Rent Narcos (2015 - 2018)
4.4 of 5 from 61 ratings
- General info
- Synopsis:
- Narcos is an American biographical crime thriller TV series that portrays the rise and fall of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, told through the perspective of American DEA agent working in Columbia at the time named Steve Murphy. Actors include Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Paulina Gaitan and others.
- Actors:
- Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Joanna Christie, Martina García, Maurice Compte, Pêpê Rapazote, André Mattos, Eric Lange, Matias Varela, Javier Cámara, Roberto Urbina, Diego Cataño, Arturo Castro, Jorge A. Jimenez, Paulina Gaitan, Bryan Arion, Andrea Londo, Kerry Bishé, Luis Fernando Hoyos
- Directors:
- José Padilha, Gerardo Naranjo, Guillermo Navarro, Gabriel Ripstein, Andrés Baiz, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Fernando Coimbra
- Producers:
- José Padilha, Tim King, Sidonie Dumas, Jason George, Paul Eckstein, José Luis Escolar, Christophe Riandee, Lorenzo O'Brien, Jesse Rose Moore
- Creators:
- Carlo Bernard, Chris Brancato, Paul Eckstein, Doug Miro
- Writers:
- Jason George, Carlo Bernard, Paul Eckstein, Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Adam Fierro, Dana Ledoux Miller, Zachary Reiter, Eric Newman, Andrew Black, Steve Lightfoot, David Matthews, T.J. Brady, Samir Mehta, Rasheed Newson, Dana Calvo, Julie Siege, Ashley Lyle, Zach Calig, Bart Nickerson
- Genres:
- TV Action & Adventure, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Thrillers
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Reviews (2) of Narcos
Up there with the Sopranos - Narcos review by MB
I cannot believe that nobody has written a review for this series.
It's up there with the Sopranos.
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Brilliant, Captivating, Classic Netflix, Drug Cartel Drama on Pablo Escobar - Narcos review by PV
This is as good as series one, or maybe even better. EVERYTHING is right - the casting, the acting, the writing, the setting, the plot progression, the music. Filmed in Colombia too which is great, and I do not mind subtitles at all. So authentic and fascinating. The way real-life TV footage of 1980s and early 90s is spliced into the drama really works - which surprised me. But it works. It just does. We even see real TV footage of Pablo's mum at the end.
I would watch this all over again, It is that good. The only people who maybe should be worried are South American tourist boards as the place looks dodgy and dangerous as hell really, with massive violence and enormous poverty, and so a destination to be avoided. For me, anyway.
The Brazilian (I think) actor Wagner Moura plays Pablo Escobar with class and style - PERFECT casting. Even if the belly prosthetic and fake beard look a bit off. That is very common in TV drama BUT the locations here look so authentic. You can almost smell the humidity and heat, not to mention the crime, corruption and danger.
Wagner and the writers of course manage to make Escobar, a brutal charismatic drug lord who murdered so many so ruthlessly, a victim in the end. This can be done - as with Hitler in DOWNFALL of the TV drama about Saddam. And it works - these people are all just human. They were all babes in arms once...
It is sad to say but maybe a TV version of this not made by Netflix would have played it safe, and censored the name 'Blackie' for a start and maybe insisted on more female roles as they do these days - I am SO glad the producers of this did not defer to the diversity quota orders common now. Of course, in many ways, the very word 'Gringo' for all white people is racist... It is authentic though so why the problem?
The extras on disc 3 here worth a watch too. The only thing I would have liked more is some on-screen information at the end about what happened to the characters who got arrested and also to Pablo's family.
5 stars. if this series has not won awards then it has been robbed.
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