Review of Elite

Title: Elite

Director: Carlos Montero and David Madrona 

Starring: Miguel Bernardeau, Itzan Escamilla, Mina Hammani, Aron Piper.

Studio: Netflix Original 

Release Date: September 6, 2019

Available: Netflix

Elite is a Spanish TV show available on Netflix. Its second season came out September sixth and as soon as it begins, we see that, just like the first season, this one will be formed by two main plots and one of them will be shown to us by a time jump to the future. One of the main plots introduces us to the main characters just as we have left them the previous season, all dealing with Marina’s death. However, the plot that really catches the audience’s attention is the one that is shown in the time jump: one of the main characters has disappeared and nobody knows where he is. 

This show is produced by Carlos Montero and David Madrona and has an amazing cast with great chemistry between them, this is because a few of the members of Elite’s cast( Miguel Herran, Jaime Lorente, Maria Pedraza) have worked together on another successful show La Casa de Papel. 

If you want to understand what is going on you need to watch the first season and if you had already watched it, I recommend you to rewatch it, as I did so that you start the new season with all the details on the mind.

Even though everybody, including me, had their doubts about making a second season of this show, the producers and the cast have proved everybody wrong. This season grabs your attention more than the first one did. However, what I believe made this such a great season is the way the writers and the actors had developed their characters, showing us their backstories and making us understand them and their actions. In addition to the great development of the main characters, we are introduced to three main once that really reflect the people of society nowadays as they are going through the saem problems that real teenagers. These new characters also give the show a feeling of reality that it didn’t have in its first season. 

Despite loving this season I have to admit that setting it in high school makes the audience a bit confused. If you see teenager shows set in high school, you will realize that they tend to exaggerate the life of sixteen and seventeen-year-old kids, and that is okay because normally the plot is not even realistic and you know that what you are watching is not true. However, I believe  that if this show had been set on college, it would have made it perfect. 

Would it be worth it to spend 8 hours of your life watching this new season? Absolutely. This new season tries to talk about problems like drugs, discovering your sexuality, facing death, and discovering yourself. As I said previously, the cast is amazing both as individuals and as a group and you can see that in this second season.