Again, SPOILERT ALERT!
Think a season 3 would be possible?
I mean, the show is called "Narcos", not "Escobar". Escobar is dead, but there are lots of narcos left to deal with.
Do you think now that Escobar is dead they will move focus to the Cali cartel as the bad guys, or just close the whole book?
Did you saw Pena last scene?
Right? I keep seeing frantic replies about what may happen - did anyone actually watch the finale? Pena's final scene all but confirms what direction season three will go in.
shareExactly. The show obviously ended by setting itself up for a third season focusing on Peña and the fall of the Cali cartel, not to mention the creators have stated in interviews that the plan from the start was to follow the Medellin cartel to the Cali cartel to the Mexican cartels, hence the name of the show. So, yeah, it's kind of odd that so many people here think the series is over.
shareYou mean we will get a season about El Chapo? Sweet.
shareHopefully. It should go down something like this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2707408/board/thread/261147081
shareToo many seasons. They'll condense the rest of the 90's and the 2000's like they did with with the first two seasons. Season 2 didn't cover as much time as Season 1 because they were building up to Escobar's death. Season 1 was about the rise of Escobar until the peak of his powers and ended with the beginning of his decline. I think the Cali Cartel can be covered in a single season then we would have the Mexicans by season 4. Mexican Drug War would be going on by season 5, unless they fit it in season 4.
I am sure they can wrap this up by 6 or 7.
Too many seasons. They'll condense the rest of the 90's and the 2000's like they did with with the first two seasons. Season 2 didn't cover as much time as Season 1 because they were building up to Escobar's death.
Wagner Moura: I knew Pablo was going to die at some point, right? In the first season, we cover 15 years of his life. It’s a very epic season in the sense that it tries to explain how the drug trade works and covers 15 years of all that. From the day Pablo escapes from La Catedral, to the day he dies, it’s less than 1 year.
Eric Newman: His life is a lot of story. We always envisioned it as we needed 2 seasons to tell that story properly. Other stories might be a season and then others might be 5 seasons, you never know.
Jose Padilha: It’s a cool thing about the media of cinema. Tarkovsky said it’s his culture in time — because you play with time. You can make time go real fast, you can make time go real slow and the audience doesn’t even notice it. You can watch the first season and never think that it’s 15 years. Watch the second season and never think it’s so short because you’re in it. You’re in the time frame that the show poses for you. Now, we have a lot of ground to cover with the history of narco trafficking.
"5 seasons" on a story seems like an exaggeration. Anyway, look forward when they get to the Mexican Cartels however long it takes.
"5 seasons" on a story seems like an exaggeration. Anyway, look forward when they get to the Mexican Cartels however long it takes.
You seem to know a lot about this stuff. Murphy and Pena both had long careers with the DEA and have retired fairly recently. Were they involved with going after the Mexican Cartels? I think they should remain characters in the show for consistency. It would be interesting for Pena since I believe he is of Mexican heritage.
shareIt's certainly a subject I'm very passionate about and very interested in and have been studying and researching for years. As for Murphy and Peña being involved in going after the Mexican cartels, I'm not sure. I would say the answer is likely no, as once these guys close a case as big and as tolling as Escobar's, they tend to settle for a desk. I'm not even sure how accurate Peña's implied involvement in taking down the Cali cartel is as the season 2 finale leads us to believe. However, I haven't done much research into the Cali cartel, as their reign never seemed all that impactful in their brief years on top, so there may very well be some interesting stories there for this show to tell.
shareSeason 3 will be about the Cali cartel, and season 4 and on will move on to the Mexican cartels.
shareYeah, I was surfing around Wikipedia and with the death of Escobar and the Medellin cartel falling created Cali prominence. Their fall and split brought rise to the Norte del Valle cartel. We are only in the early 90s in 'Narcos'...they can go all the way up to 2012 telling the story of Colombian cartels on the same arc.
shareThe creators already stated that they are moving on to the Mexican cartels after the Cali cartel. By the time the Cali cartel fell, the illegal drug trade was controlled by the Mexican cartels, so making a season about the Norte del Valle cartel wouldn't make much sense as the Colombians had pretty much just become cocaine growers for the Mexican cartels at that point.
shareThat's good news! do you have a link by any chance?
shareI do, and I have to give credit to the poster MontyD for posting the link on this board: http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/narcos-season-2-pablo-escobar-dead-wagner-moura-eric-newman-jose-padilha-spoilers-1201722771/
shareThanks!
shareNot sure how the series will survive without Pablo Escobar, especially after godlike acting from Wagner Moura. We'll see. It won't feel the same though.
shareIt just sucks that Pena probably wont be involved since he moved back to the states after Medellin.
This is one time where i wish the show would deviate from history because Pena is such a good character and Pescal is such a good actor.