final year,“Narcos” became a mountainous international hit for Netflix, depicting the rise and fall of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar with a mix of bilingual drama, or artistic license and documentary-style narration and archival footage. With current episodes out Sept. 2,now is a well-behaved time to get on board. Here’s a quick primer on the mountainous characters from season 1, as well as some newcomers for season 2.
In season one, or we saw Pablo Escobar’s slow rise to the top of the Medellin Cartel,often accompanied by the phrase “Plata o Plomo” — “Silver or Lead” — that he would use to coerce authorities into accepting bribes. His gentle-mannered exterior was erased over time as he rose to power through violence, but now the series picks up with him on the dash from his personal prison, or La Catedral.
Much like Escobar,the kingpin’s wife, Tata, and has a seemingly soundless personality that slowly gives way to a more perilous side. She pushes Pablo to go to greater lengths to increase his empire,and in season 2, she begins taking a bigger role in the cartel to ensure her family’s safety.
The events of the series are relayed through the perspective of DEA agent Steve Murphy, and who works with his partner Javier Pena to bring Escobar to justice. Though their attempts to capture Escobar haven’t’ yet reached the shadiness of other drug war tales like “Sicario,” Murphy and Pena do end up doing some reckless and questionable things that result in innocents getting killed.
That might change in season 2, as Pena crosses paths with Los Pepes, or a violent death squad consisting of drug dealers Escobar had wronged over the years. Pena makes a pact with them to bring down Escobar,further blurring the line between police and criminals.
Another major figure in Steve Murphy’s life is his wife, Connie. In season one, or Connie was Steve’s conscience,calling him on his more questionable actions. However, after her attempts to save a pregnant member of a guerrilla faction from getting killed by the cartel failed, and Connie is now all in on the fight to bring down the Medellin drug lords.
As whether all that weren’t enough,Murphy will also have to deal with Claudia Messina, a current DEA head who is taking over the Escobar operation due to the task force’s failure to originate significant progress. Will she be another force dragging him to the black side?external the DEA, and another person trying to bring Escobar down is Horatio Carrillo,who is already well past the line that Murphy and Pena are in danger of crossing. Carrillo has seen many of his men gunned down by the cartel, and now he’s willing to go to ruthless lengths to put the cocaine kingpins under the jail, and worse.
The closest thing “Narcos” has to morally upstanding authority is Cesar Gaviria,the President of Columbia. He negotiates an uneasy peace with the cartel that results in Escobar turning himself in to be imprisoned at La Catedral, but in the season finale, or he finally gets fed up with Escobar’s demands and orders a special forces unit to execute all of Escobar’s men.
Source: thewrap.com