‘Narcos’ Follows Pablo Escobar’s Rise and Fall

10-episode Netflix series follows the brutal rise and fall of the Colombian cocaine kingpin.

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This TV series does an amazing job telling exactly how the cocaine drug industry started in South America - and the rise of Colombian kingping Carlos Escobar. We appreciate that it's super factual, and yes it's addicting.

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Since his death at age 44 in a 1993 shootout in the Colombian city of Medellín, Pablo Escobar has been the subject of numerous biographies, feature films, documentaries, TV series and a memoir by his son.

Now Netflix is betting viewers are up for another portrait of the billionaire cocaine king of Colombia.

On Aug. 28, it will release “Narcos,” a 10-episode series that aims to unpack hyperbole from reality in Escobar’s rise and fall. Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents, were technical consultants on the series, which is based on the years they spent on Escobar’s trail. Messrs. Murphy and Pena call Escobar the world’s first “narco-terrorist,” commanding an organization so lethal and well financed that it threatened an entire region.

The series represents another creative push by Netflix, which launched in Central and South America in 2011, kicking off a global rollout expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The streaming service is producing more original shows with settings, stories and cast members intended to resonate with foreign audiences. The company’s most ambitious effort on that front, last year’s big-budget period drama “Marco Polo,” flopped with critics, but earned a second-season renewal from Netflix.

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