Narcos - Season 3 (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Creators: Carlo Bernard, Chris Brancato, Doug Miro, Paul Eckstein
	Actors: Pedro Pascal (The Adjustment Bureau, Game of Thrones TV-series), Alberto Ammann, Damián Alcázar
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: November 2017, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: After the death of Pablo Escobar, his former allies of the cartel of Cali (Ammann, Alcázar) take the lead on world cocaine trafficking. DEA agent Javier Peña (Pascal) is back to hunt them down.
Review: The king is dead, long live the king(s)! After two memorable seasons, the Netflix TV-series Narcos is back for a new thrill. We get to follow the Cali cartel which has a very different way of doing business than the one of Medellin had. This impacts the pace of the season which has less violence and terrorism to show, and more search for legal ways to stop a cartel much better organized. For example they were spending a billion dollars a year for intelligence (can that be true?). This is reflected by a new character in that season which is the head of security. DEA agent Javier Peña is now operating alone but we see him supervising two new guys eager to get to work. I think I heard that he did not participate to the real events, and in general even though this season is still based on real events, I could feel that more liberty was taken with them, especially in the timing and coincidence between those events. The added dramatization makes the season even easier to watch than the two first ones in fact, except if you were looking for a more documentary style that it has lost. Apart from that, the style of the series has slightly evolved but it keeps on delivering what the audience liked: narration by Peña has replaced the one by Murphy, there is always tension at the US embassy and corruption at most levels of the Colombian government and Police, but still always a man with irreproachable integrity, and the characters are relatively complex except the son of one of the cartel leaders, no one can like him. In addition to the main characters that I all found very well played, I could note the short presence of Edward James Olmos (from the Battlestar Galactica TV-series) and Wayne Knight that I could recognize anywhere after having watched a hundred times Jurassic Park.
Rating: 6 /10