Disappointing third season. A lot of the arcs felt rushed and even contrived. Emotional continuities are not aligned. I was also very confused with why Samu and Guzman didn’t get evidence of Polo confessing to them? I don’t know, this just really paled in comparison to the previous seasons.
This season really suffered from the sizeable cuts to the cast that resulted in the actual plot of the season being about multiple love triangles. This is a stark departure from Season 1 where Polo + Christian + Clara were kept a minor detail of the story (but still used to develop Clara's father's character and speak to class differences) so as not to overshadow the main Marina plotline. They also for some reason played this season extremely safe; nothing bad really happened to any of the characters.. I kept waiting for some real shit to go down but all we got was the last 20 minutes of the final episode, the final shot of which I assume sets up the next season the way the trophy set up Season 3.
Speaking of Season 3--that was also a real banger with the Skins-style direction of having an episode following each character as even minor characters like Valerio had their time to shine (and he ended up being one of my favorite characters). As I mentioned, this season lacked the character relationships to do that again since it basically just rotated between Samuel/Ariana/Guzman, Omar/Ander/Patrick, Rebeka/Mencia/Armando, and Cayetana/Phillipe in every episode.
All told, this is sadly the weakest season of an otherwise stellar show. It still wasn't bad by any means--I never found myself not caring about any of the characters like I do with some shows that hang on for too long. Hopefully it was impacted by COVID or something and we'll get something grittier next time around.
