The drama and danger of those days is captured in the Netflix series Narcos.
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Wagner Moura stars as Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in the Netflix original series, “Narcos”.
Narcos now gets to narrow in on Escobar’s attempts to keep his empire active while his rivals close in. It was, for us, the kind of experience you want to have, because we in Brazil are very isolated in South America-we are this big country that speaks Portuguese and consumes its own culture.
“My friends, after they see one episode, they go to Google to see, ‘did this really happen?'” the Narcos lead actor, who plays Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, told CBC during an interview in Los Angeles. “You’re in the time frame that the show poses for you”.
I don’t think there’s a show that’s ever been better than “Breaking Bad”, in terms of that sort of genre.
“I always remember [Escobar] saying he wanted a body count – he wanted more bodies so that way he could show Colombia that he was winning the war”, explains Peña to the camera. When we get older languages aren’t the easiest thing in the world {to learn}, but at the same time it was very important for me to have a relationship with that universe.
Netflix has already revealed that Pablo Escobar dies this season.
But then, you don’t really know which side to choose in this concoction of morally bankrupt characters.
The Netflix Original series has been a huge hit, showing the rise of legendary drug kingpin Pablo Escobar over more than a decade and the global efforts to take him down.
When Escobar was suspected of murdering two men inside his prison (a crime he is DEFINITELY guilty of), it was decided that he should be moved to a proper prison.
The show begins with DEA agent Steve Murphy pursuing Escobar on behalf of the American government, after Escobar’s cocaine begins to negatively affect the economy and society in the states.
In the nearly year-and-a-half chase between Escobar and the police includes the Bogota shopping center bombing that killed 21, including children, and injured dozens and the drug king pin’s inheritors teaming up to take him down.
The actual Murphy, no, but my Spanish is better than the Murphy I play on the show.
The 10-episode season 2 of “Narcos” will stream on September 2 on Netflix.
The closing episodes of “Narcos” brings the rise of Escobar’s successors: the Cali Cartel and its top men, Helmer “Pacho” Herrera and Escobar’s former partner, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. He frowns more, he has stress lines on his face, and we see more close-ups of Moura.
So don’t let go of the opportunity and soak up as much as you can about this man, one like no other, a monster like no other who had the world at his feet at one point in his life and was shot down bare feet on the roof of a house in the same town he ran as the king.
This time though, Escobar isn’t just going to accept the slight victory.
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I can say that the idea is to have a third season about the Cali cartel, and another one about Mexico.
