If you want an entertaining series... that show is OK.
however, for anyone 40 years old or older, they likely remember the hell that Escobar unleashed in Florida and Columbia and the Netflix show doesn't even touch on 5% of it. It doesn't touch on any of the truly insane shit that he did.
I vividly remember staring in awe at the TV watching the Palace of Justice siege in Columbia, live. He funded a guerilla group to attack the Supreme Court and kill a lot of judges etc on the condition that they burn all the evidence in the building. He then bribed a detachment of the army to attack the guerrillas, tipping them off to what they were doing... also with the condition that they destroy the building (and all evidence against him). On live TV you had military blasting the building to pieces with armored vehicles, with the building full of hostages. I think something like 1/2 the judges were killed. It was insane. The list of "no fucking way" events with this guy is so long, its really unreal. He killed the newspaper editor that was writing editorials about him and when the paper didn't stop, he blew up the building itself.
Feeling the victim, the guy declared war on his own nation - when the government passed the extradition treaty with the US. He literally declared war on the people of Columbia and started killing as many people as he could. He even offered at one point to pay off the countries national debt in exchange for immunity. Thats how much money he had.
He killed 1000s of police in a single years time. He bombed the DAI building (like FBI) and almost leveled it completely by filling a school bus full of dynamite and getting a homeless guy to drive it in front of the building. He assassinated the guy who was going to be the next President. He killed a shit ton of high ranking police/military that were hunting him.
Narcos doesn't really touch on the guerilla group he was aligned with who all turned on him and started murdering everyone associated with him. They formed Los Pepes along with a couple other drug lords/Cali Cartel. The US sent Delta Force to train local police to combat him and then all of the sudden, all of Escobar's accountants, attorneys, hitmen or whoever was associated with him started getting ambushed and killed using the same military tactics the police were taught at the time by Delta Force - causing the President to pull the Delta Force out with the exception of a surveillance team (the Center Spike team) as they realized that a guerilla group funded by other cartels was using the same tactics they were teaching police (the implication being they were police by day, Los Pepes by night). They started killing anyone that had any relationship whatsoever with Escobar - to flush him out. They left almost as many dead bodies behind as Escobar did.
That was how they finally flushed him out... he tried to fly his family to Germany, the US got Germany to send them back - the Columbian government took them into custody "for their own protection" and placed them in a hotel. They surrounded the hotel with police and security. Then as Escobar went batshit because he couldn't get his family out and viewed the government as holding them hostage and Los Pepes kept killing anyone that had anything to do with him, the Columbians shrewdly removed the police and security from the hotel, causing him to go into a massive flurry of sat phone calls - which allowed the surveillance teams dial in his location and kill him and his last driver.
there are two shows on Netflix which are true to the actual events as they occurred if you are interested at all in the actual history and how things played out.
The first is about Pablo Escobar - which is a long, very detailed account of his story, incorporating real news footage into the story. It's very good to watch.
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (TV Mini-Series 2012– ) - IMDb
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The second is about the Cali Cartel.
En la Boca del Lobo (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb
Also a true story and one few people know about. The Netflix one didn't even begin to cover a fraction of what this guy went through and what the Cali Cartel did. Jorge Salcedo was a real guy who was lured into the cartel to kill Escobar and they wouldn't let him leave. Killing Escobar at the time he was declaring war against the nation and killing 1000s of his own people was easily rationalized as something good to do. He became their most trusted guy. Then they wouldn't let him leave. He was behind the plot to bomb Escobars prison - purchasing a fighter jet in Miami and bombs from some corrupt air force officers in El Salvador. They actually made the attempt and failed. Years later, when they wouldn't let him leave the Cartel, he flipped and started feeding info to local DEA in exchange for immunity but they made him stick it out to the end until they were all in custody.
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Though they appear to be telenovelas, they aren't really. more action and not a lot of weepy drama. They are long but well worth watching for anyone who enjoys history and a true account of the events - and seeing the full scope of everything that happened in the order that it happened.
