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Narcos · Season 3 · Netflix

Narcos Season 3

Narcos Season 3 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 10 episodes on Netflix from 1 September 2017.

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BollyMeter8.5/1097% on Rotten Tomatoes - the post-Escobar pivot to the Cali Cartel was received by critics as a confident reinvention; audiences were slightly cooler having lost the show's defining protagonist.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 3's 97% Tomatometer was the show's best critical score, and the reason was simple: the Cali Cartel, run by businessmen rather than gangsters, forced the show to become a corporate thriller. The Rodriguez Orejuela brothers operated in spreadsheets and boardrooms; the violence was subcontracted. Critics found this pivot genuinely unsettling - the second generation of the cocaine economy had professionalised. Pedro Pascal's Peña now leads, and his quieter charisma worked for the more procedural register. Audience attachment to the Escobar years meant the season played cooler with some viewers than critics anticipated, but the craftsmanship held.

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97%critics positive · n=338.7/10IMDb audience
  • “Narcos successfully reinvents itself after Escobar, delivering a corporate-crime thriller that's arguably more chilling than anything that came before.”
    Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)

Season Over Season

The post-Escobar gamble works - a different show in the same world, and critic scores actually went up.