Narcos: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: August 28, 2015

Summary: The drama depicts the 1980s Medellin cocaine cartel run by Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) and the efforts of DEA agents Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook) and Javier Peña (Pedro Pascal) to capture Escobar.

Creator: Chris Brancato and Eric Newman and Doug Miro

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Despegue
Air Date: August 28, 2015
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S1:E9. La Catedral
Air Date: August 28, 2015
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S1:E8. La Gran Mentira
Air Date: August 28, 2015

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Tirdad Derakhshani

Aug 31, 2015

Intense, enlightening, brilliant, unnerving, and addictive, Narcos is high-concept drama at its finest. Read full review

Robert Rorke

Aug 28, 2015

Catching Escobar then becomes an exciting and suspenseful story arc, and makes Narcos the first cool show of the new season. Read full review

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Aug 31, 2015

Moura as Escobar doesn’t bring the overall manic and sometimes comic intensity of Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in Scarface. He’s never dull, though, giving Narcos a thoroughly sinister presence who’s capable of anything and will stop at nothing. Read full review

Tim Goodman

Aug 19, 2015

The series begins to find its pacing not long after, and we see the strength of Moura’s acting, which to his credit never races, in the early going, toward over-the-top menace or the drug-lord cliches we're all used to at this point. Credit also the fact that Padilha brings a documentary feel to Narcos. Read full review

Mark A. Perigard

Aug 28, 2015

The new Netflix drama is burdened with so much annoying voice-over narration, the series at times falls somewhere between an audiobook and one of the more grittier Investigation Discovery crime shows. This dramatization of the rise of Pablo Escobar into the most notorious and lethal drug kingpin of South America is nonetheless compelling, and the story moves briskly, making it a great bingeworthy treat. Read full review

David Wiegand

Aug 25, 2015

Virtually every performance is equal to the quality of the script, but Moura is especially compelling as he manipulates the seeming incongruities of Escobar’s character to heighten his aura of unpredictable menace.... Brancato does make one significant misstep by having the entire series heavily narrated by Murphy. Read full review

Josh Bell

Aug 27, 2015

Mostly the show is a breezy tour through history, sometimes informative but rarely affecting. Read full review

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I_loveTVnMovies

Aug 30, 2015

Narcos is very good and well done. I am actually from MEDELLIN. I am 30 years old and I grew up with that environment of violence in the streets and TV. The research is very accurate. There is something special and epic about this series. Many things work on many levels. In fact, I have seenNarcos is very good and well done. I am actually from MEDELLIN. I am 30 years old and I grew up with that environment of violence in the streets and TV. The research is very accurate. There is something special and epic about this series. Many things work on many levels. In fact, I have seen it like a kind of “docu-drama”. I find very clever the mix between fictional and real facts with the use of real footage. According to it, it keeps you watching and wondering what’s next. It is like a kind of class history of the drug-war. I like the beginning when it makes reference to the MAGIC REALISM. Just that in this case, all that really happened. All the things about being close to a policeman was true, you didn’t want to be around them because you could die with a lost bullet or something. Shootings in the night in your own street (even if it was a “good neighbourhood”) and If there was a Car-Bomb and you were at home, you would look around the house thinking and counting : ”are we all here?” “where is my brother”… not cell phones then by the way…Every single person you know from Medellin was touched or was a victim of that war. For a long long time we didn’t have Colombian movies or TV shows with that topic, because people were tired of all that; like a kind of “mediatic” trauma. That war was all the time in TV, in the radio, in our streets and sometimes in our homes. In film and TV things have changed with new filmmakers and screenwriters who are bold to tell those stories. Yeah, it’s a sad history, but it is what we have, we can’t hide it or change it. I am glad something very well done like NARCOS was made to the “world” thanks to NETFLIX. Because people can understand the stigma all the Colombians have thanks to Pablo Escobar. If you are a “gringo” who makes fun of a Colombian asking him for cocaine, that “joke” is for us a reference and a memory of blood, violence and lost. NOT FUNNY.… Expand

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PapaMcDeluxe

Nov 30, 2018

Absolutely brilliant. One of my favourite series. I´ve watched it four times and i don´t get tired of doing it

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everdun

Feb 7, 2016

Narcos is a intriguing and entertaining series. The show educates you on the Medellin cartel and it is a very interesting topic to learn about. I would recommend this show to all my friends and anyone looking for a great show to watch! It is by far my favorite show right now. Can't wait forNarcos is a intriguing and entertaining series. The show educates you on the Medellin cartel and it is a very interesting topic to learn about. I would recommend this show to all my friends and anyone looking for a great show to watch! It is by far my favorite show right now. Can't wait for the next season to come out!… Expand

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Jes1310

Nov 23, 2015

Great fun, great acting and I love the sort behind the scenes look of the Colombian drug industry. Really like that the dalogue is in spanish and English.

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Maeglin

Sep 11, 2015

I started watching this show as a documentary and even though it delivers on that part it is also a drama show that can really get you hooked. The voice-over is good and never irritating and even though I know Pablo is being played by a Brazilian I do not speak enough Spanish to notice hisI started watching this show as a documentary and even though it delivers on that part it is also a drama show that can really get you hooked. The voice-over is good and never irritating and even though I know Pablo is being played by a Brazilian I do not speak enough Spanish to notice his accent is off. The fact that they have a lot of Colombian actors who act really good and filmed most (if not all) in Colombia really adds to the atmosphere.

What also suprised me is that even though Pablo is a criminal and the show is filled with characters with their own agenda the show still managed to not make the characters one dimensional. Apart from the show being a real treat to watch it also made me realize I know very little about this part of recent history from Colombia and there have been many times I have been cringing about the things that have been done during that time.

Definitely the best show of 2015 so far for me.… Expand

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imthenoob

Sep 24, 2017

The cast did a great job portraying their real life counterparts. The show itself does a great job at re-telling the history behind Pablo and his rise to power. It was very entertaining to watch and I quickly grind watch it just to get to season 2.

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LeFede

Sep 15, 2015

This series is a cheap copy of a Colombian series called "El Patrón del mal". Narcos story line is so compressed that it became bad american action action non-stop action style.....booooooring....to add insult to injury Pablo speaks with a Brazilian accent, maybe in season 2 they can have anThis series is a cheap copy of a Colombian series called "El Patrón del mal". Narcos story line is so compressed that it became bad american action action non-stop action style.....booooooring....to add insult to injury Pablo speaks with a Brazilian accent, maybe in season 2 they can have an US embassador with a Russian accent, what a joke!… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

78
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 1, 2017
Season 2

76
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 2, 2016
Season 1

77
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
- tbd
  S1:E10. Despegue
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
- tbd
  S1:E9. La Catedral
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
- 9.0
  S1:E8. La Gran Mentira
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E7. You Will Cry Tears of Blood
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E6. Explosivos
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E5. There Will Be a Future
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E4. The Palace in Flames
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E3. The Men of Always
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
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  S1:E2. The Sword of Simon Bolivar
  Air Date: August 28, 2015
- 6.6
  S1:E1. Descenso
  Air Date: August 28, 2015