Netflix's newest original series, debuting August 28th, is also the latest narrative take on the mythic tale of Colombian drug czar Pablo Escobar, told through a post-Breaking Bad lens that does its best to craft compelling characters and pepper an increasingly bleak tale with spots of humor and sentimentality. It succeeds in some things and fails in others, but as a whole, the first season of Narcos is an engaging and worthwhile watch.
Gone Girl's Boyd Holbrook and Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal star as DEA Agents Murphy and Pena, respectively, partners slammed together and tasked with taking down Wagner Moura's Pablo Escobar, an increasingly powerful trafficker that's moved from electronics to *******and has aspirations fit for a king. It's a gripping tale, not in the least because it's based on real events. Narcos embraces this fact, which is both one of its most interesting achievements and its biggest fault. On the one hand, the show often cuts between archival footage and photographs of Escobar's cartel and the actors portraying them. It's a chilling reminder that the horrific acts you're seeing on the screen -- terrorist bombings of airplanes and buildings, innocent women and children murdered in cold blood -- isn't entirely fictitious.
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Gone Girl's Boyd Holbrook and Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal star as DEA Agents Murphy and Pena, respectively, partners slammed together and tasked with taking down Wagner Moura's Pablo Escobar, an increasingly powerful trafficker that's moved from electronics to *******and has aspirations fit for a king. It's a gripping tale, not in the least because it's based on real events. Narcos embraces this fact, which is both one of its most interesting achievements and its biggest fault. On the one hand, the show often cuts between archival footage and photographs of Escobar's cartel and the actors portraying them. It's a chilling reminder that the horrific acts you're seeing on the screen -- terrorist bombings of airplanes and buildings, innocent women and children murdered in cold blood -- isn't entirely fictitious.
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