Narcos - Season 2

The hunt for Escobar continues! The second season is a bit more action-packed and uncompromising towards the characters, the gradual fall of the great Narco-baron was sad to watch, but still a very powerful, unique experience. I recommend it. The Communist Brothers are decent madmen and I'm curious about the Cali Cartel in the third season. 95%. (07.09.2017)

This is a narcotics soap opera, a geopolitical farce and a dark realistic drama. Narcos tries to switch on the autopilot from the first series, but while the dark turning point in the middle is great, trying to bend the Patron's story into a moving testament to the fall of a megalomaniac is borderline naive and a self-parody. (12.09.2016)

I enjoyed the second season, too. I couldn't help but notice the difference in quality between its first and second half, though. The first half had everything I love about this series: atmosphere, action and tension. Episode 4 was the absolute best of the series so far, so I was really annoyed by how things slowed down in the last four episodes. There were long scenes with hardly any plot, obviously meant to set up some sort of sentimental mood, but it just didn't do it for me. (07.02.2018)

The first season was a tad better, because the rise is a nicer watch than the fall. And that's exactly the key difference between the two seasons. Wagner Moura was of course fantastic as Pablo, but he wasn’t alone, the series has a lot of characters that grow on you in different ways. Directorially confident and technically precise – this applies to both seasons. We’ll see what the gentlemen from Cali will bring now. (12.10.2019)

The second season doesn’t slow down and continues to uphold the high standard of the first. While in the first season we watched Escobar slowly but surely claw his way to the top, where he had no real competition, in the second we witness his downfall, as he gradually loses one loyal associate after another, his enemies grow immensely stronger, and it's clear how it will all end. What surprised me the most was the return of Colonel Carillo—his character was one of the best in the first season, but I didn’t expect his return at all. And of course, once he returned, he couldn’t stick around for long (his death at the hands of Escobar was one of the most emotional moments of both seasons). Up until this point, Escobar was still somewhat afloat, but then the real rollercoaster began. The penultimate episode was, for many, quite boring and meaningless, but that’s not true. Escobar’s personality was perfectly captured here, and it was amusing to see an episode where, instead of scheming and shootouts, you watch a gangster helping his father repair a fence and doing things that probably weren’t very familiar to him until then. The final episode was masterfully intense, and the ending only reinforced everything. This is a series that will stay in my head for a long time because it was created by true geniuses. I give it 96%. (10.08.2017)