Elite is an insanely watchable series about gorgeous under-age Spanish kids in an elite private colegio doing all-conceivable-manner of illegal, delightfully twisted and boundary-pushing shit. It’s a work of what one might call the ‘Movida pija’, super-saturated with what remains a central ethical, psychological and aesthetic pillar of Spanish Catholic civilization even in a post-Catholic Spain: transgression. It’s a telenovela “on crack”, as we used to say back in the day, till folks started saying “on steroids”.
One is tempted to think that the Spanish psyche’s shadow projection creates Inquisitions, puritanism, strongmen, and dictators just so that it can break the rules imposed on it and flip a finger at the world.
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