Elite New Face sounds really awesome, but skip it except for maybe episode 7-9. Too much talk & not enough showing. A bunch of talking heads from Elite ramble repetitively about what will happen and how high emotions are then the documentary shows a series of interchangeable young robot babies revealing little to no emotion. When permitted to talk, they sound like they are reading off of cue cards.
Also the format left something to be desired. Episode 1 seemed like a bad way to start, showing the end of the prior year. Episodes 2-5 were repetitive & did nothing to distinguish whether or not the search was distinctive depending on each country that they were scouting except for the accents The scouts used a lot of vague terms to describe what they were looking for, but when choosing the candidates, the action didn’t clearly illustrate what the scouts were looking for. Episode 6 kind of gives away who will actually win, especially since most viewers will say, “Two episodes in a row in this country. Why?” By episode 7 and 8, some of the Elite staff get dynamic, particularly a photographer who tells one girl that if she doesn’t keep her eyes open, some other girl will take her place then laughs like it is friendly, not a threat. Kwok Chan, a member of Elite, and Manuela, a Swiss runner up, make episode 9, which focuses on daily life after the competition, particularly human. I loved Kwok Chan, and he should have been used in every episode. Manuela is more engaging than every prior contestant and actually the series would have been better if it started at that point. The last episode is the entire penultimate competition to which I responded, “Why wasn’t this episode 9?”