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Narcos

8.2/ 10

52 min

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gumstarr • 11 September 2015, 11:58

Success has many fathers, but in general there is only one figure behind every brilliant idea. Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell we can let us drive a pizza when the passion to cook leaves us for a moment, Thomas Edison showed us the light and thanks to the extensive work of Pablo Escobar we now have nice sing-alongs like: Tears Dry On Their Own, Saturday Night and of course I Wanna Dance With Somebody. At least, his invention seems to be the perfect fuel for spitting out hits and catchy evergreens like this. Viewed in this way, Pablo Escobar was indirectly actually a bigger hit machine than Sjon Joebenk. That achievement deserves its own biography and Netflix, in turn, is not afraid to meet that need. While the last hardened hippies in the back of their rusted Volkswagen T1 took another heavy hit of their joint and here and there a confused student during art class secretly tried to take the glue all over his lungs, Pablo Escobar worked in the late 1970s. in Colombia to a substance that really gets you out of your plug. Very artistic and backward America would soon draw its nose in a straight line over a mirror to numb the senses. A reclining mirror, that is, otherwise it would all look rather strange. Not to mention the mess it would give. The cocaine of Escobar and his Medellín Cartel engulfed the American states and during the 80's many people took more powder than fresh air into their lungs. When the umpteenth junkie runs off with the car radio of an innocent citizen again, America is a bit done with it. They're sending DEA agent Steve Murphy to South America to sort things out with the local authorities. Easier said than done, because apart from thick rolls of money and some forgotten mints, Escobar also has almost the entire judicial system in his pocket. All difficult. For Murphy & co. then, because Pablo himself is of course very satisfied with the course of events. I once wrote about Breaking Bad that it was just as addictive as the crack Pinkman and White were cooking in their dilapidated mobile home, so I can't use that sentence again. Too bad, because it would nicely cover the Narcos load. Episode one was great, two, three, and four dragged on a bit, but from five on, there was no stopping it. Season one slipped in faster than a lamb shoarma dish after a night out. Nice to look at a series in which you have not seen the cast in a hundred other productions. Apart from that Puerto Rican dude who's in everything, but whose name you never know (Luis Guzman), it's a face book full of new faces, at least for me. Wagner Moura, like Pablo Escobar, is convincing and is occasionally assisted by old archive footage of the master himself. This increases the feeling that you are looking at truthful history, while of course everything is regularly doused with the necessary salsa sensational (that is Spanish for sensation sauce). Colombia as a decor is something different from the rainy streets of New York or the candy color setting of LA and this produces a deluge of beautiful images. And I don't know about you guys, but I love beautiful images. Beautiful images taste like more, so it's a good thing that Netflix has already announced that we can wet our chest for Narcos round 2 next year. Cómo impresionante es eso ?!

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anonymous • 11 September 2015, 12:45

Totally agree with this piece. And indeed a different environment than the standard large American city.

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CC11 • 11 November 2015, 18:41

It is indeed a very nice series if you like the genre. Although the basic information is based on true facts, the story is not presented completely correctly and a number of things have been adjusted to make things seem smoother than it actually went. I therefore consider this series to be a romanticized, forgive the expression, version of the Colombian series "Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal" which had 113 episodes in the original version or 74 in the international version as seen on Netflix USA. is. More extensive and much more detailed than Narcos, and therefore a bit slower to look at but at least as good, if not better. However, it is striking that they have worked with a much smaller budget than was the case for Narcos, but the frequent use of authentic images and a protagonist (Andres Parra) who frankly makes the Pablo Escobar from Narcos pale, make up for everything. The story in El Patron del Mal is told more from the point of view of Pablo Escobar and also shows you better what a paranoid sociopath he was.

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CC11 • 4 September 2016, 19:54

The second season is also quite worthwhile although I remain with my opinion that an Andres Parra, the squinting, fake Pablo from the Colombian series "Pablo Escobar: El Patron del Mal" could have taken this series to an even higher level, because I find Wagner Moura a lot less convincing in the same role. And yes, as far as the correct representation of the whole story is concerned; Netflix itself indicates at the beginning of each episode that part of it is fiction to dramatize the story, so we really can't complain about that. And now we have to wait and see with whom and how Netflix will continue this series because it was, because of the great success, almost certain that they would not stop after the death of Pablo Escobar. In Mexico they will certainly be able to get some inspiration, but you can also continue the story in Colombia with the Cali cartel or go back in time until well before the period of Escobar. Plenty of choices.

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toetje1977 • 24 September 2017, 02:07

Season 3 ... insanely good!

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RNSCHEDE • 4 September 2015, 21:00

Super series! Was sold after 5 minutes. Detailed and truthful series about the rise of the world's largest cocaine dealer ....

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anonymous • 14 September 2015, 09:10

What a great series! One of the best Netflix originals!

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HereIsTom • 14 December 2016, 23:29

Recently started this series, very nice, season 1 already finished!

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HereIsTom • 4 January 2017, 16:48

Checked out! Highly recommended, finally a realistic series with a good story!

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rzeegers • 7 September 2017, 20:19

After the Season Two finale where Pablo Escobar died, I thought, what next with Season Three? Fortunately, Columbia has a rich history of drug cartels, and the logical next step was to base a new season on the Cali cartel, who were partly responsible for getting a hold of Pablo. This third season could again fascinate me, in which the entire corrupt country at that time came to the fore, the high-profile drivers of countries such as the US knew this, and thus helped the game of cat and mouse. In which the true moral knights and warriors still want justice at all costs, endangering the lives of them and many others around them. The conspiracies, bribes, and money-bought power of the Cali Cartel have made this season a joy to watch too! Realistically presented, with some pretty intense scenes here and there.

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anonymous • 18 August 2015, 10:03

Funny. This series has yet to start, but two people have already voted so that the series has a 5.5.

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hcz • 26 December 2015, 22:19

wow, devoured this series. viewed all season in 3 evenings. Normally take a little longer over a season. Learned a lot again about the biggest drug dealer ever and filmed it in a dragging way. This is highly recommended!

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anonymous • 23 August 2015, 18:23

This series seems very interesting to me, I will definitely watch it!

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Toontje35 • 30 July 2019, 22:48

8.3

Cool third season. I thought (even) better than the first two. A lot of speed, action, excitement: 9

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