It seems pretty silly to be reviewing individual episodes of this series but that's how it's structured here on IMDb. Overall the series does a fairly good job of reconciling a detailed exposition of Escobar's career with the requirements of a television drama. The decision to have most of the dialogue in Spanish is commendable even if the notion of the principal DEA agent failing to learn the language over many years is preposterous - even from someone working for one of the notoriously chauvinistic US agencies.
What puzzles me is just why the series ends where it does - about three years before Escobar's extra-legal execution? This series covers all but the last phase of his life, which was mostly spent in hiding, moving constantly to avoid arrest or assassination and it seems unlikely that an entire series could be cobbled together out of this comparatively short period.
Of course these last years featured an equally dark phase where "Los Pepes" ("people persecuted by Escobar") engaged in a campaign of murder and terrorism almost exactly equivalent to that waged by the Medellin cartel upon the Colombian state. And of course "Los Pepes" was actually a death squad comprising members of the Search Bloc, National Police and Army in an informal alliance with the Cali cartel and associated cocaine exporters. It's also generally accepted that this campaign was extensively assisted by US assets - including, obviously, the DEA.
Quite how this phase of the war, almost morally equivalent to Escobar's activities, could be handled in a TV drama without causing considerable annoyance in some quarters. My own feeling is that this is why the series ends here and that a concluding series is most unlikely.
Incidentally, by way of footnote, no-one seems to know where Carlos Lehder has disappeared to. He should be permanently immured in the depths of a US "Supermax" penitentiary - however it now seems that he's enjoying his retirement under some sort of witness protection program having negotiated his release in return for useful information (about Noriega?)
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