Netflix "Narcos" Season 1 Thread

[We Major]

$60m a day

 

[H.S.]

I just finished episode 9. I'm in awe of how good this shyt is. If I was a rapper I'd sample mad shyt from the show, but the most gangster and poetic lines aren't even in english.

 

[SanchoPanda]

Smh. I can't even watch this shyt on my phone. Volumes too low? Just me?

just you

 

[Ohene]

just you

these fukkin loud buses man

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

$60m a day

In the 80s

 

[DCMC]

Gustavo: " We are banditos, not snitches Motherucker!"

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

In the 80s

It's a lot now too breh that's 60 million a day. Even though it's a lot how the hell do you launder all that money. That's why their called Banksters. Goldman sachs, chase, credit suisse, and a bunch of other banks were caught laundering drug money a bunch of times and they would pretend they had no idea. .

 

[Uno]

The broad Gacha goons gang raped...

She was but that scene left me

I would of still maybe .

 

[Fortunate Lee]

It's a lot now too breh that's 60 million a day. Even though it's a lot how the hell do you launder all that money. That's why their called Banksters. Goldman sachs, chase, credit suisse, and a bunch of other banks were caught laundering drug money a bunch of times and they would pretend they had no idea. .

lol that's 75 millon today. and i agree , them dudes were hating on pablo..acting like they shyt didnt stink..and it basically turned him into a fukkin monster/devil.
couldve saved a lot of lives by just accepting him in the government.

farc is still running colombia right now..fakkits thought killing pablo would stop the coke business.

 

[detroitwalt]

Most reviews have been great as expected. But the biggest complaints are from the colombian crowd, they can obviously spot if the accents are good or not...you cant blame them but they got that other series on netflix about pablo with real colombian actors. This one was done for the international crowd.

And they have to drop the narration.

What show is this?

 

[Fortunate Lee]

What show is this?

el patron del mal

70+ episodes

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

One episode 1, and it was kind of a chore to get through. I didn't like the narration, I understand the nod to 'Goodfellas', but this rather dull and cliched DEA agent is no Ray Liotta. So many dull and derivative scenes, the bowling alley, the foot pursuit, the 'I had to kill a teenager' scene, the murdered partner, the 'plata or plomo' scene. The teenager/pregnant mule scene seems heavy handed and only a brief reprieve from what is essentially a retread of a dozen other movies, a ceaseless glorification of violence and carnage.

Love the Brazilian as Escobar, great acting, subpar script and plotting. Luis Guzman is way over the top, which he never seems to have under control. The shotgun scene was especially bad, a weary overdone shot, the freeze frame/brutal excuetion scene. The entire thing is a like a history lesson light, effectively shot and budgeted, but not much different in affect from dramatizations in documentaries over the years. The first episode is way too glossy and cliche for me to be really invested in any of it. 'Escobar: Paradise Lost' was a bad movie, with a great Pablo Escobar, a nuanced portrayal, with menace and brevity. This Escobar is well acted, but none of it is compelling, or interesting, despite a fascinating character and story.

Their are moments of insight, or moral ambiguity that are briefly grabbing, quickly vanishing for the scenes of dispatching of the un loyal partner, or other well worn stories in these sagas. It's well produced and slick enough to be barely watchable entertainment, but this is not great television.

pilots are usually the worst episodes... shot on a totally other budget, months or years before they are picked up and given money for the rest of the show


don't ever judge something purely off the first ep.... coli don't agree on much... but this show is universally loved here and it really picks up as it gets deeper

 

[We Major]

You have to respect Escobar at times, he gives zero fukks and plays on the greed of people. The amount of people he has working for him in different organisations is crazy

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

If they keep this show going and cover El Chapo's rise after Pablo's death.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

lol that's 75 millon today. and i agree , them dudes were hating on pablo..acting like they shyt didnt stink..and it basically turned him into a fukkin monster/devil.
couldve saved a lot of lives by just accepting him in the government.

farc is still running colombia right now..fakkits thought killing pablo would stop the coke business.

If Pablo stayed in his "lane" and quiet he probably would still be alive...

When he hit Forbes and tried to run for congress the most powerful families that run the country felt threatened...Pablo was a peasant who came from nothing trying to take over a country run by silver spoon fed fakkits that inherited their wealth...The majority of them were no better than Pablo was but felt entitled to power because of their family name...

Then you had the Americans who were pissed off because cocaine was taking dollars out of American industry pockets...So the Colombian oligarchs enlisted the aid of the Americans to take the common enemy Pablo down...This demonic union was entirely responsible for the war and bloodshed that followed...

The majority of that bloodshed was due to extradition which the Americans and oligarchs wanted because Pablo was so popular they could never keep him in a Colombian prison...He practically owned the country...They bribed and killed just as much as Pablo did to get what they wanted...