The Royals aims for glitzy satire but delivers a muddled mess of bad writing and confused tone. Its promising premise collapses under cringe characters and genre chaos.
Sophia Kanmani Shekhar (Bhumi Pednekar), a startup entrepreneur with the charm of a corporate newsletter. Her palace-renting pitch sounds like it was plagiarized from a TEDx talk on "disrupting heritage."
Some critics described her as "a LinkedIn influencer stuck in a Netflix original." Between mandatory motivational speeches and infinite buzzwords, Sophia is the new poster child for second hand embarrassment.
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Ishaan Khatter's Aviraaj Singh is merely an abs-sport royal with no clear direction. He spends much of the series confused or shirtless-earning the unofficial moniker of "John Abraham of 2025."
His romance with Sophia is as flat as they come, "watching two spoons in a drawer" would seem more charged. As charming as he is, the character's emotional journey is missing in action.
Sumukhi Suresh, a really hilarious actress, is hired as a hapless secretary whose gags fall flat more often than not and whose skills get pushed into the background.
In its attempt to be a rom-com, a satire, and a drama simultaneously, The Royals forgets to be good at any