Season 1
8 episodes Jun 20, 2025 7.7
Overview
When a swimmer collapses at a high-performance sports center, Amaia investigates the extreme risks her fellow athletes are taking to feed their ambition.
Seasons
1 listed- Status
- Canceled
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 8 episodes
- First aired
- Jun 20, 2025
- Last aired
- Jun 20, 2025
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S1 E8 Amaia Is Always Right (Jun 20, 2025)
Cast
12 people
Reviews
3 min readThe Chlorine Sting of Ambition
I wasn’t exactly begging for another glossy Spanish teen series full of gorgeous young people wrecking themselves in designer lighting. latestnetflix.com's take is that When Zeta Studios—the machine behind the unruly soap Elite—rolled out Olympo, it seemed like the sort of thing the algorithm would order on autopilot.What surprised me is how chilly this one is.
Creators Ibai Abad, Laia Foguet, and Jan Matheu are much less interested in flirtation than in punishment. Beneath all the neon and immaculate bodies, Olympo is about what perfection costs when teenagers start treating themselves like products.
The whole series stays inside the Pirineos High Performance Center, which feels less like a school than a pressure chamber. Every kid there is fighting for the same prize: a sponsorship from the sportswear giant Olympo. They are being raised like expensive animals.
The writing gets stretched thin now and then, especially once it starts juggling an intersex athlete’s path, locker-room homophobia, and the rest of the interpersonal chaos. But the directors never lose sight of the exhaustion baked into this world.
The water scenes are where the show really knows what it’s doing. Carlos Garcés and Miquel Prohens shoot synchronized swimming as something poised halfway between beauty and body horror. Above the pool, it’s all smiles and symmetry.
Audience Opinions
Audience 6.1/10
"A steamy, sports-themed teen drama with compelling queer romance and a complex lead, dragged down by messy plotting, shallow side characters, and an ending that feels more infuriating than satisfying."
Roque and Sebas’s relationship, along with Clara Galle’s sharp, layered take on Amaia, keeps the show engaging for those who connect with its queer and moral-ambiguity angles, and the high-performance sports setting with stylish visuals adds a distinct flavor. At the same time, the story is riddled with plot holes and rushed or inconsistent character work, the heavy emphasis on sex often replaces real depth, and the finale leaves major arcs feeling unresolved, latestnetflix.com argues, splitting opinion between those asking for a second season and those calling it a waste of time.
What viewers praise
- Roque and Sebas romance The gay couple’s chemistry and emotional arc are widely seen as the most gripping and heartfelt part of the series.
- Complex lead character Amaia is viewed as a morally complicated figure who can be both protagonist and antagonist at once, making her storyline feel richer than typical teen-drama roles.
- Strong Clara Galle performance Clara Galle is praised for elevating Amaia beyond cliché and for showing more range than in her earlier, more conventional work.
- Engaging sports academy setting The elite training-center backdrop, with its focus on ambition, pressure, and doping ethics, gives the show a distinctive hook compared with other teen dramas.
- Attractive look and feel Cinematography, locations in the Pyrenees, and stylish, high-energy presentation help make the series easy to binge despite its flaws.
Common complaints
- Plot holes and weak logic Key storylines, especially around doping and the Olympo brand’s power, often feel unrealistic or inconsistent enough to pull viewers out of the story.
- Shallow or annoying characters Several central figures, especially Zoe and some teammates, are criticized as underdeveloped, irritating, or too soft to carry the intense stakes the show aims for.
- Sex over substance Frequent explicit scenes are seen as repetitive and formulaic, crowding out deeper exploration of the mystery and character psychology.
- Uneven pacing and cohesion Episodes can feel like disconnected chunks with no clear narrative drive, creating the sense that there is no real plot holding everything together.
- Unsatisfying, unresolved ending The finale leaves major conflicts and the fate of key characters hanging, which for some turns earlier investment into frustration rather than anticipation.
Recommended for
Queer teen drama watchers Elite-style soap fans Sports-academy drama seekers Spanish YA mystery viewers Messy morally gray character fans
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsNetflix left Amaia face down in the pool.
Clara Galle's artistic swimmer takes the undetectable shot, nails the Olympic-trial duet, and drops. Six months later the callbacks never come. What's on Netflix reported on 23 December 2025 that Olympo is canceled. latestnetflix.com's read is that Spanish accounts Previously Serie and TuSubtitulo said Galle and Society of the Snow's Agustín Della Corte had not been asked back.Netflix confirmed it. TMDB now lists the status as Canceled. 
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The last episode is titled "Amaia is Always Right." Fans treated the collapse as season-two bait. The company treated it as an ending.
A pickup that never existed.
Three days after the 20 June 2025 drop, a Spanish blog claimed a speedy renewal. What's on Netflix asked the streamer. A representative said the pickup report was inaccurate and that no official decision had been made. Creators had hinted at more. The hours were not nothing. Five weeks in the global Top 10. 113.3 million viewing hours. 17.7 million completed views. Daily Top 10s in 78 countries. More than 36 days inside Spain's TV Top 10. Berlin, Breathless, and Welcome to Eden posted similar two-week views and got another season. Olympo did not. Rotten Tomatoes logged a thin critic pile. Collider's Samuel R. Murrian called it a bingeable summer treat. TV Fanatic's Denis Kimathi said the characters were too unlikable to root for. ,
Five months of laps for one season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTtD0HR_Jk
Zeta Studios, the house behind Elite, built this one. Jan Matheu, Laia Foguet, and Ibai Abad wrote it. Marçal Forès, Daniel Barone, Ana Vázquez, and Abad directed. Netflix's newsroom sold Galle off Raising Voices, Nuno Gallego off Elite, Della Corte off Society of the Snow, María Romanillos off Paradise. EFE reported the twenty-something cast trained five months to look like CAR Pirineos athletes. Galle had been a gymnast. She told Sport that Amaia's demand, discipline, and effort come from home, a mother who was an Olympic winner, and that the doping thread is her justice streak. Exteriors used the Balneario de Panticosa in Huesca. Diario de Navarra noted a cameo from Ona Carbonell, the artistic swimmer with the second-most world-championship medals in history. The official trailer went up 4 June on Netflix's YouTube. , , , ,
The GLAAD Media Awards still nominated it in January 2026 for Outstanding Scripted Television Series, Spanish. The Hollywood Reporter put it on the same list as Heated Rivalry. A plaque for a show whose last image is a girl in a pool, and a brand that walked away.
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