By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Having finished watching a series of TV shows including “Breaking Bad” and “Sons of Anarchy,” I was looking for a new show. I stumbled across “Narco,” a Netflix-made series on drug lord Pablo Escobar and the DEA in Colombia.
It’s a show worth watching. It intersperses real news video clips to give it some authenticity. Escobar died in 1993 at age 44.
Deadline Hollywood describes it this way:
Written by Chris Brancato and directed by Jose Padilha, Narcos is the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels across the globe and attendant efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It centers on notorious Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal), a DEA agent sent to Colombia on a U.S mission to capture and ultimately kill him.
Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro writes:
“If you’re at a party and snort a gram of cocaine, look at how many people died (for it), how many lives were destroyed. ” That’s what Narcos executive producer Jose Padilha wants audiences to be conscious of when they watch his 10-hour Netflix series Narcos, which follows the 1980 drug war between the U.S. and Colombia’s kingpin Pablo Escobar.
“The drug policy that we have in the U.S. hasn’t worked in the last 30 years,” said Padilha, “The Nancy Reagan ‘Just Say No’ approach doesn’t work.”
“So many people have died and there were so many dead bodies,” said Padilha about the aftermath of the ’80s drug wars.
