I started to feel, as a viewer, the bubbling frustrations at life’s ability to get in the way of intimacy - the feeling of scarcity. Any moment the two share together feels like it might (and usually does) get interrupted, witnessed, or recorded.
Even more frustrating to watch is their schoolmate August, finding any given moment to interrupt Wilhelm and Simon’s private scenes throughout the season. We learn about the discrimination Simon faces from his schoolmates and teachers for being an outsider of class, race, and sexuality.īut what seems to move at the slowest pace is the central relationship, withheld by Wilhelm’s uncertainty around his own sexuality and the pressures of being royalty. The show moves through plot quickly, from a character’s death, drug dealing gone wrong, and social media scandals. Over six episodes, a lot - perhaps too much - seems to occur. Once at school, we quickly learn that Wilhelm has his eye on Simon (Omar Rudberg), a scholarship student who attends the school during the day and returns home to his single mother and sister during the night. On Young Royals, a new Swedish coming-of-gay-age drama on Netflix, Sweden’s prince Wilhelm (played by 18-year-old Edvin Ryding) is sent to a boarding school for the rich after getting in a fight out in the world and having it documented on social media. But when these shows place no-strings-attached sexual exploration at the forefront of their stories, I feel disconnected (and frankly, creepy) investing in the show. In the meantime, teen shows are dominating with their queer characters. There has yet to be a gay Fleabag, which is truly what I want. It’s not that I’m not grateful to watch such a range of experience, but I still feel there is a gap in shows about the contemporary, gay male-identified experience. Coincidentally this had been on my mind for the last year, when dates turned into health risks and I started to wonder if I would ever feel gay yearning again.īetween Pose and P-Valley, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay and Special, Search Party and It’s A Sin, Schitt’s Creek and This Close, I feel guilty for wanting more out of queer representation on television in the 2020s. In our session, she explained how my Taurus in Venus - along with placements in my houses that were beyond my comprehension - favour a slower approach to intimacy. The rebooted version of the show may or may not include all of the faces we know and love but either way, we are super excited to see what is coming.I recently had my first astrology reading by a friend. Penn Badgley is starring on Netflix's You which might help tide us over as we wait for this reboot.
These awesome actors have moved on to other awesome projects since the final episode of Gossip Girl wrapped but we still adore them just as much.
The show starred actors and actresses like Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford, and Taylor Momsen. It was way ahead of its time when it came to the idea of social media, have fans, friends, and followers, and more. The original Gossip Girl ran for six amazing seasons between 20 and no one has forgotten how incredible it was. GOSSIP GIRL, Blake Lively, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen, (Season 1, 2007), 2007.