Olympo Review: A Fast-Paced Watch With Terrible Characters

Olympo Review: In this Netflix sports drama series, CAR Pirineos is the place to be for Spain’s most promising athletes. But, like every sports event, there’s a ton of rivalries to sift through and improvements to make if they want to make it big in their field. Who will have their life changed forever at the end of it?

The series has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 45 minutes.

Olympo Review

Netflix’s Olympo might leave you quite annoyed at times, surprisingly. Focusing on the athletes in a high-performing school set on sending their students to the Olympics and whatnot, the series showcases the downsides of these places with intense pressures and how people crack under the load of ambition and desperation to win.

Amaia is a control freak whose mother pushes her to push her limits, and new girl Zoe is battling an inner demon and finding it difficult to focus. Everyone else is somewhat of an extension of these two people; while Amaia’s boyfriend, Cristian, doesn’t have the discipline to nail down his rugby physique, his best friend, Roque, is struggling with his sexuality and finding love.

Meanwhile, Zoe, too, is struggling to connect with people in her new school. However, all of this comes to a head when Amaia’s best friend Nunu outperforms her and then almost drowns. This incident starts a chain reaction of Amaia destroying everything and everything around her.

Olympo, like a lot of Netflix shows these days, is fine. It’s not great, but it’s not bad either, and, for the most part, it’s extremely bingeable. The series is hard to put down once you start watching it, and more so thanks to the twists and turns that it throws our way. I am not a huge fan of sports dramas, but this one is quite an easy watch without too many complexities, which makes it easy to get into the flow of the runtime.

The situations surrounding doping and homophobia are the most interesting part of the show, and the series does a good job of showcasing that. It shows one with thrill and the other with sympathy, so you find yourself drawn. However, the series’ biggest problem is its characters. Not one of them is likeable or rational, which makes this a bit tedious. You want to find one person who is not completely morally bankrupt or stupid, but it’s one or the other with this lot.

It’s annoying to see everyone making stupid decisions episode after episode, and more so because they are terrible people than anything. Amaia is the worst of the lot, and it gets difficult to sit through her ranting about how great she is every few minutes. There’s also a ton of graphic, intimate scenes here that make this one quite NSFW. Despite the characters, the performances are great and the sports sequences interesting, so you do find yourself stuck!

Final Thoughts

As I said, Olympo is fine. It’s not terrible, but it’s not quite memorable either. However, I will lean more towards watching it than not, only because it’s super bingeable and looks beautiful.

Also Read: Olympo Ending Explained: Does Amaia Find Out the Truth? What Happens to Nunu?