Elite - Big Question In SpanishTeen Drama

After finishing watching this show, it’s hard to talk about it and its pros and cons without giving away any spoilers.

So, let’s start with the plot: three students from a poor neighborhood receive a scholarship to the best private high school in the country, where the sons and daughters of the Spanish elite study.

The clash between these two different realities is inevitable, and, as you might imagine, many problems and questions arise with it. The resident students didn’t like the newcomers, and, in turn, the newcomers mistrusted their colleagues. Tension raises and everything seems to collapse.

Just Teens

While watching the show, I couldn’t avoid noticing how sarcastic it might seem, as you realize that, besides the cultural shock, they weren’t that different after all. I believe that’s the real point in this story.

The interactions between the characters are like those in any other teen show, but despite the different context, they reminded me a lot of 13 Reasons Why.

Big Questions

The show focuses on some big questions and stereotypes, demystifying some of them, which is very good, almost educational. It addresses issues such as HIV, teenage pregnancy, sexual experimentation, and homosexuality, without the heaviness of some shows (showing how hard it can be to face these issues), but rather with normality.

Naturally, in the show, just as in real life, the characters will face some ignorant people, but I liked this perspective of normality. We are all tired of some cliches that have been way overused up to this point…

It Breaks Some Barriers

I also liked the way they portrayed the Muslim family - very traditional and with rigid rules, yet still open to dialogue.

Instead of portraying them as intransigent, the show tries to give us a different portrait, more human.

Just like any other parent, they try their best and will eventually reach the point when they need to talk and try to understand what the kids do and how they feel, even when they don’t agree…

It All Starts....

The whole story is about a murder we know of from the beginning, but that’s just a very small part of everything we can take from it…

With some familiar faces from Money Heist, Elite is another high-quality Spanish show you’ll most likely enjoy!

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