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?? No it wasn’t. They might as well have named it Narcos: KiKi.
Official Narcos Mexico Season 2 Thread
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?? No it wasn’t. They might as well have named it Narcos: KiKi.
Hi lmao. No argument. I’m not trying to argue with anyone in The Film Room - y’all are all level headed from what I’ve seen. Respect for the differences in opinion. I agree to disagree - that’s all .. it’s all goodieI totally agree personally...it’s still jmo tho so I’m not tryna argue nicole of all ppl down...hi nicole
you’re not one of those tlr trolster posters.Picked up on a lot of gems and recommendations being in here.
All 4 seasons are dope in their own right. Not one bad season, but imo, season 3 is the weakest.
at Ozark getting green lit before Narcos. Narcos shyts on the trash show.
Ozark is as good as Narcos tbh. I put them on the same tier.
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Those 2 are day and night. Narcos surpasses that trash show. I tried to like Ozark, but season 1 was abysmal. So much stupid shyt. The writing was straight ass.
This was a good analysis. Thx.
JodyHiighroller
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nikkas think season 3 was weak?
TBH, in the grand scheme of things, she really wasn't that big of a player in that time period. Americans are familiar of her from those Cocaine Cowboys fantasy movies and what went down in Miami. She wasn't one of the partners of Medellin Cartel (Ochoas/Escobars/Lehder/Berna) or Cali Cartel (Rodriguez Orejuela brothers/Pacho/Chepe). She answered to them. As crazy as it sounds, and no disrespect intended, by no means was she at the level of those dudes.
I've said this before, but if anyone wants to get a much more authentic picture of the Medellin Cartel, watch Pablo Escobar, El Patron del Mal on Netflix. It's like 70+ episodes, done entirely by Colombians in Spanish with English-subtitles. They have no interest in glorifying him nor what really occurred back then, nor exaggering the USA's role in any way. They have a lot of original footage from some of the events of that time. It's not Narco's glossy, but it's gritty, reflecting that time period. You won't see any Americans running around alone in the poor barrios of Medellin or downtown Bogota slapping up taxi drivers.
If Netflix were to continue in Colombia, what came next was a massacre worse than Pablo's reign between the paracos (Los Pepes became AUC), FARC, and the government. Some truly nasty and brutal campaigns for control of the drug markets (crops, properties, ports, international markets) were waged from late 1990s to early 2000s. The gloves most definitely came off during that time. The AUC gave Los Zetas the playbook to run with.
Narcos Mexico showed how Mexico got into the game and who the top dogs were and will be. Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Rafa Quintero and Don Neto were the first Mexican cartel and responsible for how the game is now played. Of course, they deserved their season, which sets up for some interesting seasons to come. El Chapo, Los Zetas, and Arellano Felix brothers seasons will ratchet up the fukkery that occurred in the 1990s-2000s. Sandra Avila Beltran will probably be introduced in one of those seasons, as she bridged Colombia and Mexico in the late 1990s-early 2000s. Plenty of stories to tell there.
nikkas think season 3 was weak?
There just isn't as much information or notoriety on the Cali Cartel as there is on the Medellin Cartel. Pablo tipped the scales in sensationalism. They probably had more wealth than the Medellin Cartel, as they ran the entire operation like a legit Fortune 100 company, but it mostly stayed under the radar.
Had they gone deeper with the Cali Cartel, it would've led the story to the AUC (paramilitary unit that included several of the Los Pepes leaders, which ultimately killed Pablo) and their war with FARC. AUC was backed by the Colombian govt, CIA and DEA, but was way worse than the drug cartels. Social cleansing campaigns, murder of innocents and theft of their lands, there's a long long list of atrocities.
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I liked The Borgias. It's too bad it got canceled after 3 seasons.
I don't know about the quality of Versailles. I took a pass on it since I don't care about French fukkery with Louis XIV. I opted for fictional fukkery with Louis XIII from The Musketeers TV series but they made him bytch made there
I finished the international/Netflix version of "Borgia" last week. Do you recommend that "Three Musketeers" show?
Recca Gatsby
LWO
Altered Carbon???
It's aight. A procedural type ish of the era. You can tell how most episodes will end 10-15 minutes in.
Speculated release is February 2020. I just finished a rewatch of season 1, I'm feeling hyped for where they go with season 2.
Even with the Netflix polish I hope it's not El Chapo, hombreh already got two shows about him.