{"id":545411,"date":"2026-06-20T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/545411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:56:23","slug":"oasis-review-netflix-resort-drama-more-elite-than-white-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/545411\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Oasis’ Review: Netflix Resort Drama More ‘Elite’ Than ‘White Lotus’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf I were to tell you the new Netflix series \u201cOasis<\/a>\u201d begins with a flash-forward to a shocking crime at a luxury resort, your eyes might glaze over faster than I could say \u201cThe White Lotus.\u201d The obvious comparison isn\u2019t wrong, per se; \u201cOasis\u201d even includes frequent B-roll of waves crashing on the beach, the same visual device \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d creator Mike White uses to suggest the turmoil beneath the hotel\u2019s glittering surface. But \u201cOasis\u201d hails from Spain, the same country that supplied the streaming service with eight seasons of the deliciously trashy teen soap \u201cElite\u201d before that series concluded in 2024. In truth, \u201cOasis\u201d plays out more like the latter show than a prestigious, high-minded exploration of class dynamics and extreme wealth. The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one\u2019s critical faculties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by the same creative team as the true crime series \u201cThe Asunta Case,\u201d including Ram\u00f3n Campos and Jon de la Cuesta, \u201cOasis\u201d reveals these priorities early. When resort employee Celia (Victoria Kantch) goes missing, the show doesn\u2019t investigate her disappearance through the lens of law enforcement or even her own father, who manages the resort. Fruitful as it might be to center the action around a man forced to appease his customers as he fears for the life of his child, the chosen protagonists of \u201cOasis\u201d are instead Celia\u2019s best friend Helena (Ana Garc\u00e9s) and Dani (Tomy Aguilera), a guest who\u2019s formed a romantic attachment to Celia despite meeting her less than 48 hours before her disappearance. Dani provides the voiceover, filled with strained metaphors about earthquakes and sermons on the importance of summer, but the pretense that the dialogue is taken from his interrogation is quickly abandoned. Can a couple kids really match the forensic skills of an actual police force? No, but their frantic attempts to find their friend while managing their own hormones are at least more telegenic.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most significant impact of the police presence is that the chief inspector (Ver\u00f3nica S\u00e1nchez) orders the entire Oasis property placed on lockdown while the search for Celia continues, trapping all the haves and have-nots in cramped quarters. In this hothouse environment, class conflict is heightened, as when the air conditioning goes out and staff have to sacrifice their room fans to sweaty guests; so are more prosaic tensions, though that may just be the nature of a \u201cGossip Girl\u201d-like story of precocious adolescents. This is a world where the long-term relationship of spoiled teens Maca (Berta Casta\u00f1\u00e9) and Pablo (Manuel Duarte), on the rocks due to his philandering, is treated with all the solemnity of a full-blown marriage, and corporate tycoon Esperanza (Mercedes Sampietro) speaks to her granddaughter Laura (Laura Sim\u00f3n) like a full-fledged business partner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe social commentary of \u201cOasis\u201d is both bluntly stated and ultimately marginal. Helena struggles in vain to find a scholarship so she can pursue her education, while one high roller sneers that a staffer reaching above his station thinks \u201cyou can live off those of us who make the world go round.\u201d But any cathartic rage is diffused by the one-dimensionality of the characters meant to express it. The chip on Helena\u2019s shoulder makes her believably feisty and quick to anger (although her constantly coiffed wavy bob constantly reminds us we\u2019re watching an actor in full glam rather than a working-class hero). Pablo\u2019s younger sister Alicia (Candela M\u00e9ndez), however, is generically troubled and erratic; she seems to live only to sporadically antagonize Ja\u00e9n (\u00c1lex Mola), Helena\u2019s ex who deals drugs for extra cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis lack of development doesn\u2019t apply only to figures on one side of a staggering wealth gap. Dani\u2019s de facto stepsister Sof\u00eda (Ada Molina) and Maca\u2019s best friend Leo (Amanda Palomino) both engage in ill-advised affairs, but we learn little else about them besides their id-driven impulses. When answers finally arrive about Celia\u2019s whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance, they both strain credulity and feel like they\u2019re missing big chunks of lead-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYet the mismatch between the stated premise of \u201cOasis\u201d (finding Celia) and its actual interests (hot young people misbehaving) is a telling one. Barricading everyone inside the hotel ostensibly ensures Celia\u2019s abductors can\u2019t leave the property. In practice, it just convinces the bored youth on both sides of the employer\/employee spectrum to blow off some steam with a booze-fueled party. We\u2019re now entering the summer months, when the Emmy arms race gives way to less demanding distraction. \u201cOasis\u201d nails the latter vibe to a tee.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll eight episodes of \u201cOasis\u201d are now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If I were to tell you the new Netflix series \u201cOasis\u201d begins with a flash-forward to a shocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,1004,128],"class_list":["post-545411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-oasis","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116783257134903017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}