Elite Season 6 Review: A Guilty Pleasure That Delivers What It Promises BUT We Love It Anyway
Stars: Carmen ArrufatAna Cristina BokesaÁlvaro de Juana
Creator: Carlos Montero Castiñeira, Darío Madrona
Streaming Platform: Netflix
FilmyHype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and a half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
Elite Season 6 opens today on the Netflix platform with a renewed cast, but old plots are repeated in a loop that is already boring. There will be those who will be surprised that the sixth season of Elite will premiere on Netflix… With the number of great and promising series that the platform has not renewed! Well yes, we return to Las Encinas with a batch of eight episodes lasting 50 minutes on average and we were able to see the first three to offer you some first impressions.
But let’s start at the beginning. The sixth season begins with the start of a new academic year, where the study centre must clean up its image by covering up past disasters. However, the conflict in their classrooms does not stop and is marked by cases of racism, sexism, sexist violence, sexual abuse and LGTBQ phobia, among others. Given the lack of solutions, the students of Las Encinas themselves decide to take action on the matter.
Elite Season 6 Review: The Story Plot
Thus it happens that the veterans of Élite are now those who entered the scene in season 4. The three Ari (Carla Diaz), Mencia (Martina Cariddi) and Patrick (Manu Ríos), now live alone, after their father, Benjamin, the tyrannical CEO of Las Encinas, has been arrested. The three look rather bewildered. Ari is attracted at the same time by Nico (Ander Puig), a boy who has made the transition from woman to man, and by Bilal, a waiter who works in Isadora’s (Valentina Zenere) new place. She is increasingly split in two: on the one hand, she continues to carry on her image as a DJ and influencer, on the other, she is tormented by anxiety, for which she takes drugs and medicines, and above all by the terrible rape that she he suffered in the previous season. Patrick seems attached to Iván (André Lamoglia), son of the soccer player Cruz, who in turn still somehow longs for Patrick.
Mencia bonds with two boys and a couple of influencers, Sara (Carmen Arrufat) and Raul (Alex Pastrana). She would seem to start a ménage a Trois with them. But their story will take unexpected directions. Rocìo (Ana Bokesa), a girl of African origins, also enters the scene. Ari, Mencía and Patrick (who take over from the old guard) return to school with the idea of not getting carried away by their father’s problems, desperate to prove his lack of bad intentions. At the school, a new director appears to try to calm the waters and develop a new educational style, although the students are suspicious of the changes. In any case, it is not that their academic future is what matters most to them: it serves as a framework for the relationships that exist between them and little else.
Meanwhile, Isa opens a new nightclub in style, but soon shows signs of going through a process of depression to the extent that no one believes her when she denounces the gang rape to which she was subjected under the influence of drugs. and alcohol and she feels very lonely. On the other hand, an influencer and her partner, an aggressive and very controlling guy, and a young transgender man join the students of Las Encinas causing a tsunami in group dynamics. Patrick also continues to be the third vertex in the love triangle of the soccer player Cruz Carvalho and his son Iván, who appears run over one night.
Elite Season 6 Review And Analysis
As you can see, Elite becomes much more emotional and demanding, stopping its erotic-festive plots almost dead and minimizing its more hedonistic side. And that the first advance was sold as the censored teaser of the series. The result: a strange cocktail that remains in no man’s land. Yes, the series has always mixed drama with mamarrachismo, but it was an unreal drama. The murders in Las Encinas were something anecdotal and artificial within the plot, which did not shock the viewer (or almost all the protagonists). As in this season, we don’t care about the outcome of the mystery or discovering who the murderer, or the victim is. And that, on this occasion, the character involved is adorable. But the conflicts they address now are so complex and real that they cause rejection within a series as fanciful and firecracker as Elite. Unfortunately, they are stories that we see every day on the news or in our environment. They are stories that fiction must portray to make them visible and/or denounce them, just like HIT or Euphoria do, but here they sound forced and out of tune with the series.
Elite 6 does not mince words: it takes exactly five minutes until we see the first sequence of “showers” with fabulous nudes, so the writers don’t bother to hide what they want to offer: meat, morbidity and noise. They are worse off when they try to put together a more serious discourse: it is almost audacity that in a product so aware of its frivolity even a complaint about the treatment received by rape victims is insinuated, it tries to show gender violence, homophobia in football or the crisis that a person who is transitioning from one gender to another can suffer.
Because let does not kid us, this is a badly disguised soap opera with adolescents played by adults in which the only thing that matters is how to launch a more scandalous sequence than the previous one. The how doesn’t matter… it’s a meat grinder. The plot chaos of this season is such that the writers seem to have forgotten what they already did in the previous seasons: they repeat plots, make the characters lurch unjustifiably and do not assume that in such a banal packaging it is even ridiculous to raise certain issues such as the overcoming anxiety or addiction to alcohol and drugs. It’s not that the performances are too brilliant either but taking into account the lines of dialogue that poor actors sometimes have to defend, they do too much.
Bottom line: Elite is the corpse. A series that had its moment was well received globally and knew how to feed the machinery with somewhat bizarre but original characters and now he has no idea where he wants to go. And the worst thing is that the threat of a seventh season is already looming on the horizon: if nothing remedies it, by mid-2023 we will have Elite Season 7. If the series then continues to interest someone, it is a mystery to be solved, because, given the start, the expectations are rather nil. Elite evolves from guilty pleasure to a firecracker, an unbearable and repetitive series with little plot and alleged depth. A torment by all accounts.
Elite Season 6 Review: The Last Words
Since its premiere, we have claimed Elite as a guilty pleasure that delivers what it promises, without cheating or cardboard, and from which we do not demand credibility or coherence. But it is increasingly difficult to defend the indefensible. The reinvention of the sixth season does not work and does not entertain, the social drama eats up the comedy to offer a watered-down and not very addictive result.
