There's is nothing better than watching a story told 100 times - and find it told better than any other way. This show is actually riveting. Every scene. Every line in the script. Every action. Brilliantly, the director and writers show Escobar as deeply in love with his wife and family he is but not burying it into a mass murdering, infantile, deranged, terrorist who single-handed Ky took his supposed beloved country and countrymen into a decade+ of hell on scorched earth. It's all there in a yin/yang of à personality, neither which leaves the screen too long.
The writing is brilliant. The action is on point as it is also reflected in the historical photographs portrayed throughout the series. Every single actor couldn't be more proud of their portrayals in this show. There are dozens and dozens of different characters and every one was flawlessly portrayed. Pascal and Holbrook are probably the weakest if you can believe that.
Wagner More(?) I can't say enough about him. He is Pablo Escobar. Just thoroughly brilliant.
The best is the way it shows the continued progress between a small town cigarette trafficker to the violent criminal. From the perspectives of each character. So you simultaneously loathe and sympathize with many of them.
My one issue. How does Escobar have a daughter grow from infant to 6 yr old while his son never ages? Maybe I missed something.
But if that's the single issue - it's most definitely mine.
Riveted to the point that I'm losing sleep to stay up later to watch more is a sign. This is brilliant.
What hit me the most - "6 people died so you and your buddy can have 'that oz of Coke'. Paraphrasing bc that fact is the one that matters. No one ever thinks the victims who are murdered between the growing, processing, transporting, packaging and selling of cocaine. That is the terror. And this show is an education in choices and stupidity. And luck being mistaken for success or intelligence.
The writing is brilliant. The action is on point as it is also reflected in the historical photographs portrayed throughout the series. Every single actor couldn't be more proud of their portrayals in this show. There are dozens and dozens of different characters and every one was flawlessly portrayed. Pascal and Holbrook are probably the weakest if you can believe that.
Wagner More(?) I can't say enough about him. He is Pablo Escobar. Just thoroughly brilliant.
The best is the way it shows the continued progress between a small town cigarette trafficker to the violent criminal. From the perspectives of each character. So you simultaneously loathe and sympathize with many of them.
My one issue. How does Escobar have a daughter grow from infant to 6 yr old while his son never ages? Maybe I missed something.
But if that's the single issue - it's most definitely mine.
Riveted to the point that I'm losing sleep to stay up later to watch more is a sign. This is brilliant.
What hit me the most - "6 people died so you and your buddy can have 'that oz of Coke'. Paraphrasing bc that fact is the one that matters. No one ever thinks the victims who are murdered between the growing, processing, transporting, packaging and selling of cocaine. That is the terror. And this show is an education in choices and stupidity. And luck being mistaken for success or intelligence.
