Narcos - Season 2

This is a narcotics soap opera, a geopolitical farce and a dark realistic drama. Narcos tries to switch on the autopilot from the first series, but while the dark turning point in the middle is great, trying to bend the Patron's story into a moving testament to the fall of a megalomaniac is borderline naive and a self-parody. (12.09.2016)

The first season was a tad better, because the rise is a nicer watch than the fall. And that's exactly the key difference between the two seasons. Wagner Moura was of course fantastic as Pablo, but he wasn’t alone, the series has a lot of characters that grow on you in different ways. Directorially confident and technically precise – this applies to both seasons. We’ll see what the gentlemen from Cali will bring now. (12.10.2019)

I enjoyed the second season, too. I couldn't help but notice the difference in quality between its first and second half, though. The first half had everything I love about this series: atmosphere, action and tension. Episode 4 was the absolute best of the series so far, so I was really annoyed by how things slowed down in the last four episodes. There were long scenes with hardly any plot, obviously meant to set up some sort of sentimental mood, but it just didn't do it for me. (07.02.2018)