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Narcos Season 2

Name: Narcos Season 2 review: BollyAI verdict
Item: Narcos Season 2
Rating: 8.9
Author: BollyAI

Narcos Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.9/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 2 September 2016.

MUST-WATCH

BollyMeter8.9/1093% on Rotten Tomatoes critics; the season covering Escobar's final months and death is read by most critics as the show's dramatic peak - tighter, more tragic, and better calibrated than S1.

Updated 8 June 2026

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 is the one most critics recommend if pressed - it covers Escobar's flight from La Catedral to his death on a Medellín rooftop in December 1993 and benefits from the accumulated weight of Season 1's worldbuilding. The 93% RT score reflects a critical consensus that Moura's Escobar reaches his dramatic ceiling here: trapped, paranoid, still dangerous but now mortal. The Los Pepes plotline introduced a vigilante counter-force that complicated the show's moral geography in productive ways. Critics singled out the final two episodes as among the best hours in Netflix's original drama catalogue at the time. The bilingual script remains rigorous.

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93%critics positive · n=288.7/10IMDb audience

“Season 2 is Narcos at its most viscerally compelling - the Escobar endgame is harrowing and operatic in equal measure.”
Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)

Season Over Season

Peak Narcos - the Escobar arc reaches its logical, historically inevitable conclusion, and the show earns every frame of it.