Mencia’s created to bring forth the major mystery in Elite season 4 which opens with a beaten up Ari being saved by the police after basically drowning in the lake during a New Year’s Eve party. I guess more power to Ari for being honest about her feelings at least. In a sense, if Guzman and Samu were even a bit queer, a trio could have worked. I laughed when she said she loved them both. Things get even more complicated when Ari begins to sleep with both Guzman and Samu (without them knowing) and becomes unable to decide whom to actually be with. And yes, big surprise, Guzman and Nadia breakup because the writers wanted to allow Guzman to pursue Ari without cheating on Nadia. Immediately, both Guzman and Samu (who became close friends over the course of the past three seasons) forget about their friendship and compete with each other to see who will win Ari’s affection. The existence of all three characters (more so with Ari and Patrick) revolves around causing trouble for our familiar cast.Īri ends up catching the interest of Guzman and Samu. However, it’s quite apparent that they are nothing more than plot devices. I would have been okay with Ari, Patrick, and Mencia if they were written as actual characters. A young prince also starts attending the school, but I’ll get to him in a bit. Immediately, the new students are given the cold shoulder from our familiar cast (Guzman, Omar, Ander, Samu, Rebe, and Cayetana) because they don’t like how Benjamin’s running things. He’s also not a fan of scholarship students like Omar and Samu being there without putting in the required academic effort. Benjamin’s also into making sure the school follows a strict set of rules. Benjamin becoming the principal means Ander’s mom gets fired. The fourth season introduces us to a new principal named Benjamin and his three kids Ari, Patrick, and Mencia. Such a decision would have kept fan-favorite characters around and also offered more stories to be explored (avenues you can’t really get into when your cast of characters isn’t even in their 20s yet).īut alas, Elite season 4 decided to opt for the “revolving door”, where past characters are written off in favor of new ones. The writers should have allowed the characters to age out of high school and then brought them back to Las Encinas as young adults. I do feel Elite should have gone a similar route. The same went for Glee, with the creatives allowing the characters to grow older. But at least, aging them up offered some new potential to explore. I mean, Archie and his crew eventually found themselves back at the school as adults. And writing those fan-favorite characters off will motivate certain viewers to stop watching.Įven The CW’s Riverdale saw sense and decided to do a time skip to keep the same OG cast and follow them be outside a high school setting. From what I can tell, fans aren’t that interested in the high school setting. I think one of the biggest missteps the creative team made was not realizing what the fandom wanted. And while it’s fun to bring in new faces to a show, it doesn’t always work for every story. A number of OG characters were being written out with new ones were being introduced.
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The promo materials for the fourth season of Elite made it very clear the upcoming series was bringing along a lot of changes.
This review of Elite season 4 contains major spoilers. Benjamin and his three kids in Elite season 4 (Image: Screengrab) Frankly, I would have sat down to type out a review for Elite season 4 earlier if it hadn’t been so boring.