After the departure of Miguel Bernardeau and Arón Piper, the students of Las Encinas try to maintain interest in a series that is experiencing its worst moment
Just under a year ago, we shared here that we liked the first four episodes of the fourth season of “Elite.” There was no irony. After a very weak third season, the new characters had managed to breathe life into a fiction doomed to repeat itself between low-intensity mysteries, rather sculptural bodies and parties doused in alcohol and drugs. It was a hasty verdict, because when all the chapters were finally uploaded to the platform, all traces of self-parody were gone and “Elite” was more like it always was, just more exhausting. Well, the fifth season has already arrived at the service and it’s more or less the same: downhill and no brakes.
It has not been good for him to lose two of his most popular characters Guzmán (Miguel Bernardeau) and Ander (Arón Piper), who decided to flee after, beware of the spoiler coming, Armando’s death in the previous season, during the fateful New Year’s Eve party held by Phillippe. The new series of episodes kicks off with the imposition of new rules at the Las Encinas Institute—no cell phones, no social networks, and, mind you, strict dress codes—by the center’s director, Benjamín, who is played by an ever-wise Diego Martín, while some of the previous season’s conspiracies, such as the disappearance of Armando or the rape of Cayetana at the hands of Phillippe – the way the writers have handled the subject is shameful – remain floating in the air.
Again, a police interrogation and the presence of what appears to be a corpse floating in a swimming pool is the starting point of a mystery that will gradually be revealed. His interest is inversely related to the twists and turns fiction takes to solve it. The first bars of the series also serve to introduce two of the new characters: on the one hand, Isadora (Valentina Zenere), nicknamed the Queen of Ibiza, a very superficial girl addicted to drugs and staying in the Four Seasons of Madrid . On the other hand, Iván (André Lamoglia), son of a famous Brazilian footballer, always partying and surrounded by women, who will soon become one of Patrick’s great friends.
But mostly we’re here to find out what’s happening to the boys’ lives. Omar is still addicted to Ander, although he hardly responds to messages during his world tour and takes it out on Patrick. Samu and Ari continue their relationship, but the lower-class boy is focused on achieving academic success and will not hesitate to place himself under Benjamín’s command. Meanwhile, Mencía and Rebe, who started dating last season, will play cat and mouse for much of this series of episodes. For his part, Phillippe is harassed by some students in the center and neglected by his friends. The Frenchman finds an ally in Isadora as he tries to “fix” what happened to Cayetana.
And the partying and debauchery continue, with love triangles—this time including dad—daring scenes, and big doses of boy and girl objectification. He has ‘Elite’ skill when it comes to creating these kinds of sequences, even if they abuse the same scenarios over and over; Then again, in other circumstances – that drive-in theater full of luxury cars – you don’t know if they’re playing a parody or if it’s really that ridiculous.
It seems that the writers have less and less to say. The mystery that shrouds each season has always been an excuse to showcase the luxurious life and excesses of these upper-class teens, but it seems that those who developed the series have increasingly signaled its importance, making it has remained practically empty. Perhaps ‘Elite’ is now a more perfect fiction for that purpose, but also much duller and duller.
‘Elite’ is available on Netflix.
Source: La Verdad
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