Is Pablo the star?The only thing I hate about this show is the narration, that shyt gottafor Season 2.
You've never heard of Pablo Escobar? It's in Colombia, they slang nothing but coke and I ain't talking cola.
Netflix "Narcos" Season 1 Thread
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kingdarius
Wtf u talkin bout? Ya Bish
I watched the entire season now and let it soak in.
They should've stuck to telling the story from the perspective of the Colombian side, or at least from the Latino DEA agent, someone who understood what the hell was going on and what they were in the middle of. It would've been much more realistic and probably would've topped classics like The Wire and Breaking Bad. This story really needs no Hollywood embellishment to sell tickets. shyt was beyond crazy in Colombia in that time period. There was no need to force in unbelievable American involvement in the history of this story.
The idea that a non-Spanish speaking DEA agent is able to not only understand what is being said all around him in Spanish, but also to roam around the barrios of Medellin and Bogota undetected in the 1980s, is complete BS on a hundred-thousand-trillion level. And his wife volunteering in a clinic in Pablo's barrios like all was good....again, with no Spanish??? Yeah okay. This is all revisionist history. This story didn't need them nor the CIA, who had nothing to do with Colombian narcos at that time. This DEA dude pulled a gun on a taxi driver in downtown Bogota.... Yeah okay.
In reality, the reporter chick didn't hang around to the end, like this series portrayed. She was shady as shyt too, but bounced on Pablo midway through the time period. Of course, he reached out to her to let her know. But, they did her wrong in this series. Same with how they handled the hostages (family of the ruling class).
Pablo's Medellin partners and the Cali Cartel were made to look like punks, when in fact they weren't, by any stretch of the imagination, except for Hollywood. In fact, google the Cali Cartel to see if their depiction in this series, matches up with reality.
They didn't even bother going into the depths of the Colombian para-military forces (Los Pepes and later AUC - death squads made up of police and military officers), who actually committed many atrocities to make it look like Pablo randomly killed folks. You want some goon fukkery, google AUC Colombia history.
History » Colombia Journal
They didn't really go into the depths of Pablo's bribing of all levels of police, military and political systems. Some of the Colombian dudes that supposedly were the DEA's go-to people were Pablo's paid informants.
The M-19 thing was set up for them to kill a supreme court judge and to burn all of the evidence against the narcos so that they couldn't be extradited. M-19 had their own other reasons to take over the building, but Pablo wanted to take advantage of their plan as well. The military made the decision to shoot mortars into the justice building and storm the building, killing all of those judges, hostages and all of the M-19 members. Crazy, but true. Pablo considered himself left-wing, so he wouldn't killed M-19 after.
They glossed over how Pablo got to be so powerful in the streets. Dude built entire neighborhoods, put people to work legit jobs, built football fields and parks for the kids to play, fed the hoods AND was the law of the hoods. No rapes, robberies, murders, etc. That made the barrios loyal. Now check how El Chapo's life is playing out.
This series is entertaining for the fukkery. But if you know the story, you'll recognize many of the gaping holes and gratuitous Hollywood crap.
It's all in Spanish with English subtitles, but Escobar, El Patrón del Mal (Escobar, Godfather of Evil) is what you should watch. Escobar, El patrón del mal (TV Mini-Series 2012) - IMDb It's long as f*ck, like 74 1-hour episodes, but so, so raw. It's on Netflix. It's El Chapo's the Mexican cartels playbook....but from the 1980s-1990s.
They should've stuck to telling the story from the perspective of the Colombian side, or at least from the Latino DEA agent, someone who understood what the hell was going on and what they were in the middle of. It would've been much more realistic and probably would've topped classics like The Wire and Breaking Bad. This story really needs no Hollywood embellishment to sell tickets. shyt was beyond crazy in Colombia in that time period. There was no need to force in unbelievable American involvement in the history of this story.
The idea that a non-Spanish speaking DEA agent is able to not only understand what is being said all around him in Spanish, but also to roam around the barrios of Medellin and Bogota undetected in the 1980s, is complete BS on a hundred-thousand-trillion level. And his wife volunteering in a clinic in Pablo's barrios like all was good....again, with no Spanish??? Yeah okay. This is all revisionist history. This story didn't need them nor the CIA, who had nothing to do with Colombian narcos at that time. This DEA dude pulled a gun on a taxi driver in downtown Bogota.... Yeah okay.
In reality, the reporter chick didn't hang around to the end, like this series portrayed. She was shady as shyt too, but bounced on Pablo midway through the time period. Of course, he reached out to her to let her know. But, they did her wrong in this series. Same with how they handled the hostages (family of the ruling class).
Pablo's Medellin partners and the Cali Cartel were made to look like punks, when in fact they weren't, by any stretch of the imagination, except for Hollywood. In fact, google the Cali Cartel to see if their depiction in this series, matches up with reality.
They didn't even bother going into the depths of the Colombian para-military forces (Los Pepes and later AUC - death squads made up of police and military officers), who actually committed many atrocities to make it look like Pablo randomly killed folks. You want some goon fukkery, google AUC Colombia history.
History » Colombia Journal
They didn't really go into the depths of Pablo's bribing of all levels of police, military and political systems. Some of the Colombian dudes that supposedly were the DEA's go-to people were Pablo's paid informants.
The M-19 thing was set up for them to kill a supreme court judge and to burn all of the evidence against the narcos so that they couldn't be extradited. M-19 had their own other reasons to take over the building, but Pablo wanted to take advantage of their plan as well. The military made the decision to shoot mortars into the justice building and storm the building, killing all of those judges, hostages and all of the M-19 members. Crazy, but true. Pablo considered himself left-wing, so he wouldn't killed M-19 after.
They glossed over how Pablo got to be so powerful in the streets. Dude built entire neighborhoods, put people to work legit jobs, built football fields and parks for the kids to play, fed the hoods AND was the law of the hoods. No rapes, robberies, murders, etc. That made the barrios loyal. Now check how El Chapo's life is playing out.
This series is entertaining for the fukkery. But if you know the story, you'll recognize many of the gaping holes and gratuitous Hollywood crap.
It's all in Spanish with English subtitles, but Escobar, El Patrón del Mal (Escobar, Godfather of Evil) is what you should watch. Escobar, El patrón del mal (TV Mini-Series 2012) - IMDb It's long as f*ck, like 74 1-hour episodes, but so, so raw. It's on Netflix. It's El Chapo's the Mexican cartels playbook....but from the 1980s-1990s.
I loved this whole season. My favorite Netflix series.I don't give a fukk what people says I putting this right below The Wire, it is that good.
I wonder how much is true though.
I don't want to even read this thread, I bet simple nikkas are complaining.
ETA: Aint nothing wrong with that cac DEA agent. He is like the McNulty of this show. If they put another Latin dude in there, it becomes a "Latin" show and doesn't get attention from the powers that be.
The Wire when it was on barely got attention or promotion from HBO.
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I don't give a fukk what people says I putting this right below The Wire, it is that good.
I wonder how much is true though.
I don't want to even read this thread, I bet simple nikkas are complaining.
ETA: Aint nothing wrong with that cac DEA agent. He is like the McNulty of this show. If they put another Latin dude in there, it becomes a "Latin" show and doesn't get attention from the powers that be.
The Wire when it was on barely got attention or promotion from HBO.
This thecoli of course all the coli geo narco historians are complaining
Bbbbbbbbbbbut why they didn't go into depth about Pablo's third grade math class
Exactly breh. Talking about it is going too fast a pace (
) but if it was going slow to build up a story like Bloodline nikkas be complaining too. But for real any Colombian brehs here? Historically is some of that stuff accurate, like ol'boy was behind that plane being blown up?
:wowwow2:
Slightly off topic this is why I can't take America's bullshyt wars seriously, the fukk they doing in the middle east anyway? Taking one nikka out of power, so someone more demonic takes his place.
Exactly breh. Talking about it is going too fast a pace (
But for real any Colombian brehs here? Historically is some of that stuff accurate, like ol'boy was behind that plane being blown up?
:wowwow2:
Slightly off topic this is why I can't take America's bullshyt wars seriously, the fukk they doing in the middle east anyway? Taking one nikka out of power, so someone more demonic takes his place.
Yes most of the big plot line stuff was true
Him killing the politicians
The blowing up of the plane
The killing of reporters
Him building his own prison
There have been documentaries and movies on him before but this one definitely is the best out
basedsavior
Banned
what's your reasoning? BB was glamorise but not this? 
Pablo's life was way more glamorise than some 50 year old white man with cancer living in a typical home in hot ass New Mexico with an ugly bytch wife and a retarded son. Like, I'm trying to understand your logic. Pablo Escobar was the king for years, I wanna say at least 20 years. He was a billionare, had more power than one man could handle, basically ran Colombia. Had the whole country shook, they couldn't even touch him. Then forced them into letting him build a fukking mansion as his "prison" and a lot of other shyt that I'm missing. How could Walt, who only had a 2 year run, was running scared for most of it, just got lucky with the DEA on his ass basically as soon as he got in, and tons of other nonsense plus what I said earlier have made you think that way? I think you may want to slow down breh. 
nah, BB glamorized selling meth. they made it seem like if you have a RV and the right equipment, you could become a millionaire over night. Narcos makes its clear that you will more than likely die a painful death if you set foot in the drug trade
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Jaylen Tatum
Superstar
Will check it out
So the only options are a slow build or run through 12 years in 10 episodes while skipping a ton of shyt?Exactly breh. Talking about it is going too fast a pace (
And I fukked with Bloodline.
HookersandIceCream
#TeamOrange
WW was a fart in the wind compared to the hurricane that was Pablo
I'm gonna have to neg you for your ignorance