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Narcos — A Scintillating Series

The much anticipated second season of Narcos, the taut crime thriller set in Colombia, is now available on the Netflix streaming service. In a word, it’s scintillating. It lives up to expectations. Focusing on the real-life narco-terrorist Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel he controlled with an iron fist, Narcos has all the elements of […]

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Narcos

Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar in the Netflix Original Series NARCOS. Photo credit: Daniel Daza/Netflix

Colombia , in the 1980s and 1990s, was in dire danger of degenerating into a dysfunctional narco state under the thrall of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar. Netflix’s riveting 10-part series, Narcos, reconstructs Escobar’s rise to notoriety and his blood-soaked confrontations with the Colombian government. The show is narrated in understated tones by a U.S. Drug […]