Elite
Elite, the Spanish-language teen crime drama that recently hit Netflix, has been compared to some of the top twisty teen soaps of the past decade. The comparisons are apt; for a show that had little pre-release marketing, the online buzz that blew up over its gossipy high school drama led to its second season pickup barely two weeks after the lean eight-episode first season landed on the streaming service. Elite might be the only show that could give Riverdale a run for its money when it comes to excessive slow-motion shots. Like Gossip Girl, it’s set in an exclusive private school where social currency is determined by wealth, sex, power, and following the script. A student-teacher blackmail subplot screams Pretty Little Liars. It has shades of How To Get Away With Murder, too, jumping between two timelines to unfurl its central murder mystery. (It even shares a murder weapon in common with the Shondaland thriller’s first season.) On the surface, those parallels are obvious. But whereas these mile-a-minute dramas twist and turn so much, often spinning multiple mysteries at once, Elite actually manages to exercise impressive restraint when it comes to its central murder mystery. It’s more slow crime than murder thriller.
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