Netflix "Narcos" Season 1 Thread

[Bruce LeRoy]

Just finished watching the final eipisode.. it's a solid show overall. The main character and his wife are kind of wack tho... dude just suddenly becomes Billy bad ass near the end of the show.... The best episode by far in the whole series was episode 6.. i think with Gacha and his son at the end.

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

I didn't see it glamorizing meth at all... the main characters damn near lost everything and pretty much became "monsters" to get to where they were in the end... and even then they still lost everything. As far as cooking it up... If anything the show made it seem harder to make than it really is... because Walt was making the best purest form of meth.... in real life you don't even need an RV to make the shyt.. theres folks that use small ass cars to make the shyt.

 

[AntoineWalkerShimmy]

Up to Episode 5 so far. Love it.

 

[L68]

Interviews - Jorge Ochoa | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS


Interviews - Juan David Ochoa | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

i'm on episode 3... loving it so far.

 

[WaddupDoe!]

ESCOBAR season.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Not reading comments yet. Bout to start episode 9. shyt has been all season at some of the shyt that happened out of nowhere. fukk YOU PABLO MALPARIDO HIJO DE PUTA ERES EL DIABLO ME ESCUCHAS???!!!!!

 

[Cladyclad]

The guy that plays Pablo deserves a Emmy nod at the least. He killing it every scene. Dude be having me shook for dudes life. He play it so calm. But got that Look

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

i'm on episode 3... loving it so far.

shyt IS CRAZY BREH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Htrb-nvr-blk-&-ug-as-evr]

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.

Thanks for the insight, bruh. Just finished Narcos and thoroughly enjoyed it, personally. I'd like to get some more details in the life of this guy and this show you mentioned might do it...

 

[thaKEAF]

Man this show is crack I've been sleeping!

Pablo didn't seem so bad until the tape recorder

 

[jaydolf spitler]

breh.

the writing. the acting is impeccable. the spanish language is so beautiful. 10/10 show i swear to you

U aint lyin. I speak a good bit of Spanish and really listened throughout the series to practice more. U miss out on how awesome they phrase things if you just watching as a lazy ass gringo.

For example when I finished the series last night I read a subtitle that said "What does that have to do with anything" and what the characters actually said was "Que tienes que ver culo con las pestanas" which literally translates to "What do ass holes have to do with eyelashes"

shyt had me like damn that's a way more awesome way to say some boring shyt like that

 

[Ohene]

U aint lyin. I speak a good bit of Spanish and really listened throughout the series to practice more. U miss out on how awesome they phrase things if you just watching as a lazy ass gringo.

For example when I finished the series last night I read a subtitle that said "What does that have to do with anything" and what the characters actually said was "Que tienes que ver culo con las pestanas" which literally translates to "What do ass holes have to do with eyelashes"

shyt had me like damn that's a way more awesome way to say some boring shyt like that

i need them real subtitles

 

[jaydolf spitler]

Just finished Episode 3. I can't take it brehs, this show is soooo good.


The main white guy looks a grown up version of Macaulay Culkin.


Colombia nikkas straight gangsters for real.

The only black guy is named "Blackie"?

Wasn't the only black guy. The DEA higher-up dude was black

 

[jaydolf spitler]

the fact that you don't know shows how naive you are. People like you should do some research before relying on some TV show to provide 100% accurate depictions. Anyway I will give you a little history lesson if that's what you want, if you wanna know more you gotta look it up yourself. At the height of its terror campaign, the Medellin Cartel killed 175 and injured 721 in Bogota between May and December 1989, the most difficult period of the cartel’s offensive. In comparison, between January and November 1989, there were 5,700 presumed political killings in the country, the majority by Colombian military units and paramilitary groups. And when they say "political killings", they're not talking about killing cartel people--they're talking about killing teachers, trade unionists, human rights activists, peasant organizers, etc. This was in the context of the communist insurgency in Colombia, which was a much bigger concern for the Colombian military and the oligarchs than the cartels. And what gets interesting is how operations and funding around anti-cartel/anti-narcotics activities got wrapped up in the anti-communist/anti-insurgency campaigns.

For anyone interested in learning in depth about the histories of some of the bigger South American countries from the 70' to this era I would highly recommend this book I'm reading right now called The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. I learned so much about Colombia, Bolivia, Pinochet and Chile, Argentina, Poland, Russia, the US etc. Been reading this book for a while and the amount of history and shyt I didn't know got me like . A lot of these countries in South America that were under rule by crazy fukkers like Escobar and Pinochet had A LOT to do with US involvement. It's wild

 

[jadillac]

Am I the only one who doesn't like the Brad Pitt wannabe looking main character?