And because the viewer has to be kept in suspense right until the killer is actually revealed, Marina had to in one way or another screw over all the characters, so we can all laugh and joke about her being a terrible person and who wouldn’t want to kill her. But from the second the first episode revealed Marina to be dead? This show essentially became a whodunit murder mystery, and with whodunits? You have to rip the character apart to show that they’re actually a completely terrible person, without a moral or hope of redemption in sight. She likes Samuel because he’s different to everyone else and probably the only person that’s real with her.
At first when we meet Marina she seems like a half decent person, with an extremely overbearing and controlling brother, and at odds with the world of luxury that she’s grown up in. There’s only one true negative I have about the show that I’ll get out the way. There’s no room for filler, the plot moves at a pace, each character is fleshed out enough that we can get an understanding of them even if we don’t necessarily agree with their choices and there’s bundles of character progression. Just like with another Spanish language original Cable Girls, 8 episodes is the perfect number. Thankfully Netflix tend to know what an acceptable episode length is, and are capable of giving their original programming shortened seasons with Elite coming in at 8 episodes. Where in the UK and the US it’s standard for episodes to be between 42-60 minutes long, one episode of a Spanish show can last nearly 2 hours. Stupidly long episode lengths is a problem that a lot of Spanish language shows have. The plot got far too complicated the longer the show went on, and the episodes were so stupidly long that nearly 2 years after I was first told about the show? I’m still struggling to find the time to watch the last 10+ episodes. The last Spanish language school drama I watched was El Internado.
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