User Reviews

This season of Narcos allows viewers to experience and empathise with the highs and lows of both the DEA following the very likeable, hard-working Walt Breslin, and those on the other side of the law, notably Felix Gallardo and Pablo Acosta.

The Gallardo saga, in a similar way to Escobar, came to an inevitable end, however without the same grandeur of Escobar. You genuinely feel for Gallardo as his empire suddenly collapses around him, in a time you felt as if it was at a high, perhaps unlike Escobar. It seems unjust to Breslin and his DEA task force, who put in so much hard work, only for it to be credited to Calderoni, save for a somewhat muted accreditation for Breslin in an insincere recognition ceremony. This feeling of a lack of justice and fairness underpins the entire Narcos saga, where a truly favourable outcome for the DEA or drug lords is impossible. However, the show emphasises this point, and does an excellent job at stating just how unsupported and futile the valiant and commendable efforts of the DEA are. This is why I, personally, love Narcos.

On a final point, Pablo Acosta's arc and story was excellently portrayed in the show, and humanised a drug trafficker guilty of many crimes to the point where, before his death, you see him as a respectable man of strong core values who you can empathise with. Episode 8, for me, was the highlight of another strong season of Narcos.

Watching "Narcos: México" and living in Guadalajara gave me a sense of being too close for comfort. Despite what you see in the show, drug cartel violence during the mid 80s to the mid 90s was pretty much under the hood. Guadalajara metro area is a very big place: over 3 million inhabitants, so violence is always lurking somewhere, but compared to what is happening today, drug cartels back then were far more discreet. "Narcos: México" moves at a a much slower pace than the original 3 seasons of "Narcos" and that's because of what I said: things were kept under the hood.

The show takes some liberties story and chronologically wise. For instance, Felix Gallardo never really gave "the call" to murder Héctor Palma's wife and kids. That part of the story happened slightly more accurate in "El Chapo" series (also on Netflix and surprisingly well produced). The fallout between Felix Gallardo and the rest of the drug lords didn't actually happen as shown but rather sizzled out as Felix Gallardo was imprisoned.

It's chilling watching a show where I have crossed paths in real life with some of the mafia's relatives. I would like to know what THEY think of this show. "Narcos: Mexico" could go on for ages as this drug problem is far from being solved here in Mexico. As long as there's demand, there will always be someone who supplies.

The series has top notch production values as with previous Narcos seasons. Diego Luna is heading to become a powerhouse actor. Who would've thought that a little fat kid starring in cheap Mexican soap operas would turn into a seasoned actor?! The rest of the cast is equally impressive.

If there's a season 3 of "Narcos: Mexico" it would be chapo's rise to power, although like I said, "El Chapo" series was already made and for the most part, pretty faithful to actual events.

It has been said by those living there that as bad as things were under Saddam in Iraq, he kept the religious factions from killing each other in the streets. It was the very iron fist that we Americans found so intolerable that kept the peace. One Iraqi man said, "At east with Saddam you could walk the streets at night."

Same deal in Mexico with Felix. In the final scene everything he said seems to have come true. The inter fighting between the cartels has bathed Mexico in blood. Innocents caught in the cross fire.

Would his iron fisted rule kept the peace?? Cannot tell. All "emperors" fall so everything may have played out the way it has anyway.

I recall when Mexico was the place to vacation. Now it is a place to avoid. Americans are top priority for minor street gangs to kidnap. The chief income for gangs not part of the cartels. And if you do not get kidnapped, you could get shot in a cross fire between two rival cartels!

Go to Cape Cod instead!!

A good finale until that moment in jail and that sealed it. It wasn't perfectly dramatically-written and that is why it worked. Everything made sense and the idea of Felix correctly predicting how things would play out clinched how great it was.

Felix has, so far, been able to keep the plazas in line with barely disguised bullying. Now, he decides to try outright terrorism to enforce his will on people he has barely been able to persuade until now.

He has crossed a bridge too far by ordering the killing of Palma's family. Had he had Palma killed, the outcome would have been nearly the same, but killing innocent family members disgusted the plaza bosses and enraged them as well.

Felix exposes himself as a sociopath and cancels his own authority with one move. He looks exactly like Pedro Aviles as the plaza bosses walk out on him at the meeting he calls. His ignorant arrogance causes his downfall.