Narcos (2015)
There's no business like blow business.
A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 28 August 2015 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 1 September 2017 |
| Genre | Crime, Drama |
| Created by | Chris Brancato, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard |
| Starring | Pedro Pascal, Matias Varela and Damián Alcázar |
| Seasons | 3 seasons, 30 episodes |
| Episode length | about 51 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 26 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.1/10 |
Where to watch Narcos
Narcos is streaming on Netflix ($17.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Netflix, or $17.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Narcos runs 26 hours across 3 seasons. That is a long time to spend inside the machinery of Colombia’s drug trade, where the violence is loud and the paperwork is louder. It treats the cartels not as caricatures but as businesses with ledgers, which makes their collapse feel like a slow, messy unraveling rather than a clean victory. The tone is gritty and unglamorous, stripping the romance from the myth. It is for anyone who wants to see what happens when the system tries to catch up with the money.
How it did with audiences
Narcos skipped the box office entirely, so the real ticket price is your time. On TMDB, users rate it 8.1 out of 10. It is the kind of show where the ending feels less like a resolution and more like a warning.
What came next for the cast
Pedro Pascal moved from Game of Thrones to The Mandalorian. Boyd Holbrook traded Gone Girl for Logan and Indiana Jones. Wagner Moura shifted from Elite Squad to Civil War. The credits list these titles. They cannot prove Narcos caused the pivot, but the timing is striking.
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Sources
- Narcos on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q20642206 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Narcos” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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