The Netflix message reads: "Las Encinas opens its doors for the last time in a new eight-episode season full of secrets, rivalries, corruption and excess in the purest Élite style."
Elite has been airing since 2018 and is set in a fictional high school. The teen drama revolves around the relationships between three working-class students who enroll in the elite school through a scholarship program and their wealthy classmates.
In season eight, the arrival of brother and sister Héctor and Emilia Krawietz, leaders of the Las Encinas alumni association, shakes the foundations of the school. Influential, powerful, corrupt and corrupting, the Krawietz will spread chaos wherever they go and will destroy the lives of those who fall prey to them. Only Omar will be able to take them on and do anything to bring them down, because ultimately they represent everything that has always been wrong in Las Encinas.
Season eight stars Omar 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 in the leading roles.
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.”
Elite season eight can be streamed from Friday, July 26. Watch a short teaser below.