Narcos

2015–2017 · Crime, Drama · 3 seasons · ★ 8.1

Ended

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Synopsis of Narcos

In 1980s Colombia, Mateo Moreno, aka Cucaracha, a cocaine manufacturer who has fled Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship, looks for a partner to expand his business. He finds one in Pablo Escobar, a well-known smuggler from the Antioquia department. Together they start building bigger labs deep in the jungle. Meanwhile, DEA agent Steve Murphy arrives in Colombia with the job of investigating cocaine trafficking and helping to take down its main players. The story is told mostly from his point of view. Created by Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard, the series streams on Netflix and stars Pedro Pascal, Boyd Holbrook, and Wagner Moura.

«There's no business like blow business.»

3seasons

30episodes

51 minper episode

8.1audience scoreTMDB · 3,519 votes

8.7IMDb rating537,587 votes

Seasons of Narcos

Season 12015 · 10 ep. · ★ 8.0

Season 22016 · 10 ep. · ★ 8.1

Season 32017 · 10 ep. · ★ 7.8

Cast by Narcos

Pedro PascalJavier Peña30 episodes

Alberto AmmannPacho Herrera21 episodes

Wagner MouraPablo Escobar20 episodes

Boyd HolbrookSteve Murphy20 episodes

Joanna ChristieConnie Murphy20 episodes

Paulina GaitánTata Escobar20 episodes

Paulina GarcíaHermilda Gaviria15 episodes

Matias VarelaJorge Salcedo10 episodes

Damián AlcázarGilberto Rodríguez Orejuela10 episodes

Francisco DenisMiguel Rodríguez Orejuela10 episodes

Maurice CompteHoracio Carrillo10 episodes

Stephanie SigmanValeria Velez10 episodes

Pêpê RapazoteChepe Santacruz Londoño10 episodes

Arturo CastroDavid Rodriguez10 episodes

Michael Stahl-DavidChris Feistl10 episodes

Matt WhelanDaniel Van Ness10 episodes

Diego CatañoLa Quica10 episodes

Jorge A. JimenezPoison10 episodes

Juan Pablo RabaGustavo Gaviria10 episodes

Raúl MéndezCesar Gaviria10 episodes

Bruno BichirFernando Duque10 episodes

Luis GuzmánJosé Rodríguez Gacha10 episodes

Martina GarcíaMaritza10 episodes

Brett CullenArthur Crosby10 episodes

Andrea LondoMaria Salazar10 episodes

Manolo CardonaEduardo Sandoval10 episodes

Natalia JerezAura10 episodes

Carlos Aguilar10 episodes

Eric LangeBill Stechner9 episodes

Sebastián VegaHugo Martinez Jr.6 episodes

Javier CámaraGuillermo Pallomari6 episodes

Ana de la RegueraElisa Alvaro5 episodes

Raymond AblackStoddard5 episodes

Vera MercadoAna Gaviria5 episodes

José María YázpikAmado Carrillo Fuentes4 episodes

Gabriela de la GarzaDiana Turbay3 episodes

Lux PascalElias2 episodes

Pablo EscobarSelf (archive footage)2 episodes

Carolina AcevedoGabriela2 episodes

André MattosJorge Luis OchoaEpisode 1

Technical Details

Created by: Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard
Address: Andrés Baiz, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Fernando Coimbra, Gerardo Naranjo, Guillermo Navarro
Writing: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Chris Brancato, Andrew Black, Zachary Reiter
Music: Pedro Bromfman
Photography: Mauricio Vidal, Luis David Sansans
Production companies: Gaumont International Television
Network or Platform: Netflix
Country: United States
Original Language: English
Premiere: August 28, 2015
Last Episode: September 1, 2017 (3x10)
Status: Ended
Type: Fiction
Awards: Nominated for 3 Emmy Awards; 9 wins and 22 nominations in total.
Links: IMDb · TMDB · Official Website

Trivia about Narcos

Season one, which has ten episodes, had an estimated budget of about $25 million.

Director José Padilha also directed Elite Squad (2007) and its sequel from 2010, which became the highest-grossing film in Brazilian history.

The opening sequence begins with a narrator's voiceover that places magical realism in Colombia, the country where, according to the series, it was born.

The opening theme, "Tuyo," is a bolero written and composed for the series by Brazilian singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante.

Wagner Moura's Brazilian accent drew a lot of criticism for not fitting Escobar's Paisa background.

Rotten Tomatoes analyzed 50 reviews of season one and rated 78% of them positive.

A season that was planned to be filmed in Mexico about the Juárez Cartel was scrapped, and the idea ended up in the series Narcos: Mexico.

The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme in 2016.

Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish) · Wikidata