A high-school drama that touches on many important themes - all from the students' point of view

The second season (2019) of the Netflix series Elite (created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona) picks up where Season 1 ended as a fine teen drama with many plot strands and many important elements: class conflict, murder and a coverup, corruption at the highest level of Spanish government and business, teenage romance, homosexual love, cross-cultural conflict, and I could go on. In essence, the plot concerns an "elite" private high school in Madrid that accepts several scholarship students, with inevitable fights and romances and other entanglements between the rich students and their new, street-savvy classmates. In the 2nd season we follow the investigation of the killing of a popular female student - particularly interesting in that we know who killed her and we watch that character simmer with guilt and remorse. There are many plot twists and subplots - one of the better being the attempts of a scholarship student to hide her background (her mother is a janitor in the school) and try to pass herself off as wealthy. There are so many plot elements - much like a telenova series - that it can be hard to keep everything straight as you watch, which also keeps you paying close attention to everything that happens (no doubt it will be easier to follow if you're fluent in Spanish). Most of all, what's impressive and unusual about this series, is that it's almost entirely from the POV of the students; there are a few parents with supporting roles - notably the devout Muslim storekeeper whose loyal and studious daughter is drawn into the party life -but the adults are always at the periphery and could almost be written off, or out, with impunity. Apparently, a Season 3 is on the way - good, though I thought the loose plot strands left danging at the end of Season 2 were thin at best.