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ELITE UPDATE 2: THREE SEASONS FINISHED

Ookayyy let's go so my first elite (let's say review) was after watching just 4 episodes and forming a holy shit amount of opinions for every character coz boy was I wrong..anyways I just finished 3 seasons of elite!.. like wow can't believe that. so let's talk about it. Firstly I get that this is a murder mystery show but like do we get someone or the other getting killed of in the end or like what? okay first things first I said some wild things about some of my babies and i really wanna retract my statement because these people are my babies.. guzman, lu, omar and ander lord i had absolutely no idea that there characters would be here now, like god! okay nadia and guzman I was shipping it then and I am shipping it now (although they broke up, but fuck that! they're still together for me) yeah, so like, believe me no one I repeat not a single person saw the whole nadia and lu friendship coming , like it literally hit me and I was like wha-

THE throuple ended, some people died and we got our second favorite couple - samuel and carla!! aghhh they were soo cute. love them so much! just fyi if you also love them, then don't see the short stories they literally broke up every single couple in there) now coming back to the elephant in the room- POLO*** jesus but I from a hundred miles away could not even think this was gonna happen, like my 1st update is evidence of that, I was so indifferent towards him coz I just didn't care! he was a sidekick imo but somehow this guy even after MURDERING someone made me feel sympathetic for him!! for a murderer like how did they do that!? Polo's death actually made me cry more than marina's ( never liked her but still). He was going through so much . He was in pain. like watching him struggle through life was insanely difficult and his mom supporting patriarchy after being in a lesbian relationship was another level of rage for me. But boy the guy did have a thing for throuples (I am still wrapping my head around the first one) ooh and newbies-- cayetana ,rebeka ( not sure i spelled it right), valerio (*heart eyes*) oh and emir ( idk if that's the name but carla's rich bf) These people somehow pulled the rug right out of my feet. Valerio was in the headlines in s2 and s3. Firstly s2 the whole thing with lu..ooh but that was a bit (no actually very much) weird. Let's not go there. Yeah and the whole cayetana thing..nicee ( as in story wise not in disrespecting your mother for her work wise) i don't really like her tbh but I have a strong gut feeling that I would eventually end up loving her. I still wanna say sorry to guzman. You're the best srsly. samuel I love you, but what you did to rebeka was wrong. So fuck you ( but like gently) yeah uhm rebeka.. okay so new story and lots of drama *widens eyes* obv I love her like how could anyone NOT love her. She's a total babe. ugh this is getting really long okay yeah so about my future elite plans...? none for now, I feel like s3 ended on a good note for me. And if I am being honest. I dug up a bit and found out that samuel and guzman have some beef over a girl in s4 and I am def not in the mood for seeing there friendship get messed up. So yeah for now it's a goodbye to elite. I feel like there should be one more update coz I missed some major plot points like the whole ander and omar thing, and nadia's dad and yeah lu and party scene but *shrugs* let's see.

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Hannibal and Killing Eve parallels

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I don’t know how has it taken me this long to post about the Infamous 8 seconds, insert funny laugh here.

I know everyone was like What happened, I had to re-watch to understand, I mean really.  Oh and in no way was it 8 seconds more like 3 seconds LOL.

Okay then, moving on.  Now episode 4 starts with us hearing BECK’s thoughts.  I have to be honest I had to get used to that. I wasn’t digging it at all the first time I watched it.  Her way of thinking was just so juvenile to me.  Over time I got used to it.  What I didn’t like was the part where we had to watch the same scenes twice. Yes I know we had to get his take on it too.  Him with her old phone were a bit of an overkill.  How is she not getting a bill for still using it.  That situation cannot last it’s already unbelievable.

Without going over every boring thing that took place, I have to say Joe showing up at the place she was meeting up with her family was another unbelievable jump we had to make.  I do see how if she was so scattered about her family she might overlook it in favor of having him around although he was more agreeable than her step family.  However that could only take us so far.  She showed up at his hotel room and he somehow hides all this taboo evidence of having pillaged her panties and Peach’s book.  Joe is a super hero.

The woman playing her stepmother Emily Bergyl  seems unusually young but it could have been the custom or the fact that her father has gray hair, not sure.  I knew I recognized her which is the only reason I looked it up she was a boring addition to Beck’s story but now we get why she said her father is dead.

In episode 5, Joe’s leap to go after Peach was not unexpected. She had been goading him this entire time  Seriously, if you don’t like someone it is better to keep your “trap” shut especially if it’s all speculation.  Had Peach been doing research on Joe it would have made more sense, but the sense of it all comes later.

I do love how well Shay Mitchell played the spoiled rich girl all alone with the job and all the money to spare helping her poor friend.  I will miss her.

Has anyone noticed how shoddy a criminal Joe really is?  You know he is really just a troubled sensitive young man.  He doesn’t plan these random attacks, he just goes with his feelings.  I suppose it is why we are I, assume in many ways on his side.

Even when he tries to do good he gets beat up, he can’t win for losing as they say. At least Paco is someone he dotes on even though he is teaching him how he survived and not how most people live in the world.  Yes I know Paco is a victim too.

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  Episode 6 starts with Peach being babied by Beck as for some reason Joe looks on.  I mean the guy walks in all beat up and Peach still goes after him. Her eccentric behavior is actually anger, but no one seems to notice it ever at all.  It is this dependence that Becks shares with Peach that Joe desires so much it is obvious even more now.

I will say it again in this review, why do all these shows focus on one person being the end all be all of every person in the show’s attention?  Why bother having friends and relatives if they are just eating the wall paper?  I have seen it time and time again, and the people they choose for this roleplay are the most damaged of them all, not able to stand on their own two feet as well usually have no mind of their own.

His flashbacks of his ex, Candace got to be a bit odd and all his “touching himself” was disturbing.  Do guys really do it that often?  I mean what happened to just imagination people.

Joe being in the house with them was classic Joe, but it makes you want to always check those closets when you get back to your house.  Peach watching Becks in the tub while Joe watches from the closet, all kinds of creepy.  I believe that Beck knew all along, seriously who can’t tell they are being watched from that distance.

Peach setting up a threesome from them was also weird, with Becks not interested at all, great for Joe, as he keeps seeing Candace again. I know right, he is the bad man who has mental issues.  It was great that Becks confronted Peach on being gay and Peach attacks her verbally, which really means she could have been suicidal.  Beck walks out on Peach and Joe screws up he is so mental  he takes this moment to see Candace.

{At some point I started to think what if all of this is in Joe’s head, he might as easily be locked up in a mental ward some place having this happen–you heard it here if it is true, it’s just a thought but who knows.}

Peach has her chance to shoot Joe after she knocked him out, it’s all the talking that usually makes people the victims in these shows.  They boast and rant and in the end who is the one dead in the yard.

Joe’s suicide post I have to say sounded very Peach like, he seemed to know her well maybe even more than he really knows Beck, who is really as confused as he happens to be. And Joes’ urine that was left at the scene again shows he is ruled by his passions and not by logic or being careful.  Seriously, he should have been caught by now between the glass room at his Work and running back and forth all over after Beck.

I know seeing Dan from Gossip Girl and Emily from Pretty Liars is fun.  Here they play totally different roles and we see they are great at their jobs dispite sometimes hard to deal with characters they are given.

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