Season 2 of the Swedish teen series Young Royals premiered on Netflix on November 1, picking up at the start of the spring semester for the group of private school teens.
Prince Wilhelm (Edvin Ryding), the series’ protagonist and reluctant heir to the throne, is caught in the aftermath of being publicly outed on tape by August (Malte Gårdinger), his second cousin and the troubled popular boy at school.
August is a menace in every sense of the word, causing the dissolution of the beloved relationship between Simon (Omar Rudberg) and Wilhelm, and putting Wilhelm through absolute hell.
Despite causing everyone’s problems, he’s also magnetic, troubled, and ridiculously charming at times, a “bad boy” that constantly challenges our determination to hate him.
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