Elite to End With Season 8 at Netflix
Class will soon be permanently dismissed on Elite.
Netflix on Wednesday announced via its myriad socials that the Spanish teen drama’s upcoming eighth season will be its last. The somewhat offhanded declaration comes just two days before Elite Season 7 drops.
“We ended on a high note,” series creator Carlos Montero shared Wednesday at a Season 7 press event in Spain. “Jaime [Vaca, co-showrunner for Season 7], Netflix and I thought it was time to end it. I say this with great regret because it’s been several incredible years in which I’ve met wonderful actors, we’ve worked with all the directors we wanted to work with… Élite changed everyone’s life.”
In announcing Elite‘s Season 8 pickup back in July, Netflix made no mention of its being the final season. The streamer did, however, confirm at the time that Mina el Hammani, who played Nadia during the show’s first three seasons, will reprise her role in Season 8.
El Hammani isn’t the only Elite OG revisiting the high school-set soap.
As previously reported, el Hammani’s TV brother Omar Ayuso, who portrayed Omar during Seasons 1-5, is back for Season 7. Viewers will also see more of Nico’s fling Sonia (Nadia Al Saidi), who recurred in Season 6. They’ll be joined by new additions Mirela Balic (Zorras), Fernando Líndez (SKAM), Gleb Abrosimov, Iván Mendes (Estoy vivo), Alejandro Albarracín (+ de 100 mentiras) and Maribel Verdú (Now & Then), as well as trilingual singer Anitta. Leo Sbaraglia will play Isadora’s father. (Watch a moody teaser for Season 7 here.)
Elite‘s eighth and final season is slated to bow sometime in 2024.
There is so many loose ends at the end of season 5 plus Miguel Herrán’s character never got a proper send off because of Money Heist, I was hoping the final season to bring some of them back to give us real closure. They should have end the show with season 3 and do a spin off. It was a very very well written soap opera and It did became a lazy soap, nicely woke, but badly written.
It’s probably time.
I’m trying not to overthinking what Omar being in season 7 and Nadia being in season 8 may mean for what goes down in season 7…
I think he’s just going to finish school. I don’t think it’s more complicated. Didn’t they show him in his uniform?
I think they’re just trying to give us a single familiar face.
It was fun but it’s time to pull the cord. The first 2 seasons will still remain in my pantheon of perfect teen tv.
I think every season was done well even when the main characters left the newer ones were as interesting as the original’s
Still got Class (the Indian remake) if you need your Elite fix. Actually looking forward with how they handle S2 and it’s differences… since their Christian prob won’t leave.
I got hooked on Elite but started to lose interest once the original characters started to leave. I do still watch though.