1. Synopsis

2. Cast and characters
    Main characters  Recurring characters 

3. Episodes

4. Reception

5. References

6. External links

• Wagner Moura
• Boyd Holbrook
• Pedro Pascal
• Joanna Christie
• Juan Pablo Raba
• Diego Cataño
• Paulina Gaitán
• Paulina García
• Bruno Bichir
• Raúl Méndez
• Manolo Cardona
• Cristina Umaña
• Damián Alcázar
• Eric Lange

The second season of Narcos, an American crime thriller drama web television series produced and created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, follows the story of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who became a billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine, while also focusing on Escobar's interactions with drug lords, DEA agents, and various opposition entities.^[1][2]

It stars Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar – a Colombian drug lord and the leader of the Medellín Cartel, with Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, Joanna Christie, Juan Pablo Raba, Diego Cataño, Paulina Gaitán, Paulina García, Bruno Bichir, Raúl Méndez, Manolo Cardona, Cristina Umaña, Damián Alcázar and Eric Lange playing various real life based characters.

All 10 episodes of the season became available for streaming on Netflix on September 2, 2016, and were met with more favorable critical reviews than the first season, with critics particularly praising the performance of Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar. On September 6, 2016, Netflix renewed the series for a third and fourth season.^[3]

Synopsis

Season 2 begins where Season 1 ended. Some soldiers find Escobar and his entourage right outside the perimeter of La Catedral, but are too petrified of Escobar to make an arrest. The US sends a new ambassador who brings the CIA into play. At first, there is little change for Escobar as he adjusts to life outside La Catedral since he still has the loyalty of his cartel. However, his control starts to slip since he needs a lot of time and resources to hide from the government. He uses several tricks to avoid being caught; namely traveling undetected by hiring Limón, a pimp and taxi driver, who in turn hires his childhood friend Maritza to sit in the backseat as a decoy while Escobar hid in the trunk, and having young look-outs report the Search Bloc's attempts to find him. However, as the tide starts to change, Limón and Maritza work against Pablo and attempt to have him arrested by the police and the DEA by having Maritza go to Javier Peña's fiancée's house with intel on Escobar.

In the meantime, the Cali Cartel forms an alliance with the right-wing Castaño brothers, Don Berna, and Judy Moncada, whose husband Kiko was murdered by Escobar in Season 1. Judy vows to have revenge against Escobar after he kills her brother Jaime. In a meeting with the Cali Cartel leaders, Judy reluctantly gives the location of Escobar's drug labs to the Search Bloc, resulting in the arrest of multiple cartel members. Enraged, Escobar ambushes a convoy, killing nearly all of the police officers in attendence. Among the dead was the leader of the Search Bloc, Colonel Horacio Carrillo, who had killed Escobar's cousin Gustavo and tracked Escobar for years. Hugo Martínez "Flaco" becomes Carrillo's replacement, who continues the anti-drug war that Carrillo left. Later we find out that Limón was working both sides, he sold information to Peña on Pablo's orders and tricked Maritza about the ambush.

The Colombian police and Escobar engage in massive battles, resulting in high tension and unrest in Colombia. Agent Peña starts working with the vigilante death squad "Los Pepes" — who work for the Castaño brothers and, in effect, the Cali Cartel who later kill Valeria Velez and Escobar's lawyer Fernando Duque. After discovering the Cali Cartel is behind all the attacks, Pablo decides to go to war with the Cali Cartel by bombing their goods around Colombia. At Gilberto's daughter's wedding, one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel, Pablo sets off a bomb during the reception, injuring several people. But, Gilberto, his daughter and his companions survive the attack. Angered at Escobar's merciless attack, Gilberto orders to his men to kill all the remaining men who work for Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel and has Los Pepes follow Pablo's mother Hermilda from church and attack the Escobar family in their home, killing Tata's brother Carlos. Devastated, Escobar attempts to smuggle his family to Germany, but Steve Murphy follows the family and has the German customs deport Hermilda, Tata, and her children to Colombia. Enraged, Pablo Escobar places bomb outside a shopping mall near the Presidential Palace in Bogotá, killing hundreds, most of which are children. The people quickly turn against Pablo and the Columbian citizens call for the downfall of Pablo's cartel empire. By this point, a total war had begun between Escobar's Medellín Cartel and Gilberto's Cali Cartel.

The Cali Cartel meet with León (Escobar's associate from Season 1), who agrees to go into business with them. He is later killed when he is of no use to Cali. Judy plans to seize control of the drug trade and give up her allies to the police, but is betrayed by Berna and the Cali Cartel, so she flees Colombia and becomes an informant for the C.I.A.

Little by little, all of Escobar's men are hunted down and killed. After La Quica and Blackie are caught by the Search Bloc, Escobar goes on the run with Limón. They briefly stay with Abel, Escobar's estranged father. Abel tells Escobar how ashamed he is of his life of crime, so Escobar and Limón leave. In search of money, Limón steals Maritza's earnings and kills her when she threatens to turn him in for a reward. Pablo and Limón return to Medellin and hide in a safehouse where he celebrates his 44th birthday. When Pablo tries to make contact with his family, the DEA and military track him down via radio triangulation and corner Pablo on the rooftops. In the ensuing chase, Limón is shot as he exits through a window and Pablo is hit multiple times; though Pablo's injuries are not life-threatening, Trujillo (who survived Carrillo's convoy ambush) executes him with a shot to the head. Hermilda is devastated at her son's death and Tata meets with the Cali Cartel in a desperate attempt to leave the country. Peña returns to the U.S. and is asked to provide intel against the Cali Cartel.

Cast and characters

Main characters

• Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar – a Colombian drug lord and the leader of the Medellín Cartel
• Boyd Holbrook as Steve Murphy – a DEA agent tasked with bringing down Escobar^[4]
• Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña – a DEA agent, who is on Murphy's task force
• Joanna Christie as Connie Murphy^[5] – Steve's wife, a nurse who works in the local hospital
• Diego Cataño as Juan Diego "La Quica" Díaz – an assassin routinely hired by the Medellín, based on Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera
• Paulina Gaitán as Tata Escobar – Escobar's wife, based on María Henao
• Paulina García as Hermilda Gaviria – Escobar's mother, a former Colombian schoolteacher
• Bruno Bichir as Fernando Duque – a Colombian lawyer who represents Pablo Escobar, acting as his liaison with the Colombian government
• Raúl Méndez as César Gaviria – a Colombian economist and politician and the 28th President of Colombia
• Manolo Cardona as Eduardo Sandoval – the Vice Minister of Justice in President Gaviria's administration^[6]
• Cristina Umaña as Judy Moncada – a former leader in the Medellín Cartel who, after Escobar murdered her husband Kiko, led a breakaway cartel and allied with the Cali Cartel and Los Pepes; she is based on the real-life Dolly Moncada^[7]
• Alberto Ammann as Hélmer "Pacho" Herrera – a Colombian drug lord and high-ranking member of the Cali Cartel
• Damián Alcázar as Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela – the Leader of the Cali Cartel and one of Pablo Escobar's primary rivals
• Eric Lange as Bill Stechner – the CIA Station Chief in Colombia
• Juan Pablo Shuk as Colonel Hugo Martínez – Carrillo's successor as the commander of Search Bloc

Recurring characters

• Stephanie Sigman as Valeria Vélez – a Colombian journalist who also serves as Pablo Escobar's mistress, based on Virginia Vallejo^[8][9]
• Maurice Compte as Horacio Carrillo – a Colombian police chief, based on Colonel Hugo Martínez^[10][11]
• Julián Díaz as El Negro or "Blackie" (né Nelson Hernández) – a member of the Medellín Cartel, who is frequently seen by Escobar's side
• Juan Sebastián Calero as Navegante – a violent associate of the Cali Cartel who works as their top henchman
• Jon-Michael Ecker as El León or "The Lion" – a childhood friend of Escobar's who becomes his first drug smuggler into Miami and subsequently runs Escobar's Miami operations
• Leynar Gómez as Limón – a pimp and taxi driver from Medellín who becomes one of Escobar's sicarios, based on Alvaro de Jesús Agudelo (a.k.a. "El Limón")
• Martina García as Maritza – an old friend of Limon's roped into unwittingly helping Escobar
• Brett Cullen as Ambassador Arthur Crosby – A former Navy officer sent as US Ambassador to Colombia by George H. W. Bush in 1992, replacing Noonan
• Germán Jaramillo as Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's Attorney General and vehement critic of President Gaviria's drug policy
• Alfredo Castro as Abel Escobar, Pablo's father

Episodes

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Reception

The second season of Narcos received more favorable reviews than the first with critics particularly praising the performance of Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 90% positive: "Narcos sophomore season manages to elevate the stakes to a gut-wrenching degree in what continues to be a magnificent account of Pablo Escobar's life."^[12] On Metacritic, Season 2 holds a score of 76 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[13] IGN gave the second season a score of 7.4 out of 10 saying it "Good" and reads "It may go overboard with its love of Pablo Escobar, but I can't truly fault the show for taking advantage of its best performer and character – or for scrambling to find an emotional core on a show that can feel rather clinical."^[14]

Season two received generally positive reviews from many media outlets. Joshua Alston of The A.V. Club lauded the performance of Moura's and said, "While the show never soft-pedals the havoc Escobar created, it makes him surprisingly sympathetic, thanks in part to Moura’s shrewd, affecting performance."^[15] Mark A. Perigard of Boston Herald said, "Moura’s performance anchors this show."^[16] Critic Neil Genzlinger of New York Times said, "Mr. Moura is inscrutably brilliant at the center of it all."^[17] Writing for IndieWire, Liz Shannon Miller said, "The show has figured out how to balance its ostensible heroes. The buddy cop energy between Peña and Murphy was one of Season 2’s most enjoyable side dishes--enough to make one hope for more."^[18] The New York Post{{'}}s, Robert Rorke said, "Without [Escobar] there’s a gaping hole. So allow yourself to be mesmerized and appalled at one of the most outrageous true crime dramas ever filmed."^[19] Todd VanDerWerff of Vox said, "The second season of Narcos, Netflix’s historical drama about drug lord Pablo Escobar and the law enforcement officers who worked to bring him down, is a marked improvement over the first."^[20]

References

External links

• {{official website|https://www.netflix.com/title/80025172}}
• {{IMDb title|2707408}}

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