Episode Guide
Carla’s review score is 3.5/5, Samuel and Guzmán’s review score is 3.5/5, Cayetana and Valerio’s review score is 3.5/5, Lu’s review score is 4/5, Ander’s review score is 3.5/5, Rebeca’s review score is 3.5/5, Nadia and Omar’s review score is 3.5/5, Polo’s review score is 4/5
Elite Season 3 feels like the end of an era. The first two seasons did well to balance a big ensemble of eclectic characters across its run-time, indulging in a heady cocktail of drugs, sex and murder and back for a third season, Elite picks up right where the climactic second left off. Season 3 highlights both the best and worst parts of this show, while pulling it all together for a reasonably satisfying conclusion at the end.
Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Season 3 is set to release on July 4th, and if you’re a little rusty on all the nuances of this story, it’s highly recommended to watch those first. In its simplistic form, the story revolves around a group of teenagers at a prestigious school who find their world turned upside down when fellow student Polo kills one of their own, Marina. The third season of Stranger Things follows the characters as they investigate what happened to Marina after she was last seen in the school library. The season also introduces new characters including Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), a new student who befriends Eleven; Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery), an outcast who becomes friends with Mike; and Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer), a girl who seems to know more about what’s going on than she’s letting on. If you haven’t watched Stranger Things yet, it’s highly recommended that you do so before Season 3 releases on July 4th. The show is based off of novels by Stephen King and is full of suspense and mystery that will keep you hooked until the very end. ..
As the season begins, we are introduced to Polo, a young man who had been killed just a few months earlier after falling out of a window. With at least 8 different people classed as suspects and each with their own motives and reasons for killing Polo, the story jumps back and attempts to fill in the blanks to the big question hanging over this season – who murdered Polo?
This season of “The Middle” introduces two new characters, a new flame for Carla in self-made, rich student Yeray and the shady Malick, who winds up in a relationship with Nadia while exhibiting interest in her brother, Omar.
Compared to the rest of the group, these two do little to advance the plot and with Yeray in particular, he’s given little to work with other than serving as a plot device for Carla to inject her with more empowerment.
The mystery of who killed Polo is intriguing enough, but the two big episodes here – episode 4 and the season finale – are easily the stand-outs. The midway point sees all the drama spill over in dramatic fashion at a blackout party while the finale does a wonderful job piecing together all the puzzle blocks we’ve been given across the season to see exactly who did kill Polo that fateful night. The final 20 minutes of this episode then wrap up most of our plot points while leaving enough open to interpretation as the final credits roll.
The season does well to cling to the same structure previous ones have, with pockets of the future added for dramatic purposes. This time around the series focuses on individual characters for the future flashes (and the episode titles may give you some clues on who these are!) while progressing through the days leading up to that night. All of this converges at the end during a slick finale that sees these snippets of scenes from the party aligned in a really nice showcase.
Elite is a better show than season 2, but the mystery and drama up until that point isn’t as strong. ..
Netflix’s Elite Season 3 is a show that has maintained a level of quality and intrigue over the years. The new characters this year are disappointingly undercooked though, but Polo’s murder is an intriguing enough anchor to make for a solid season of entertainment to watch. ..
