Young Millionaires Review: When four 17-year-olds win 17 million in a lottery, they quickly realise that being minors and millionaires don’t go well together. Desperate to claim their prize, they cook up one awful plan after another as the complications mount.
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Young Millionaires Netflix Cast
Abraham Wapler, Sara Gançarski, Malou Khebizi, Calixte Broisin-Doutaz, Jeanne Boudier, Florian Lesieur, Victor Bonnel, Margot Heckmann, Alexis Rosenstiehl, Elma Urriaga
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Young Millionaires Series Creators
Igor Gotesman, Olivia Barlier, Tania Gotesman
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Young Millionaires 2025 Directors
Mohamed Chabane, Igor Gotesman, Tania Gotesman, Théo Jourdain
The series has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of 30 minutes.
Young Millionaires Review
Much like some other teenage shows on the platform, Young Millionaires is Netflix’s newest venture, showcasing teens living a life that is unrelatable after they get their hands on a fortune. The series is short and complicated enough for most people to find it somewhat engaging, but it doesn’t bring anything truly magical to the screen and only relies on silly mind games and pettiness to keep things moving.
There are moments of friendship and love that blossom in the show. It’s a bit juvenile, but still heartening to see. The core group is sweet and loving towards one another, and although they are a menace who can get on your nerves, I guess it does a good job of humanising them instead of turning them into complete idiots.
There are a few moments in the series that will feel baffling to a lot of viewers. A lot of it doesn’t make sense, but, as I mentioned, it manages to keep things moving and doesn’t let us think about the silliness for too long, eventually resulting in a show that is engaging for as long as it’s turned on. After the credits roll in the last episode, however, you immediately forget about it because there’s simply nothing special about it and the characters aren’t too likeable either.
I still find myself baffled as to why Netflix keeps on making shows about bratty teens who constantly make mistakes but end up getting a happy ending because of plot armour, because the formula doesn’t work anymore. It’s been done to death, and the notion that no one will know all the stuff that these brats get into just because they are the protagonists seems lazy to me. That’s something similar in Young Millionaires, and you will question the validity of the things happening constantly.
The performances are fine, and I think the four actors have good chemistry among one another, but, again, the characters get on your nerves after a while, and so the performances eventually stop mattering.
Final Thoughts
Young Millionaires is fine if you’re in the mood for something light, forgettable and a bit stupid. It has its moments, and you do question who the blackmailer can be, but there are far too many questions that the series doesn’t answer, leaving us to wonder the point of it all in the end.