Elite Season 7 Review: The Netflix series stars Omar Ayuso as Omar, Valentina Zenere as Isadora Artiñán, André Lamoglia as Iván Carvalho, Carmen Arrufat as Sara, Álex Pastrana as Raúl, Álvaro de Juana as Dídac, Ander Puig as Nico, Ana Bokesa as Rocío, Nadia Al Saidi as Sonia, Fernando Líndez as Joel, Mirela Balić as Chloe, Gleb Abrosimov as Eric. The Spanish teenage erotica thriller series was created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. The new season has 8 episodes of 50-55 minutes, approximately.
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Elite Season 7 Review Contains Mild Spoilers
Elite Season 7 Review: Plot Summary
In Elite Season 7, Omar is taking therapy as he can’t escape his past and the trauma of losing his friend Samuel. He has a new love interest, Joel. However, there’s a love triangle between Omar, Joel, and Ivan. Isadora and Didac are publicly broken up, but they keep hooking up privately. Didac’s brother has secretly placed a recorder on his phone to record every conversation with Isa. If you aren’t aware, their families are rivals.
Sara and Raul’s relationship is still toxic. There’s a new girl named Chloe who enjoys leaking her s*x videos so that people can notice her. Nico’s cousin Eric is also part of the Elite story. With so many new characters, will it ever be revealed that Sara was behind Ivan’s car accident? Is it revealed who shot those gunshots? What will be the fate of Isadora and Didac’s relationship? Well, it’s a mess.
Elite Season 7 Review: Discussion
One thing is clear: Netflix’s Elite Season 7 makers know that the show has a loyal fanbase, and there isn’t much need for a solid story. Every season, we are introduced to a few good-looking people, which leads to love triangles, quadrangles, and lots of drama. The new season does the same, but worse. Several individual or couple subplots no longer align, and the friendship factor is completely eliminated. The addition of so many characters with weak storylines makes the show a disjointed final product.
Omar’s return and trauma premise do little to make the story better. It seems like the makers wanted someone to serve the nostalgia of the old cast, and they thought of Omar. We never get a chance to empathise with his disturbed mindset. It has been so many seasons; Omar’s growth has been little, and his relationship drama is getting repetitive. In the earlier seasons, we saw desire, love, and lust in relationships. Now, couples are formed only because the makers want to shift the show’s theme from crime to erotic teenage drama.
Isadora and Didac’s relationship and all the secrets were quite frustrating to watch. Instead of focusing on their relationship to the core, they emphasised their family differences and politics. Sara and Raul have to be the worst couple, considering how they glorified the abuse. Spoiler: Sara plays an ugly game to escape Raul’s clutches and frees herself from the relationship. Yet she’s shown to be jealous when he starts dating someone else. Why ruin her own and the other girl’s lives?
There’s a scene where a mother and son (the son doesn’t know it’s his mother yet) start making out because they’re high on drugs. Why would the makers think it will make the sunken premise any better?
Ivan, recovering from the accident injuries and the heartbreak of Patrick leaving him, becomes a one-dimensional character. As Eric takes the front seat in the narrative, Nico, Rocio, and Sonia are used as fillers. Another new character, Chloe, a s*x addict, enjoys leaking her own s*x videos. The plot for her character gets intense later. But we have never explained why she has such an odd trait of seeking attention. There is never any past trauma addressed that will justify her questionable actions. Is this element added only to appeal to erotica fans?
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Elite Season 7 fails to answer the gunshot suspense. The focus is so much on couples’ controversies that Sara-Ivan-Raul’s truth seems like it’s no big deal. What started as a riveting teenage erotic thriller has turned into a scattered mess. The nudity is cut down by 80%, but the show still has no story.
Elite Season 7 Review: Final Thoughts
Overall, Elite Season 7 has lost the plot, and the new characters have overcrowded the show. The love stories miss the passion and intensity, and the thriller severely lacks an adrenaline rush. It’s not a surprise that the new season doesn’t offer anything substantial. But it’s sad to see shows like this constantly renewed, whereas the platform has cancelled some of the best titles in the last two years.
The series is now streaming on Netflix.
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