Narcos Season 3 - anyone?

[74-911]

After they finally killed Pablo Escobar in season 2 we wondered if season 3 would be a letdown? No way, maybe even better than seasons 1 and 2. Season 3 is about the rise and taking down of the Cali Cartel by the DEA and Columbian National Police. Per those actually involved it is very close to what actually happened, a little poetic license in places (often because some those involved are still alive)..

AND as a footnote, while scouting for locations for Season 4 in Mexico, the location scout's bullet riddled body and car were found a couple of days ago in one of the most dangerous places in Mexico.. Season 4 is the rise of the Mexican Cartels. They are considering moving back to Columbia rather than try to shoot it in Mexico.

[dan88911]

Yeah! I am a fan.
Enjoyed seasons 1 and 2.
Planning to view season 3 this weekend.

[SpyderMike]

finished it off already...good!

[Paco Anton]

[willtel]

I like it but I wish they would just let the Spanish speaking characters speak English. It can be annoying trying to keep up with all the subtitles.

[Adrian Thompson]

Off sick and binge watching season 2 right now. It's a great series and I was worried about season 3 knowing that escobar (I refuse to honor him by capitalizing his name) would be dead by the end of S2. This is the first I've heard about a location scout being murdered. That sickens me and I'm not sure how I feel about continuing to watch now.

[Khal]

That was a decent show, it showed both the perspective of the DEA and Pablo. If you ask me Netflix ripped off another Pablo series (which is must better IMO) and made Narcos to target it towards an American audience.

Once you've finished Narcos check out Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal. The production value isn't as good as Narcos but that show is about the Columbian view point and not the US. It shows how Pablo grew up and started his drug cartel. Its only 1 season long but there are 74 episodes so in HBO math that is 7 seasons of material. The entire show is in spanish with English subtitles but its pretty good. After a few episodes you're either hooked or your turn it off.

When you think about it, that guy and his murderous family were crazier than all American serial killers combined. They blew up a jet, murdered around a 1,000 cops, were also terrorists on top of narcos. They blew up buildings, murdered politicos, ran child prostitution rings and on and on.

I can't stop watching because I'm at the point in the series, early on where Pablo went from a pussy to a murderous hefeh, to becoming a demon from hell. I wonder what he'll do next? The reviews on netflix by columbians that live in Medellín say this is great crime history and 95% accurate.

From what I've read in reviews the only thing missing in that crime doc is his relationship he had with Castro and they left out the motorcycle murder teams that went after cops left and right in Medellín. In a few months when I'm done my spanish will be a hell of alot better.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80035684

[Khal]

Originally Posted by dan88911

Yeah! I am a fan.
Enjoyed seasons 1 and 2.
Planning to view season 3 this weekend.

I thought the dude that played Pablo did a decent job. Later I read he wasn't from Columbia and was from Brazil and heard he didn't know spanish well. The Columbians say he accent was terrible.

The other series I watched this Andrés Parra as Pablo Escobar nails it.

Do a google image search of Andrés Parra. He transformed right into a near exact copy of that thug and his acting as Pablo is quite good.

[Tidybuoy]

Originally Posted by 74-911

After they finally killed Pablo Escobar in season 2

You just ruined it for me! I'm half way thru season 2

Thanks Bud

[masraum]

I haven't watched it, but I saw this on the news yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/17/netflix-scout-for-narcos-tv-show-found-shot-dead-in-mexico

A location manager working for the Netflix series Narcos has been killed while searching for places to film when the show moves from Colombia to Mexico for its fourth season.

Netflix confirmed the death of the scout. “We are aware of the death of Carlos Muñoz Portal, a respected location manager, and offer our condolences to his relatives. The facts are still unknown as authorities continue to investigate what happened,” its statement said.

The Narcos series is about the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Its fourth season will reportedly focus on the Juárez drug cartel in Mexico.

Muñoz had worked on films such as Man on Fire, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and the fourth film of the Fast and Furious franchise.

There are fears in the Mexican film and television industry that planned productions could now be moved from the country after the killing of Muñoz.

A friend of Muñoz said that on Monday he drove to the location to take some photographs for Netflix. The circumstances that lead to his death are still unknown, but Muñoz’s body was found hours later in his compact car, having been shot several times.

And now this is showing up online.
Narcos: Pablo Escobar's brother says Netflix should 'provide hitmen' as security after location scout is shot dead | The Independent

Since news of his killing emerged, Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, 71, has called on Netflix to avoid using Mexico and Colombia as shooting locations "without authorisation from Escobar Inc".

"It is very dangerous," he told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview. "Especially without our blessing. This is my country."

Gaviria, former "chief of the hitmen", also said he thought Netflix should also take further security measures to protect its Narcos crew.

"You have to eliminate all threats," he said. "If you have the intellect, you don't need to use weapons. If not, you have to. In this case, Netflix should provide hitmen to their people as security."

[Otter74]

The country is called "Colombia".

"Columbia" is, variously, the name of: a US space shuttle, the capital of the US state of South Carolina, a variety of Cuban rumba, etc.

Sorrynotsorry, that's a pet peeve of mine (much of my family is Colombian.)

The actor that played Escobar is indeed Brazilian. I am really only familiar with costeño accents, but no, the actor's accent is not exactly a paisa one. I've only watched a bit of the show, but what I've watched was good.

OK, back to my pedantic's corner now!

[KevinTodd]

So if you're having withdrawals after NARCOS season 3 has ended, and it has finally settled in that BLOODLINE, RECTIFY and HELL ON WHEELS aren't coming back, I must highly recommend OZARK.

Season 1 was spectacular, from start to finish. Jason Bateman is quite the director--and he's very good in this also--as is everyone else...Laura Linney.....Esai Morales...

Watch it tonight!

[SpyderMike]

+1 on Ozark...not what you think of when you think of Jason Bateman.

[74-911]

If you have Amazon Prime, give "Fortitude" a shot. We really enjoyed and it is really different. A psycho-thriller set on an Island above the Artic Circle.

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

You just ruined it for me! I'm half way thru season 2

Thanks Bud

Oops, sorry about the spoiler Vern but you did know it was coming ?

Originally Posted by KevinTodd

So if you're having withdrawals after NARCOS season 3 has ended, .... I must highly recommend OZARK.

Season 1 was spectacular, from start to finish. Jason Bateman is quite the director--and he's very good in this also--as is everyone else...Laura Linney.....Esai Morales...

Ozark: I was kind of dubious re: Jason Bateman but he is really good in this as is the rest of the cast.

[72doug2,2S]

4 more episodes in S3. Awesomeness