I'm learning and looking at how other shows and movies compare in their uses of paralles, metaphores and symbolism, the more impressed I am of Young Royals.
Yes, I was simping for Mizu the entire season- very sexy how they were always covered in blood and filled with an unquenchable rage.
But, you know what really brought me to my knees??
Akemi, standing tall, chin raised, silhouetted by the burning palace filled with soldiers slowing dying because she trapped them inside, saying “I want to be great”
love to discuss pr strategies for rehabbing the public image of our abusive father as our legacy media brand, the lifeblood of our fortune and fame, asks the hard-hitting questions such as 'do we really need to worry about robots being body shamed?'
one of the things that made me smile about last week’s cherry magic was how when achi is comforting karan he’s like “I used to just think you were handsome but now I’ve realized you’re both hot AND smart??” he’s perfect to me
I also defend Tommy Shelby too. He is my 3rd bad boy crush after Antonio Montana🤤it was always Michael Corleone and Tony Montana until Tommy Shelby came along. I will defend him til the end of time. His cold eyes don’t scare me at all. His silence makes me weak. Season 3-4 is peak Tommy Shelby I understand why Grace came back for him lol