The party's over in the final season of 'Narcos: Mexico'
There's a scene in the final episode of 'Narcos: Mexico' that pretty much summarises the entire franchise. "The War on Drugs?" says one DEA agent. "I think the drugs are winning," says the other. The one thing that 'Narcos', and its Mexican counterpart, has never done is show the glitz and glamour of the drug trafficker's lifestyle. Whenever we saw Pablo Escobar at the height of his power, Wagner Moura's performance as Escobar felt restrained and almost morose about the trappings of wealth. Later, when the series transitioned to the so-called 'Gentlemen of Cali', the business-like nature of their enterprise gave it a cold, distant remove. 'Narcos: Mexico', however, changed the script yet again. The excellent first season culminated with Diego Luna's character, Felix Gallardo, calmly and brutally torturing Michael Pena's DEA agent character in a sunny but admittedly rundown house somewhere in the capital city. The second season saw the criminal enterprise expand and contract in the course of ten episodes, with Diego Luna's character promising even more bloodshed with his absence.
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