Reacting to Young Royals Season 3 - Episode 4
Added 2024-03-22 06:00:02 +0000 UTCGooooood morning beautiful Patreon family,
Welcome back to another Young Royals reaction! I hope you have all recovered from the outcome of the final episode! Today we are jumping in to episode 4 and it's safe to say I am STRESSED!!!
See you in the comments,
Love, always ♥️
Comments
I should not have watched this during my lunch break at work...
Erin
2024-03-25 16:53:57 +0000 UTCI really feel so bad for August
Elena de Haan
2024-03-24 23:11:02 +0000 UTCFurther to what others have already said, I think August is carrying a lot of shame arising from the initiation. Although he was a victim, being forced to strip naked and being humiliated, especially as Erik was one of the instigators, has created a sense of disgust with his own body. I think that’s one of the reasons that Sara becomes so important to him, because having a close, physical and emotional connection with her allowed him to begin to partially heal himself. Now that they’re apart, he’s forced back into trying to cope with the past trauma alone and he and Nils don’t seem to have any solution other than not allowing anyone to find out what really happened to them. The fact that he tells Wille is in my opinion as much about August needing to tell the awful truth about it as any other motive.
Ruth May
2024-03-24 21:52:04 +0000 UTCSame here! 💜
Ingrid Machado Pena
2024-03-23 17:11:07 +0000 UTCOh I do believe that August knew exactly how it would affect Wilhelm. Though this time around it was completely understandable why he lashed out. I know August has a habit of hurting others when he’s hurting, but if someone was using a person’s perceived perfect character as a way to attack me, like Wille was doing, and I knew that person wasn’t as perfect as everyone thought, I would have defended myself by telling the truth as well. Wasn’t the right way to go about it, but you’re right; Wille needed to know. He needs to stop trying to achieve that false sense of perfection. But as traumatised as August is and boy does he need a boatload of therapy, same as Wille, he knew exactly how that would hurt.
Shanelle Maria
2024-03-23 15:48:58 +0000 UTCI think you were forgetting they didn't have their phones. Also I don't think the staff would let uber eats deliver the food. I imagine the WiFi was turned off or signal blocked so they can't use the Internet on the laptop. Teenagers would absolutely joke like Henry and Walter even in class. I don't know what your school experience was like but I have worked with young people who will say things just to try and provoke a reaction from you. Teenagers don't have perfect communication skills. The staff will give in a lot as the students are privileged and that is one of the main themes of the series. Showing how the rich avoid consequences of their actions. The royal court don't want to help Simon as they don't want the relationship to succeed. It's not as unrealistic as you think. Look at how Kate and Megan were treated by the press. Apparently the royals won't support you at all until you are engaged. As others have said August is not being nasty. It's important that Willhelm learns that Eric wasn't perfect and did awful things. No one in this show is all good and all bad. Willhelm had put Eric on a pedestal and is trying to live up to this perfect image of him which isn't healthy. August is a traumatised boy who has suppressed his experience.
Jayne Riley
2024-03-23 00:12:26 +0000 UTCNo other show is ever going to make feel the way Young Royals does. I'm tearing up just thinking about this show.
Jayne Riley
2024-03-22 23:47:00 +0000 UTCthere was a funny moment in the q&a about the lollypop scene that made me laugh - Simon was originally going to share the lollypop with Wille, but Edvin didn't want to share the same one. and Edvin just yells "you had a cold man!" it was to confusing to use 2 separate ones instead. i would have loved to see them sharing it though.
Dan
2024-03-22 23:01:05 +0000 UTCI have agree with other comments that August telling Wille about Erik was not him being a nasty piece of work. He was just trying to definitely end the assumption that he didn't know Erik. It was clearly something that has caused August a lot of pain, and here was Wille, over several episodes, saying that only he knew Erik and that August did not know his brother, etc. It was important that Wille hear that Erik was a different person around his friends than around his family. It will give him a better perspective on who Erik was as a whole person. I also feel that this revelation is the explanation for August's eating disorder, which is finally stated plainly in the same episode after being subtext only for 2.5 seasons. Outside of the explicit film, being forcibly stripped down and laughed at by your peers is going to f*ck you up. He has a lot of lasting trauma from his initiation and has passed it down to others in various ways. I hope he is able to seek help in the future.
Rowan Cannell
2024-03-22 21:00:50 +0000 UTCI think Malte is the standout actor from this season of Young Royals. He is managing to make me feel for a character that I dislike. He is also playing a character with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and he is doing it fantastically well. He has been traumatised (father's death, the initiation, Wille pointing a gun at him, etc.) and he lives in a heightened state of stress then the rest of his classmates and we see that with his obsessive working out, his need for approval and perfection. The mask that he always wears (except around Sara). This show has been so well written and the puzzle pieces are all falling into place really well.
Rosie Dickinson
2024-03-22 20:45:14 +0000 UTCThere are a number of good comments here that would never have occurred to me, so I will just agree that Malte really is impressing me, particularly in this season, playing a character who could so easily have been written and acted as a stereotypical villain. August is instead a very complex character, in a combination of intelligent writing and his impressive performance. Malte and Edvin’s strength as actors is one of the reasons I feel as though the scenes between August and Wille practically crackle with energy.
Lane Wright
2024-03-22 18:14:32 +0000 UTCThe idea for the letter to his future "self" probably came from Edvin. He once said in an interview that he wrote a letter to himself when he was 16 and didn't open it until after he graduated.
miniadler
2024-03-22 16:09:37 +0000 UTCI’m sure that other shows, however good, won’t touch me in the ways that Young Royals has.
Ruth May
2024-03-22 14:57:56 +0000 UTCI always thought that Malte was a fine actor and now, in season 3, I think he’s just brilliant in conveying all of his character’s past trauma while still allowing us to feel ambivalent towards him because of the ways in which he’s still inflicted damage on others.
Ruth May
2024-03-22 14:55:42 +0000 UTCwow. id never thought about that factor. you’re 100% right.
LM-Entertainment Australia
2024-03-22 12:31:03 +0000 UTCThe fact that Erik expected that Wille would go through the same initiation he inflicted on August, without any warning is also shocking. He just told Wille to do what the Third Years tell him to do. The reality of what Erik expected to happen is heartbreaking now.
Dionne Lakey
2024-03-22 12:29:12 +0000 UTCthe only saving grace (while not minimising the fact the initiation wille went through was still horrible) is that august had the sense to make sure future students didnt go through the same extreme humiliation he did with porn, stripped naked etc.
LM-Entertainment Australia
2024-03-22 12:20:48 +0000 UTCPerfect what you've written here. It becomes so much more complex. Also meta. Students get hurt by what was done to them and continue to inflict the same hurt on the next students. Their parents, the same. Is the cycle ever broken for the elite. It's needed as a device I think to keep the status quo. Makes me think about Felice's mum wanting her to have the exact same experience as she did at school.
Dionne Lakey
2024-03-22 12:17:05 +0000 UTCI also don’t think that August told Wilhelm about Erik to intentionally stress him. Wilhelm was the one who said several times that August didn’t know Erik… I think he needed to get it off of his chest. And that really shocked me as well and I truly felt sorry for August and Nils. Not so much for Vincent cause he didn’t seem to be bothered (as far as I can tell) by what happened to them. And he’s an ass anyway….
Frances
2024-03-22 12:10:33 +0000 UTCSame in Germany 😅
Frances
2024-03-22 11:42:06 +0000 UTCI know august is the ‘villain’ of this show but that ending brought me to tears. Hearing him explain what happened to him with such sadness and emptiness… you can tell it hurt him to admit that he was scared and wow malte is truly great because I was so emotional after that
rachael
2024-03-22 11:20:03 +0000 UTCthe revelations in this episode about erik and the initiation that august and his classmates went through changes the perspective of a lot of his previous actions. he had gone through that initiation process prior to the videoing of wille & simon together - and more importantly, to uploading it. it's fantastic writing and also makes the characters even more complex. at the time of videoing wille and simon and realising what he was seeing - we saw the look off into the distance and shock on august's face. it makes you wonder in that moment if he was thinking about whether erik knew about wille's sexuality back when august knew him. also, because august has been traumatised - it makes more sense as to why he watched the video he took multiple times - probably digging up a lot of memories of that initiation he went through and wondering how wille could "be like that." the most devastating though is that if it wasn't a disgusting enough act for august to upload it to the internet and expose wille to the world - it's more disgusting now. august has been traumatised by what he experienced as discussed with nils earlier in this season and how he wouldnt want any of what they went to "put into the public." that makes his act so much worse - because despite how wrecked he was from the initiation, he still went and exposed wille and simon to the world, knowing even moreso now the effect it would have. it's crazy because despite that making what he did even worse, you still feel sympathy towards august for what he went through (which i guess it is ok to have both feelings towards august).
LM-Entertainment Australia
2024-03-22 11:17:26 +0000 UTCI'm thinking about the trauma that inflicted on August, you can see in August's eyes how hurt he was by that. Imagine his idol, his cousin doing that to him and not even saving him from the humiliation in the moment. He now has body dismorphia after being stripped naked and humiliated for his body's functions in front of his seniors in his first year at high school. It has led to an eating disorder. Whether or not you are gay, your body's abilities to get aroused by sexual acts are not a sign of homosexuality, but they still would have been ridiculed by it. Julia Shaw criminal psychologist talks about how these methods were used in the past to out people in professional environments and were inconclusive for biological reasons. You can hear her speak about it in the Homo Sapiens podcast epispde: Why do we skip over bisexuality? She's also written a book about it. https://open.spotify.com/episode/34StWLOneCN9HRUTxtc9Ps?si=MfJ5aU8TRCKBNEGDudtswg August can't talk about how that made him feel with anyone, not even Nils who is equally as traumatised. Well perhaps Boris, the therapist. But yes, Wille wasn't someone he should have spoken to about it. Though this will really hurt Wille to know about Erik, I think it's good that he may no longer strive to be like the perfect ideal he has of Erik as a person and Crown Prince in his head. He may eventually give himself grace for his own failings, knowing that Erik was human after all.
Dionne Lakey
2024-03-22 11:12:55 +0000 UTCAt 38:01 Omar's delivery of that line. Beautiful
MIchelle Arbery
2024-03-22 08:49:39 +0000 UTCDo Sara's outfits mean something? She is in the Simon camp ??
MIchelle Arbery
2024-03-22 08:31:36 +0000 UTCI do have to take back a comment about episode 1 production not being as good as previous seasons. It has all come together beautifully from episode 3. Usual high standard of editing, lighting etc. I'm worried so many shows in the future will pale in comparison.
MIchelle Arbery
2024-03-22 08:27:32 +0000 UTCIn Denmark that “comment” situation is an everyday thing - lol. That is completely normal.
IAmom
2024-03-22 08:19:08 +0000 UTCThe thing that strikes me (no pun intended 😉) about this episode is that it deals with a key secret that might make everyone involved look very different, particularly Erik, but also, crucially, August. It’s already been indicated that his letter to himself is a very sensitive issue, that he’s reluctant to share. Now, he’s alluding to something in which Erik participated that was clearly not a joke and was actually really traumatic. It isn’t just that Wille is going to have to view his brother differently, we’re perhaps beginning to see August in a different light too. Secrets are a recurring theme in Young Royals and always have destructive potential, but now this one is going to force Wille to see his brother as a real, flawed human being rather than the saint he had turned into in his memory. That’s painful but maybe also necessary. Perhaps certain things have to implode before they can be done with so that the characters involved are freed from their influence. August telling Wille about the initiation could be seen as vindictive and spiteful, but it might also be seen as cathartic for him and enlightening for Wille. As regards Simon and Wille, when they’re alone together, it’s not fundamentally changed- they’re both very much in love and there’s a stillness around their moments together, often with no other sounds and in a shot which frames them in close up portrait. The shot of them sitting in the window echoes the first kiss scene at the movie night and reminds us that this relationship is one that began out of magnetic attraction; now that external factors are beginning to bite for both of them, how far they’ve come from that first tentative kiss is really being put to the test. Side note: You look emotionally exhausted when you are finishing these YR reactions. I can relate! 🤯😵💫😴 But that’s such a testament to the show, that we’re so invested, so drawn into the world of these characters and their stories. ❤️👑❤️
Ruth May
2024-03-22 08:13:59 +0000 UTCYes I'm an English speaker with a very little bit of understanding or Swedish and the translations lose alot of the nuance in the scenes. The performances compensate a bit, thankfully they are so strong.
MIchelle Arbery
2024-03-22 08:13:18 +0000 UTCOkay, I watched it but I don’t have time to write a proper comment so I will just leave you with this. The reason they didn’t Uber eat or whatever is that none of them had their phone as they were still under lock and key at that point which is partly why they were striking to begin with.
Audrey Gunn
2024-03-22 07:58:58 +0000 UTCI agree sometimes the subs feel like they give a different connotation or feel than what they actually say
veri✨
2024-03-22 07:44:50 +0000 UTCI went to Highschool in Sweden and yea 😂😂😂 people definitely said that kind of thing….also I imagine they didn’t ubereats or anything because they don’t have phones 😅 but yeah I definitely think learning about Erik was a major turning point for Wille and truly challenged his beliefs about his brother and the system he’s grown up in
veri✨
2024-03-22 07:43:13 +0000 UTCThanks for this reaction <3 I have to say that the subtitles in English are weird sometimes.... Swedes - chime in. I am Danish but sometimes I feel like the English subtitles do not convey what is being said... Not to mention the actual English which is also awful ;)
IAmom
2024-03-22 07:34:17 +0000 UTCDon’t have time just now, will watch it later 😊
Audrey Gunn
2024-03-22 06:56:40 +0000 UTCInsomnia working out OK for me tonight... thought this show isn't exactly the most calming thing to watch at 2 am.
Rowan Cannell
2024-03-22 06:05:06 +0000 UTC
