These actors are really talented, and, for me, none of them more so than 19-year-old, Ester Exposito, who plays my favourite character, Carla.Ĭarla’s complexity is my favourite thing about her. As the season went along, with the students still trying to make it through the events that came about from the murder that closed the previous season, it quickly became clear to me once more that ‘Elite’ has one of the strongest casts in any international show right now. One of the standouts among the new additions this season is Georgina Amoros who turns in a mind-bogglingly good performance as Cayetana, a poor student who is also domestic worker, but masquerades as the wealthy women she works for. Alvaro Rico, as Polo, a bisexual student hiding a dark secret is also quite impressive, as is Mina El Hammani who essays the role of Nadia, a poor, repressed, Muslim student.

Mexican superstar, Danna Paola, who plays spoilt, rich-girl, Lucrecia, stands out in a remarkably strong performance of a remarkably strong character. Having watched the second season of this particular Spanish-language TV show, I have once again come away with the impression that the cast is one of the best things about it and that the cast is one of the reasons why it is so successful. After all, we do go to Netflix and the movies and refer to books and other sources of art to indulge in fantasy, so we can escape the constraints and the difficulties of the real world. But perhaps, by doing this, ‘Elite’ is serving its purpose. It is truly a miracle, the way the writers, directors, and actors come together and manage to keep us glued to our screens, episode after episode, as we tunnel headfirst through a story that only marginally represents something the way that thing exists in real life. It convinces us to remove ourselves from reality and insert ourselves into a narrative where students seem to spend way more time partying than they do going to school, where everyone is extremely beautiful, where wrath and envy and lust are the dominant emotions. The beauty of ‘Elite,’ however, is how it convinces the audience to lose sight of the reality of the subject. ‘ELITE’ is one of those shows that greatly exaggerates its subject matter, presenting high school students as murderous, deceitful, drug-peddling, alcohol-guzzling, people with very sad personal lives.

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