Ron Does Stuff

I’m only two episodes in but I already get the fans of this show. It’s really good! Let’s watch another episode!

When we left Wilhelm and Simon in the previous episode, they were making out by a window. We don’t get back to that at the start of this episode, though, but to Wilhelm at the lockers. He’s looking longingly at Simon at the other room though, so maybe those kisses by the window weren’t just straight boy experimentation.

He approaches Simon at the piano and it turns out that Simon doesn’t know how to read music and only plays by ear, which I think we call ouido over here. Of course, Wilhelm takes this as an opportunity to sit beside Simon and teach him. I see what you are, Swedish Prince.

Or maybe I don’t see what he is because when Simon attempts to bring up what happened to them by the window, Wilhelm tells him that it would be better for them to forget about it. You want to forget that? He still wants to be friends though. Wilhelm, baby, fuck off.

At least Felice is getting better with her horse. She’s also getting to know Sara better as well as the home situation she and Simon are in and maybe feeling a little empathy for the both of them, especially since she has her own issues with her parents.

After that awkward piano encounter, Wilhelm and Simon run into each other again in the shower and I don’t think it’s going to be easier for you to talk to Simon when he’s shirtless and you’re shirtless, Wilhelm. It’s just not happening. You just keep staring at him intensely because that’s all you’ll be able to do.

It definitely is all that Wilhelm can do because we get a montage of him just staring intensely at Simon in many different occasions. Also, the lighting when Wilhelm is writhing around in bed in his boxers? Exquisite.

Wilhelm tries to make his move after all that staring by saying that it’s the Parent’s Day weekend and the school is going to be mostly empty and maybe…wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Wilhelm, honey, don’t be like Ben from Heartstopper. And to his credit maybe he isn’t! He takes back forgetting about what happened between them by the window and I can’t fault Simon for folding. I would too!

Before we get to that, though, we have to deal with August. He still hasn’t paid Simon for the booze and now the pills and Simon needs 5,500 krona because of the private tutoring sessions he had in the previous episode. And August has no intention of paying him! He’s confident enough to tell it to Simon’s face! Oh August, you asshole.

Parent’s Day arrives and Simon and Wilhelm are making googly eyes at each other while singing the school hymn and it has to stop. Stop the insanity!

The first of the Hillerska kids we get to see with their parents is Felice, and her mother is…let’s say she wants Felice to move up the social ladder. Even higher than they already are. You’re barking up the wrong tree, honey. Wilhelm is not the one.

Back at the assembly, August is being a classist dick and trying to boot Simon and Sara from the lunch arranged for the parents. If I were Simon I would expose him for not paying for the booze and pills but that would implicate him and what evidence does he have, anyway?

While that’s happening, Wilhelm is sulking in his room, talking to his brother about his crush on Simon without actually naming Simon and without actually admitting he has a crush on Simon. He’s missing the Parent’s Day lunch and August is getting anxious. And August gets the shock of his life when Wilhelm does walk in to the lunch and sits at Simon’s table. The table that August didn’t even want to be there.

That doesn’t mean that Simon’s table is drama-free. Because of her Asperger’s, Sara unintentionally exposes Felice’s lies to her parents. It’s an awkward scene and I feel bad for Felice but it’s not like Sara did it maliciously! Sara even realizes that she’s done something wrong, albeit belatedly. And then Felice even misunderstands Wilhelm and gets rejected after she kisses him. Felice, baby, lemme give you a hug.

August is having a bad Parent’s Day as well, because his mother is telling him to sell some of their stuff because they are one of the poors now. August is too proud to do it and has a big old tantrum and tells his mom that he’s staying for the weekend. You just know he’s going to spoil Wilhelm and Simon’s time together.

But first, Simon is going to kick his ass. As small as Simon is — relatively, I bet Simon/Omar is still taller than me — he takes August by surprise and has his face on the ground, demanding that he pay back the money he owes him. August is forced to admit that he’s pewr now, but Simon doesn’t care and wants his money back. I get it and I approve! August said it himself: Don’t spend money you don’t have. Rosh and Ayub are a little judgey though, saying Simon is no better than August, which I think is a little unfair. You know Simon’s economic situation. Did you just want him to forget about that substantial amount of money he’s owed?

Felice, with her self-esteem in tatters, offers herself up to August and this isn’t the way, baby. You deserve better dick!

With August staying for the weekend, Wilhelm decides to spend it out of campus with Simon instead. However, before he can even get away, he’s stopped by the school administration because something devastating has happened: His older brother, Erik, is dead. Wilhelm’s the Crown Prince now. Fuck.