ORLympo
Type: teen drama
Director: Jan Matheu, Laia Goguet and Ibai Abad. With Clara Galle, Nira Osaia, Agustín della Corte, Nuno Gallego, María Romanillos, Andy Duato, Najwa Khliwa, Laura Ubach. On Netflix
Sport as a background and pretext for telling other dynamics represents a device increasingly used by the seriality of streaming platforms. Last arrived, in order of time, is Olympoa Spanish series in which young athletes of different disciplines “compete” together to access important sponsorships of brands and carve out a space for the Olympic races.
The series presents all the mechanisms and classic canons of the “teen drama”along the road of other gender series from Spain (above all, Elitethe production house is the same).
Clara Galle and Laura Ubach in a scene of “Olympo” (photo of Matías Uris/Netflix).
The relationships between the boys and girls who attend the federal center aimed at preparing them for agitism develop according to clichés and stereotypes of the genre, from love to homosexuality to doping: The captain of the synchronized swimming team, in fact, suspects that his partner will abuse substances.
As compared to Elite and to other similar productions, Olympo However, he cannot detach himself from certain exaggerations and obviousnessputting too much meat on the fire. A positive aspect is the critical approach to some social problems that dot the world of competitive and professional sport.
For those who love stories of teenagers and messages of sports narratives.
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