One of the biggest Spanish hits of Netflix is ‘Elite’. You may like the series more or less, but what no one in their right mind can question is its popularity. Of course, the progressive march of the original protagonists has been making itself felt, to the point that even some of those who were their biggest followers have ended up getting tired of it.
For my part, it was in the fourth installment when I began to notice symptoms of fatigue in the series, which became even more so in the fifth, where at least there was a small green shoot from going from less to more. However, I didn’t have it all with me with season 6 and, after watching three episodes, I have to say that the decline of the series continuesIt is of little use that they wanted to give it a more dramatic tone.
Adrift
Season 6 is also the first in which not one of the protagonists of the first remains. It is true that for the seventh the return of Omar Ayusobut here there is no trace of him or any of his former companions in Las Encinas.
Of course, it is not the beginning of nothing, because there are many already known characters with whom those responsible for ‘Elite’ have tried to do a transition soft so that the shock was not very pronounced. This leads to a curious situation, since some plots from the fifth season are picked up while new ones are introduced.
There, what works worst is that they want us to believe that some characters were already around in the fifth season to thus seek a greater naturalness in their sudden role. This bet does not end up working too well, both because it is somewhat forced and because many of the new characters give the feeling of being a goop to fill a narrative need instead of providing greater dramatic force to the plots.
Of course, there are different levels within that, because the plot of Ander Puig with Carla Diaz It does arouse some interest, whereas Carmen Arrufatalthough without shining like previous works of his, he manages to raise his own despite the fact that certain situations, especially some intimate scene that he shares with Alex PastranaThey don’t stop flowing.
It takes more than dealing with “important” issues
What is perceived is that ‘Elite’ bet at all levels for a more vindictive tone, taking that inclusive touch that the series has been promoting more and more a step further. The problem is that, in turn, its more festive component is diluted and the idea of seeing here a kind of guilty pleasure is about to disintegrate. The series had always had something of a fantasy that has completely evaporated.
With that I do not deny that this hedonistic touch is still present at certain moments such as the private party of the third episode, but it has been diluted in favor of that more vindictive touch. The problem is that it is one thing to enter into important issues that could give rise to interesting debates, and another to do it in a way that makes it very difficult to connect with what it proposes. Sometimes too obvious and always very direct -I didn’t expect anything else from ‘Elite’-, the point is that this attempt at reinvention does not work.
With everything, I do not rule out that those drops of tension scattered throughout these three episodes could lead to something more stimulating. Perhaps not in all the plots, but it will be bad if some do not take off when it is time to push the situation to the limit. There it will matter less how plausible it may be, like its ability to engage the viewer, which at this start of the season it has not achieved.
In short
‘Elite’ has tried to straighten the course with this sixth season but the Netflix series continues without raising its head. It is true that I am still not bored with her, but at the time of her she conquered me and little by little I am becoming more and more disenchanted. a pity
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