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I'm watching Elite on netflix mostly just for something to do, and it's a murder mystery show, so I at least gotta find out whodunit. But it's weird because while, yeah, sleazy shows like this aren't really my thing, it often comes so close to being something dark that could be my thing and yet I still don't care as deeply as I think the show wants.
The biggest problem is that I cannot believe high school students have the energy to be this duplicitous and catty all the time. If the characters were 19, 20 maybe I could buy it, but not 16! Do these children not have schoolwork to do?!
Tied into the fact that the entire plot hinges on characters' blackmailing and using each other so you can be lead to assume anyone is the murderer, characters don't really change or have much nuance of emotion. There's bits and pieces through the show that are exempt from this, but they're so brief it is easy to forget they happened. Where characters were introduced is more or less how they've stayed throughout six episodes of eight in the whole season. It's not the worst character writing I've ever seen, but it still leaves me bored most scenes.
The show's biggest strengths are a nifty framing device and cinematography. Actual plot and writing are just good enough to keep me around for a binge-watch, and then I'll likely forget about it in a year.
The biggest problem is that I cannot believe high school students have the energy to be this duplicitous and catty all the time. If the characters were 19, 20 maybe I could buy it, but not 16! Do these children not have schoolwork to do?!
Tied into the fact that the entire plot hinges on characters' blackmailing and using each other so you can be lead to assume anyone is the murderer, characters don't really change or have much nuance of emotion. There's bits and pieces through the show that are exempt from this, but they're so brief it is easy to forget they happened. Where characters were introduced is more or less how they've stayed throughout six episodes of eight in the whole season. It's not the worst character writing I've ever seen, but it still leaves me bored most scenes.
The show's biggest strengths are a nifty framing device and cinematography. Actual plot and writing are just good enough to keep me around for a binge-watch, and then I'll likely forget about it in a year.
