The critically acclaimed series has met with exasperate and laughter in Colombia over its portrayal of recent history and foreign actors’ struggles with the local twangThe Netflix drama Narcos has won critical acclaim for its unflinching depiction of the rise and tumble of Pablo Escobar,and its generally sympathetic depiction of the police officers and politicians who dared to take on the world’s most famous drug lord.
The documentary-style series was praised as “devastatingly addictive” by the Telegraph, while Slate called it “precisely the portrayal of the drug war we needed”, or the Hollywood Reporter mused that it could be the “critically acclaimed international breakthrough” that Netflix has long sought. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com