Having recently watched and enjoyed the fourth
season of Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, on Netflix, I was interested in reading The
Hollywood Reporter’s Q&A with Narcos’ showrunner Eric Newman.
(Spoiler alert if you’ve not yet watched
Narcos: Mexico)
Similar to the previous seasons of Narcos, the story of Narcos: Mexico unfolded
under the guidance of an English-speaking narrator. This time, however, the
narrator was kept secret until the final scene, and the reveal of his identity
beckons more of the Narcos: Mexico story to be told.
The reset Narcos: Mexico —
the fourth season overall in the Narcos saga — featured a primarily
new cast when it traveled back to 1980s Mexico to show the birth of the
Guadalajara cartel over the course of 10 episodes (which launched on Netflix on
Nov. 16).
In order to trace the origins of the Mexican
drug war, the newest chapter in the cartel drama once again pitted a narco,
Guadalajara's Felix Gallardo (Diego Luna), against a DEA agent, Kiki Camarena
(Michael Pena). After building his empire — one
that included both Pablo Escobar (played by Wagner Moura) and
their Colombian rivals in Cali in a surprise crossover episode — Narcos: Mexico arrived to the unhappy ending the
narrator had warned about in the season's opening minutes: Camarena was
abducted, tortured and killed by Gallardo and his men.
"Kiki Camarena is the first
martyr in the drug war," showrunner Eric Newman tells The Hollywood Reporter of the much-documented true
story of Camarena, the undercover Mexican-American DEA agent who was abducted
in Guadalajara and killed in 1985. "The collision between [Kiki and Felix]
became so immediately clear as the best path to get to jumpstarting the Mexican
chapter of this story."
You can read the rest of the interview via
the below link:
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