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foreverunraveling · 2 months

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Is it just me, or does Young Royals really love to scare us, lull us into a false sense of security, and then pull the rug out from underneath us (in a way that's much worse than the original threat)?

For example, you see August clocking Wille leaving the movie before Simon in episode 2.

You (if you weren't too distracted by the scene itself) might have worried that he might show up when they were having their first kiss there. But he didn't. The show consciously created that tension and then relieved it as a foreshadowing of the much worse version of that to come later.

That tension is recreated at the end of episode 4 when August is shown outside a window at Forest Ridge.

There's a brief moment of relief--he's at Alex's window, not Wille's. While you know deep down where this has to be going, you still have a kernel of hope. And then even when he does make it to Wille's room, you can't tell it's a boy (let alone Simon) for five full seconds. Hope tries to stay alive. We all know how it ends, though--that tension snaps right back into our faces when August spots Wille and Simon moments later.

This happens on a different scale with Wille and Simon's planned weekend together in episode 3. When Wilhelm tells Simon that August will be staying at Forest Ridge, that introduces a tension of "will they get their weekend together?"

That tension of "will they get their weekend together" is relieved when Wille asks if he can come to Simon's in Bjarstad, only to AGAIN snap right back into our faces when a much bigger problem surfaces--Erik dies. So, they don't get their weekend anyways.

Hell, there's even a hint of this in episode 2 when August walks in on Wilhelm looking at Simon's Instagram before rowing practice. He doesn't actually see what Wille was doing, though--so it's okay--and he ends up taking a call from Erik.

In another way, this happens with Wilhelm and Felice's relationship from season 1 to season 2. She initially kisses him in episode 3, and we worry that he might just go with it. He doesn't, though. What a relief. In the next episode, though, once he's crown prince, Wilhelm is publicly flirting with Felice (despite her relationship with August) over how "cute" she looks in a video. But our worries about this fade with the release of the video and Felice's support into season 2...

Until they actually almost hook up in the third episode, that is.

And it's definitely not limited to Simon and Wille and their relationships. It comes up with Sara and August too. When he initially kisses her in episode 4 of season 1, you might worry that maybe Sara will respond in a less-than-healthy manner, or that she'll keep what happened to herself instead of telling Felice. Sara rebuffs him, though, and tells Felice about what happened in the stables later that episode.

Tension introduced and relieved, so we move on. But then in the final episode of season 1, Sara goes to August's room to confront him about the video. And she ends up kissing him. In season 2, they end up being in AN ENTIRE SECRET RELATIONSHIP that Sara keeps from Felice. The original fear that you might have had about August twisting his way into Sara's heart was well-founded, it seems.

There are also smaller examples. Like when you see Erik driving incredibly fast in episode 1, or when you see Wilhelm riding on the scooters with Simon, Rosh, and Ayub in episode 2, some people worried there might be some kind of accident. (He was going hands-free, for fuck's sake.)

Well, in both of those instances, everything turned out okay, while Erik's actual offscreen accident in episode 3 obviously did not.

The anxiety about Marcus catching Wilhelm and Simon kissing at the Valentine's party is momentarily alleviated when it looks like him and Simon are going inside, but then Marcus turns around and sees Wille (not to mention he sees Simon eyeing Wille throughout the entire song and during the applause).

Let's not even get started on the drugs. We thought that storyline was resolved, gone, done away with after Alexander was seemingly expelled during season 1.

But then he's back in season 2, and the question of whether anyone will tell Alex that Wilhelm was the one to pin the blame on him arises. It seems a minor issue--given that Alexander wasn't actually expelled, and he seems to like Wille, we don't necessarily expect it to matter all too much. In episode 6, though, the "drug thing" is back at the top of our list of problems. We thought that this had been dealt with! That we'd gotten past it!

But it's worse than before--there's a pill bottle with Simon's father's name on it, and August has it! August has a potential witness behind him (Alex) and is threatening to tell not just the school, but the cops!

Don't worry, though, the tension is relieved when Simon tells Wille he's not going to report August to the police... for approximately six seconds until we see that Sara is reporting August instead.

Anyways, following this pattern, you can draw some really interesting potential conclusions about season 3 based on some of the big tension reliefs that have occurred over the past two seasons. Not saying that any of these will happen, but I'm preparing myself for anything:

Wilhelm has some sort of drug OD—like Simon (and some of the audience, probably) worried on the night of the Society party. This is one I'm really hoping doesn't come up.

Wilhelm actually kills August—when Wilhelm puts that gun down, it's a massive relief for most of us (also the characters present). This would just be... wild. And would explain Omar's tweets about how crazy the season is, I guess.

Sara outs Stella's crush on Fredricka, like she was threatening to do when Felice was moving out of their room at the Manor House. Istg if she does this I might lose it.

Wilhelm's mother dies. This was definitely one idea on some people's minds when Wilhelm takes that call that turns out to be about Erik in episode 3.

Wilhelm actually abdicates. This is definitely a threat made in season 2 that was later assuaged. I'm pulling for Wilhelm taking the throne only to abolish the monarchy. That might be a bit too optimistic on my part, though.

ALTERNATIVELY, August gets the throne. They teased us with this when Wilhelm almost didn't give the speech. August was literally walking up to the podium when Wille leapt up to take his place and momentarily rescued us from the notion that August was going to be ascending the throne.

Wilhelm and/or Simon and/or Sara get pulled from Hillerska. After the video, both Simon and Sara were potentially not going to return to the school. Simon was even late for the first day back, when he missed the choir performance. And Wille was almost physically removed from the school in episode 2 of season 2. Given the statement in the trailer about the school potentially shutting down... this one doesn't seem like too much of a long shot.

It's hard to say what any of this could mean for Simon/Wilhelm's relationship—I mean, in season 1, we had about six instances where we thought we'd get Simon and Wilhelm together and originally didn't (the first music room scene, the conversation after Erik's memorial, the second music room scene/drug situation, the video leak, Wilhelm LYING about the video leak).... the reasons kept getting worse and worse, until there's a release of tension when Wille says he won't deny the video—only for it to be far more crushing when he does deny it having promised otherwise. It seems like there's a new, bigger problem every time they turn around. So far, they've overcome all of the obstacles they've faced (honestly, I don't know how)... but I can't imagine that they're about to be facing an easy course based on that trailer.

Anyways, these are my meandering thoughts about some ways that we can try to guess at what we might have coming based on the show's patterns and its use of foreshadowing. Like I said, I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself for some of the wild-ass shit that might go down. So these are some crazy scenarios based on a few fake-outs that we've had so far. I'm still hoping that they don't take the smallest, most hopeful bits of seasons 1 and 2 and crush them in season 3....

#young royals #simon × wilhelm #young royals netflix #wilmon #young royals analysis #young royals season 3 #yr s3 #young royals s3 #wilmon endgame #prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #it's also possible that I just see patterns everywhere even when they're not there because that's how my brain works #and nothing even adjacent to a tension we thought was relieved will come back to us in season 3 #maybe this is all just some trope that I don't know the name of--subversion??#maybe I'm just overthinking the storytelling #how will I survive once this show is over #help.... my entire brain is being held hostage by 10 hours of Swedish tv

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atomic-chronoscaph · 5 months

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Swedish Chef - The Muppet Show (1979)

#swedish chef gif #the muppet show gif #thanksgiving turkey #jim henson #70s tv show #richard hunt #bork bork bork #comedy show #puppets #seventies #1979 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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haveyouseenthisseries-poll · 4 months

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#tv series #tv shows #polls #pippi longstocking #inger nilsson #1960s series #swedish series #german series #have you seen this series poll

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imajinxnation · 20 days

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Me happily watching Swedish Dicks: 😊

My Mom: IS THERE A FUCKIN THING YOU WATCH WITHOUT KEANU REEVES IN IT!?!?

Me: Nope!!😊

#keanu reeves #keanu my beloved #john wick #keanu reeves characters #tex johnson #swedish dicks #movies #tv shows #john constantine #tom ludlow #ted logan #bill and ted #keanuverse

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suchamiracle-does-exist · 1 year

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#conrad veidt #polls #conrad veidt polls #certain kind of films you wish you'd seen?#a certain movie or a tv show where he should have been in?#'ingmarsarvet' (1925) is directed by finnish born swedish gustaf molander #i can imagine connie speaking swedish so why not scandinavian cinema is included 😄#imo he had continued working in hollywood + returned to germany when possible #can u imagine connie sitting in citroen dc or been dubbed in italian in a COLORFUL giallo?#connie in 'gaslight' (1940) in stead of anton walbrook?#or 'victim' (1961) in stead of dirk bogarde?#or deutsche krimis on telly?#hell yeah #impossible?#YEEES #ich und die kaiserin #own gif #own post

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duchessofvastergotland · 11 months

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How similar are the Swedish and Danish languages?

I don't speak either so I'm probably not a fantastic person to ask! But as far as I know when the Scandi royals get together they speak their own languages or a hybrid because they are close enough that they can understand each other. My understanding is that Danish is the hardest or "most different" of the three when spoken - and there are some clips out there of Victoria gently mocking Frederik's Danish pronunciations - but they might disagree and I very much do not want to wade into the Scandinavian rivalry hahaha.

#ask #foreverinthepagesofhistory #swedish royal family #danish royal family #I actually watched a tv show with a Norwegian character this week and I understood some of what she said #partly as she’s not Norwegian so it was Norwegian in a British accent #but also because Norwegian speech patterns are much clearer #the vocab is different but I can see why people can speak both #so yeah overlap is strong

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adaptationsvs-polls · 18 days

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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stuff-diary · 1 month

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Young Royals (Final season)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Young Royals (Final season, 2024, Sweden)

Creators: Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung & Camilla Holter

Directors: Julia Lindström, Jerry Carlsson & Linnéa Roxeheim

Mini-review:

We've finally reached the end of Young Royals, which has remained as enjoyable as always until its very last second. I must admit I felt like the show kept going in circles during these final episodes, and like maybe they took the angst a bit too far this time round. On top of that, sometimes subtlety went out the window when it came to handling certain social issues. But still, the finale itself was so f**king perfect and cathartic that it more than made up for any problems. I will definitely miss this show, cause these characters are so well-written and brilliantly-acted that you can't help but immerse yourself in their world.

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spacetortoisenavigator · 9 months

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So i've just started studying swedish for an exchange i might be able to do in one year, and i'm looking for stuff to read/watch/listen to in swedish, outside of those resources that are traditionally for language learners. It doesn't matter what level it is; in the worst of cases, it will give me something to look forward to understanding. So i'm asking all swedish speakers who happen to see this:

Is there any book, or show, or youtube channel, or podcast, or media in general that's in swedish and that you'd recommend to me?

I'd be interested in about anything, but here are some possible subjects (anything outside of them is fine too):

History

Food

Gaming content (e.g. let's players)

Science (incl. math and computer science)

Fantasy stuff

Sci-fi

Roleplaying (e.g. DnD)

Knitting, crocheting, etc.

Art, drawing, etc.

Hopefully this won't disappear in the void of tumblr, and thanks a lot to anyone who answers!

#langblr #swedish #sweden #reading #listening #book recommendations #music recs #scandinavia #immersion #youtube channels #tv shows #asking for help #thanks everyone #i'm new here #language exposure #run out of tag ideas #thankssssssss

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rickchung · 4 months

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Börje: The Journey of a Legend (prod. Martin Bengtsson).

Crave's six-episode biographical miniseries about the life of Swedish ice hockey player and Toronto Maple Leafs legend Börje Salming (played by Valter Skarsgård) tells his remarkable journey humble beginnings all the way to the NHL.

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haveyouseenthisseries-poll · 5 months

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#tv series #tv shows #polls #young royals #edvin ryding #omar rudberg #2020s series #swedish series #have you seen this series poll

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maxothy · 2 years

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not me learning Swedish just bc of Young Royals 💀

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kraniumet · 5 months

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#dubs not counted.#in sweden someone could write a book set in England and it would not be seen as super weird but if you made a tv show set in England #where everyone was speaking Swedish that would be super weird #but i dont parse the uk wallander (set in sweden) to be the same level of weird

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marinah2oblue · 9 months

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Swedish Dicks 1X1

#swedish dicks #peter stormare #johan glans #tv #yall more ppl need to see this show!

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ibelievedinunicorns · 2 years

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november 🫶🏻

#young royals #lgbtq #gay romance #tv shows #sweden #swedish tv #gay #simon yr #wilhelm yr #edvin ryding #omar rudberg #cinema

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damn-right-reo · 9 months

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Turns out young royals is back on their bullshit in (most of) s2

again with the emotional pain guys

s2e1: “simon: goes out with another guy* wille: threatens the entire monarchy and tries to renounce his title”

s2e2: “the queen wants to see august at the palace. He does not looked pleased with this. Also, wille knows for sure that Simon on went out with Marcus.”

s2e3: okay so this one wasn’t as bad “wille appears to have wrecked things with felice. They lost the rowing match(?) and simon quit the team. The queen doesn’t think wille can handle taking over.”

s2e4: this one was actually pretty good. I can only really think of one thing which is “I’m pretty sure Marcus saw wille and suspects that he and Simon were up to something”

s2e5: okay so I actually can’t think of anything about this ending. maybe “August is going to get in trouble with the police when Simon reports him”?

s2e6: OH MY JESUS CHRIST!! This was the best one yet! However “wille confessed to being in the video and a shit ton of people took videos so it’s gonna be on their internet soon, and the queen and her gang are pissed so wille will have to deal with the consequences” and “Sara called the cops to report a crime, but we don’t know her plan with that yet and it could turn south” also wille smiled when he looked into the camera?!

*(Is that even what it was though? I don’t remember if simon did it in the context of a date or not)

#Young royals #is all Swedish tv like this #Should I be worried for the swedish #I was just looking for a goofy little gay show #Not more trauma #Spn gave me enough #They did get increasingly better though #Kudos to you

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