If you miss the “Elite” series, Netflix has just drawn its worthy heiress. What is the Spanish “Olympo” fiction worth?
What is it talking about?
The best athletes in the country train at the center of high performance in the Pyrenees, such as Amaia, the captain of the national synchronized swimming team which requires only the best of itself and allows no error.
But when her teammate and best friend Núria surpasses her for the first time, Amaia realizes that some athletes inexplicably improve their performances … After years pushing their bodies to the limit and sacrificing their life for sport, they are confronted with a dilemma: how far are they ready to go?
Who is it with?
Created by Jan Matheu Montserrat, Laia Foguet and Ibai Abad, Olympo is the new Spanish series to follow. Composed of 8 episodes, it can count on a charismatic cast with a few already known names which should attract Netflix subscribers.
We thus find Clara Galle become popular thanks to the trilogy through my window and the series ni una más, but also Agustín della Corte (Le Cercle des Neiges), Nuno Gallego (Elite, A Dos Tres: New Generation), María Romanillos (Paraíso), Juan Perales (Elite) and Andy Duato (Hit) and Najwa Khliwa ( Piezas).
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Like an elite, Olympo is expected to launch the career of young talents for whom the Spanish series is their first experience, like Nira Osahia. The Millennials will also have the pleasure of finding Fanny Gautier, who embodied Alicia Jauregui in the series one, back, very.
Is it worth a look?
Completed after 8 seasons, 64 episodes (with 7 spin-off mini-series) and 6 years of broadcast on the platform, Elite is the longest series in Netflix. The Spanish fiction of Darío Madrona and Carlos Montero was a huge success for the platform and revealed stars like Arón Piper or Ester Expósito.
The Spanish productions very often meet success on Netflix and the platform found its successor with an equally caliente fiction, colorful and charismatic characters and as many twists and turns.
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Coming from the same producers as Elite, Olympo takes up the same ingredients that made the success of the previous fiction. Exit the Elite Las Encinas Lycée, Netflix Subscribers of Fits of this kind of fiction will discover the High Performance Center in Pyrenees where the best athletes train.
These young people who spend their time training to be the best are isolated in this center. Their common goal and the restricted space bring them together, which creates many romantic or purely sexual relationships, giving rise to very sexy and evocative scenes, in the same vein as elite.
Netflix found an elite successor
Olympo's trailer already set the tone and we can say that the 8 episodes of the series hold all their promises by bringing us to the elite atmosphere, with twists, betrayals, sex and love stories, against a background of sporting performance.
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Elite fans will not be at all disoriented with this new fiction not recommended for the under 16s, which uses its sporting intrigue to evoke many societal themes such as doping, homophobia in sport, mistreatment or the abusive environment of sponsorship.
The many twists and turns between the characters will inevitably make lovers of the genre and fiction fans in the elite vein and if success is there, Olympo could well follow in the footsteps of his big sister and have many seasons.
The “Olympo” series is available on Netflix.
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