Elite (2018)

Elite Season 4

This review of Netflix's Elite season 4 does not contain spoilers.  Read the recap of the first episode. With a new year at...
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Elite season 4 review – is this Netflix's best soapy drama?

This recap of Netflix’s Elite season 4, episode 8, “Before I Go (Part 2),” -- the ending explained -- contains major spoilers. Read...
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Elite season 4, episode 8 recap - the ending explained

This recap of Netflix series Elite season 4, episode 7, “Before I Go (Part 1),” contains significant spoilers. Read the recap of the...
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Elite season 4, episode 7 recap – what happened in "Before I Go (Part 1)”?

This recap of Netflix’s Elite season 4, episode 6, “I Love You All Wrong,” contains major spoilers. Read the recap of the previous...
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Elite season 4, episode 6 recap – what happened in "I Love You All Wrong”?

This recap of Netflix series Elite season 4, episode 5, “Reintegration,” contains significant spoilers. Read the recap of the previous episode. OpeningEpisode 5...
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Elite season 4, episode 5 recap – what happened in “Reintegration”?

This recap of the Netflix series Elite, season 4, episode 4, "I'm a...," contains major spoilers.  Read the recap of the previous episode....
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Elite season 4, episode 4 recap – what happened in "I'm a..."?

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 4, episode 3, 'When Lies Dance Along with Temptations", contains major spoilers. Opening Ari begins to flatline...
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Elite season 4, episode 3 recap - what happened in "When Lies Dance Along with Temptations"?

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 4, episode 2, "5 Seconds", contains major spoilers. Read the recap of the previous episode. Opening The...
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Elite season 4, episode 2 recap – what happened in “5 Seconds”?

This recap of Netflix series Elite season 4, episode 1, "The New Order," contains significant spoilers. Season 3 of Elite was spectacular, and...
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Elite season 4, episode 1 recap – what happened in "The New Order"?

Elite Season 5

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 8, "Your Side of the World and Mine", -- the ending explained -- contains spoilers....
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Elite season 5, episode 8 recap - the ending explained

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 7, "Toxic," contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news for Elite. Elite...
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Elite season 5, episode 7 recap - "Toxic"

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 6, "Can't Buy Me Love," contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news...
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Elite season 5, episode 6 recap - "Can't Buy Me Love"

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 5, "Please, tell the truth," contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news...
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Elite season 5, episode 5 recap - the most raunchy sex scene in this series so far?

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 4, "The Body", contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news for Elite....
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Elite season 5, episode 4 recap - "The Body"

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 3, "Tie Me Up," contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news for...
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Elite season 5, episode 3 recap - "Tie Me Up"

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 2, "Anything Goes", contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news for Elite. ...
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Elite season 5, episode 2 recap - "Anything Goes"

This recap of Netflix's Elite season 5, episode 1, "I Killed Him," contains spoilers. Access the archives of reviews, recaps, and news for...
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Elite season 5, episode 1 recap - a hit and miss return to Las Encinas

This review of the first three episodes of the Netflix series Elite season 5 does not contain any spoilers. And so it returns....
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Elite season 5 review - does the series return to its best?

Elite Season 6

One of the most popular and important characters and in the fourth and fifth seasons of Elite is Prince Phillipe Florian von Triesenberg,...
Where is Phillipe in Elite season 6?

Where is Phillipe in Elite season 6?

Ivántrick or Patriván is one of the key fan-favorite relationships that emerged in the fifth season of Elite, and their steamy encounters together are some...
Does Ivan continue having sex with Patrick in Elite season 6?

Does Ivan continue having sex with Patrick in Elite season 6?

Ivan has been a major character for the last couple of seasons of Elite. The handsome son of a football icon, his involvement...
Does Ivan die in Elite season 6?

Does Ivan die in Elite season 6?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 8, “Separation”, contains spoilers for the ending of Elite Season 6. Another year, another eight episodes,...
Elite season 6 ending explained - who hit Ivan and does he survive?

Elite season 6 ending explained - who hit Ivan and does he survive?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 7, "Masks", contains spoilers. These days it seems like you can’t have a teen drama without...
Elite season 6, episode 7 recap - why does Mencia get spiked?

Elite season 6, episode 7 recap - why does Mencia get spiked?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 6, "Tina", contains spoilers. “Tina” is one of those slow-paced middle episodes that don’t particularly move...
Elite season 6, episode 6 recap - what does Isadora inject Hugo with?

Elite season 6, episode 6 recap - what does Isadora inject Hugo with?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 5, "Mourning", contains spoilers. Things aren’t going especially well for Ivan. His dad is dead, for...
Elite season 6, episode 5 recap - why does Javi confess?

Elite season 6, episode 5 recap - why does Javi confess?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 4, "War", contains spoilers. Do you know how I said that the damage done to the...
Elite season 6, episode 4 recap - who dies in "War"?

Elite season 6, episode 4 recap - who dies in "War"?

This review of Elite season 6 is spoiler-free.  Ever since it began in 2018, Netflix’s soapy Spanish teen-drama Elite has been best described...
Elite season 6 review - a soapy sixth outing provides diminishing returns

Elite season 6 review - a soapy sixth outing provides diminishing returns

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 3, "Naked", contains spoilers. So, you remember how in Elite season 6, episode 2, Didac recorded...
Elite season 6, episode 3 recap - what does "violador" mean?

Elite season 6, episode 3 recap - what does "violador" mean?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 2, "Selfies", contains spoilers. “Selfies” opens with two things – a reminder that Nico’s transition is...
Elite season 6, episode 2 recap - why does Cruz decide to come out?

Elite season 6, episode 2 recap - why does Cruz decide to come out?

This recap of Elite season 6, episode 1, "Anxiety", contains spoilers. You know how it is – basically, every season of Elite has to...
Elite season 6, episode 1 recap - who ran Ivan over?

Elite season 6, episode 1 recap - who ran Ivan over?

Elite Season 7

You can describe Netflix’s long-running original hit Elite as many things. The salacious Spanish teen drama has been, variably, a class commentary, an...
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The Only Death in 'Elite' Season 7 Explained

Well, folks, we’ve finally made it, and Elite Season 7 has been a particularly aggravating journey. Knowing that the ending of Season 7...
Elite Season 7 Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained

Elite Season 7 Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained

“Just Hug Me”, the penultimate episode of Elite Season 7, really just proves what I’ve been saying all along – this show is...
Elite Season 7 Episode 7 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 7 Recap

Before we get into “Rock Bottom”, Episode 6 of Elite Season 7, permit me a small point. It occurs to me that it’s...
Elite Season 7 Episode 6 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 6 Recap

Episode 4 was, on balance, probably the best episode of Elite Season 7. Episode 5, on the other hand, is not. At all....
Elite Season 7 Episode 5 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 5 Recap

There’s always a party episode in Elite and other teen dramas, and it’s always followed by the hangover episode, or the “morning after...
Elite Season 7 Episode 4 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 4 Recap

Are things picking up a little in Elite Season 7? That might be a touch ambitious, but at the very least Episode 3,...
Elite Season 7 Episode 3 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 3 Recap

Elite Season 7 continues its run of bad form in Episode 2, “Protocol”, which still lacks anything worthy of an audience’s attention. There’s...
Elite Season 7 Episode 2 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 2 Recap

You’ll notice immediately that “Las Encinas”, Episode 1 of Elite Season 7, doesn’t play out like one of the show’s premieres usually does....
Elite Season 7 Episode 1 Recap

Elite Season 7 Episode 1 Recap

No series typifies Netflix better than Elite, a lusty Spanish high-school melodrama that has just debuted its seventh season despite not having been...
Elite Season 7 Review – Netflix series has finally lost the plot

Elite Season 7 Review – Netflix series has finally lost the plot