Omar Ayuso is returning to the classroom…
Netflix has released the trailer for the eighth and final season of its longest-running Spanish scripted series Elite, starring the 26-year-old Spanish actor.
Premiering on July 26, the new season will see a death roil the fictional high school.
The teen drama has been airing since 2018 and revolves around the relationships among three working-class students enrolled at the elite school through a scholarship program and their wealthy classmates.
In Season 8, the arrival of siblings Emilia and Héctor Krawietz, leaders of Las Encinas alumni association, shake the school foundations. Influential, powerful, corrupt and corrupters, the Krawietz will scatter chaos wherever they go and will destroy the lives of those who fall prey to them. Only Omar will be able to face them and will be willing to do anything to see them fall, because in the end, they represent everything that has always been wrong in Las Encinas.
Created by Carlos Montero and Jaime Vaca, Season 8 stars Ayuso, André Lamoglia, Valentina Zenere, Mirela Balić, Gleb Abrosimov, Fernando Líndez, Nadia Al Saidi, Ander Puig, Carmen Arrufat, Mina el Hammani, Iván Mendes, Maribel Verdú and newcomers Ane Rot, Nuno Gallego, Alexandra Pino and Mario Ermito, among others.
Montero confirmed in October 2023 that Season 8 would the last.
“We ended on a high note,” said Montero. “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 and we’ve had the luxury of having Maribel these last two seasons. Élite changed everyone’s life, there are actors who started with us and it has been their springboard to be now world stars, it is happening to this cast and it is a pride to have contributed to that and to know that they have seen us all over the world and liked it.”
