Narcos - Season 2

The first season was a tad better, because the rise is a nicer watch than the fall. And that's exactly the key difference between the two seasons. Wagner Moura was of course fantastic as Pablo, but he wasn’t alone, the series has a lot of characters that grow on you in different ways. Directorially confident and technically precise – this applies to both seasons. We’ll see what the gentlemen from Cali will bring now. (2019-10-12)

The hunt for Escobar continues! The second season is a bit more action-packed and uncompromising towards the characters, the gradual fall of the great Narco-baron was sad to watch, but still a very powerful, unique experience. I recommend it. The Communist Brothers are decent madmen and I'm curious about the Cali Cartel in the third season. 95%. (2017-09-07)

Season 2: For me, the first season was a bit more fun, with how Pablo made fun of everyone and mocked the system while sitting in "prison" full of roulette, champagne, and hookers. The second season is heading towards more realistic waters, drama is knocking on the door, and Pablo starts to feel depressed out of fear of what will happen next. Of course, the second season was excellent as well, I didn't miss anything, I just didn't inhale it as quickly and eagerly as the first one, because the pace simply slowed down and everyone knew how it would end. I'm not really into the third season, but I'll probably give it a go because it definitely doesn't have bad reviews, it's just the absence of Pablo that puts me off. Well, we'll see. (2018-09-11)

The second season doesn’t slow down and continues to uphold the high standard of the first. While in the first season we watched Escobar slowly but surely claw his way to the top, where he had no real competition, in the second we witness his downfall, as he gradually loses one loyal associate after another, his enemies grow immensely stronger, and it's clear how it will all end. What surprised me the most was the return of Colonel Carillo—his character was one of the best in the first season, but I didn’t expect his return at all. And of course, once he returned, he couldn’t stick around for long (his death at the hands of Escobar was one of the most emotional moments of both seasons). Up until this point, Escobar was still somewhat afloat, but then the real rollercoaster began. The penultimate episode was, for many, quite boring and meaningless, but that’s not true. Escobar’s personality was perfectly captured here, and it was amusing to see an episode where, instead of scheming and shootouts, you watch a gangster helping his father repair a fence and doing things that probably weren’t very familiar to him until then. The final episode was masterfully intense, and the ending only reinforced everything. This is a series that will stay in my head for a long time because it was created by true geniuses. I give it 96%. (2017-08-10)

I enjoyed the second season, too. I couldn't help but notice the difference in quality between its first and second half, though. The first half had everything I love about this series: atmosphere, action and tension. Episode 4 was the absolute best of the series so far, so I was really annoyed by how things slowed down in the last four episodes. There were long scenes with hardly any plot, obviously meant to set up some sort of sentimental mood, but it just didn't do it for me. (2018-02-07)