What a shameful end for Amado. Just very un-amado like. I saw victor coming. Walt being transferred out makes sense because he realized the meaninglessness of all this. The ending was mostly based on real life so it felt odd. The end to the narcos series... forever. It has been so fascinating to see the insides of drug cartels and how they conduct business. How all the moving parts are still human and where things can go wrong in a second. Narcos taught me a lot about life and I'm grateful for the show!
14 Reviews
While I understand while many people may not enjoy this season...
dannylee-780823 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Escobar, Felix, the Cali guys.... All thot they had more time.
Fella_shibby15 December 2021
I liked this particular episode more than the entire season only cos of Victor.
In the first episode I was wondering why the character of Victor.
The guy who played Victor looked a bit like Robert De Niro, specially the one from Taxi Driver as both characters are somehow troubled.
What I liked best was the way Don Neto was treated by Chapo. Neto thot he is some good advisor. Hahaha.
In the first episode I was wondering why the character of Victor.
The guy who played Victor looked a bit like Robert De Niro, specially the one from Taxi Driver as both characters are somehow troubled.
What I liked best was the way Don Neto was treated by Chapo. Neto thot he is some good advisor. Hahaha.
Satisfying, if a little empty.
RynWlsn26 November 2021
It felt as though they had only begun to scratch the surface on the Mexican Drug War by the final scene of this episode. For most who know about the Narcos of Mexico, this show was just getting started and still had a lot to ground. But as a three season piece about how things came to be how they are today, this is a perfectly acceptable final note, even if plenty of people will be yearning for the band to carry on playing.
It has it's high ups and low downs
afcardona16 November 2021
The last episode of the season is really good, and opens the whole plot about Chapo which is what I'm most excited about. The DEA role is so lame. I guess it's because they need some English speakers in there? Dunno.
Weak Ending
zaidabujoudeh3 January 2022
All this disappointment being expressed
silverton-379593 September 2023
So many reviews expressing disappointment are surprising to me. This 3rd season basically ends right before the wildfire that the cartel scene in Mexico entered after the economic crash and the exposure of the drug war's phoniness, and reviewers are complaining that they just don't get it. Nothin is wrapped up neatly as this season ends.
The character of General Rebollo said in Ep#9 that neither country wants to fight the war, they only want to give the impression of fighting a war. That seems very true to me. The drug war seems to have been orchestrated to show a bunch of criminals making huge fortunes in a vacuum without the involvement of any government actors in any of the countries in which the story was told.
The imprisonment of the few bosses who end up in prison reveal the obvious fact that none of them will be charged with actual crimes, since trials would reveal the roles played by the Mexican political and business rulers. What developed after the fall of the Juarez and Tijuana cartels was never actually revealed by the news media. Few people really heard anything true regarding what came to be and what actually exists in Mexico today.
If this is the final season of Narcos: Mexico, so be it, but there's still a story to be told.
The character of General Rebollo said in Ep#9 that neither country wants to fight the war, they only want to give the impression of fighting a war. That seems very true to me. The drug war seems to have been orchestrated to show a bunch of criminals making huge fortunes in a vacuum without the involvement of any government actors in any of the countries in which the story was told.
The imprisonment of the few bosses who end up in prison reveal the obvious fact that none of them will be charged with actual crimes, since trials would reveal the roles played by the Mexican political and business rulers. What developed after the fall of the Juarez and Tijuana cartels was never actually revealed by the news media. Few people really heard anything true regarding what came to be and what actually exists in Mexico today.
If this is the final season of Narcos: Mexico, so be it, but there's still a story to be told.
A season to attemp something new
Negrus_cl10 November 2021
By development all this side histories and forgetting about Narcos itself they failed to give us the accion, suspence and clever dramatization that other seasons shown. Also a lot of creativity around real characters and not real ones.
Its not a bad season, but misses the point of Narcos and turn it in a documentary about México and the systematic corruption.
Its not a bad season, but misses the point of Narcos and turn it in a documentary about México and the systematic corruption.
I hoped for better
Supermurph099 December 2021
Huge fan of all the previous series (watched each series at least 4-5 times) but this series was very poor. The female narration was bad but for me they had too many side stories going off and not enough of a central character. Each season before it had real depth in terms of the main protagonists but whilst Amado was great, the other component parts were weak.
I could watch any of the previous series again, but this isn't a series I see me revisiting.
I could watch any of the previous series again, but this isn't a series I see me revisiting.
The Final
sackofwhine25 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Overall, I have to agree that this season felt kind of shallow and anti-climactic. It doesn't even remotely come close to the devastating final episode of the original Narcos. Everything just kind of happened here, there was no buildup, no narration to tie it all together and to tell us what happened with these Narco crimebosses. Chapo and Majo, the Felix clan- they're just loose ends. If this was the supposed end of the Narcos franchise, then it's kind of a lethargic one. It felt kind of half-assed. Season 1 and 2 of Mexico had style, substance and an engaging dramaturgical evolution. There was a dynamic that tied it all together. I can't say this about this finale. But maybe that's the point, right? It all just goes on, there's no end in sight. I get it, I dig that.
But in order for it to have an impact, you need to sell that idea cinematically. It kind of just doesn't happen here.
But in order for it to have an impact, you need to sell that idea cinematically. It kind of just doesn't happen here.
Disappointing end to a pretty good season
oscarelliott812 November 2021
Every single story this season had an unsatisfying ending I understand they seem to be trying to focus on truth rather than their usual suspenseful dramatisations but at a certain point you have to take into account what made this show so popular in the first place. If you know anything about the story of chapo and what happened in Mexico after Amado died then you will be pretty shocked they decided to cut this season how they did leaving so much out for the sake of a 4 hour message about the inadequacy in Mexico's law enforcement. They've left enough material for literally 5/6 more seasons at this pace. I love Narcos but this whole season was much ado about nothing.
A so so finale to a great show.
MLam66680613 February 2022
A somewhat underwhelming finale to what was otherwise another excellent season. Saddened to see there will be no further seasons as there is still such a great story to be told. The DEA segment of the story is probably the weakest part but this show has introduced me to so many excellent South American actors I'd otherwise not have heard of.
Episode 310
bobcobb30116 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"Life in Wartime" wrapped up a lot of the stories, although not everything. We knew this was the end, but they did tease a few leftovers who could shape the show had it continued.
I wish we learned more about the Amado story and what happened. The idea of radical plastic surgery to get out of the country is wild, but they sort of quickly brushed over it.
Seeing Ramon finally go down was long overdue and I was glad to see that arrogant character meet his demise. But you have to admire the tenacity of him still dropping his signature f bombs all the way until his final few moments on this planet.
I wish we learned more about the Amado story and what happened. The idea of radical plastic surgery to get out of the country is wild, but they sort of quickly brushed over it.
Seeing Ramon finally go down was long overdue and I was glad to see that arrogant character meet his demise. But you have to admire the tenacity of him still dropping his signature f bombs all the way until his final few moments on this planet.
Worst season
agarwalvaibhav-178757 November 2021
Not the right way
jotafracchia16 November 2021
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A different season than what they had been doing throughout the series.
They have "try" to do it different, but you can see how those changes loses strength with each chapter, showing us characters that with the time on the screen they had, one could even know who's grandfather of whom, but it is not like that. They are very flat characters, boring at times, i can't remember someone yelling or someone smiling and laughing, they just stand at places and speak slow without any charism.. And all characters are like this, the antagonists, the protagonists, even the daughter of Benjamin, that we are aware of that she is sick, but we never had a chance to witness her ill, the girl just stands there and barely had a line.
They also present us parallel stories pretty interesting, but are meaningless to the plot of the series or just bad develop (I can't tell), for example we have the story of Victor Tapia trying to redeem himself for being a terrible cop, but it ends nowhere, and i could't care, i mean i never saw him really caring for redeem himself, i never saw him an emotion, a tear drop, even when he died, he just stood there with a poker face (Even knowing there is another psycho killer out, and his life's purpose is to find em', but he just go for: "It's not what you think", "if you are gonna do it, just do it"; and that's it, he died for no reason), so if he didn't care, why should we?.
Another thing, i don't have problem with slow pace movies and series, but previous Narcos seasons hve never been slow pace, they are actually fast, with action pack, thriller moments well made, here the show is slow, with few action moments, few gunshots, there's no really thriller moments. By the end it leaves us a flat emotional void, asking questions like: "Was this season worth watching?" "Will I watch another season?".
But the worst was how they destroyed good characters like Walt and James (DEA), and Amado who was a cool narco character in other seasons, in this one he is shown as an emo boy without charisma.
They leave a lot of content for Chapo for a next season, hopefully they work that one well.
They have "try" to do it different, but you can see how those changes loses strength with each chapter, showing us characters that with the time on the screen they had, one could even know who's grandfather of whom, but it is not like that. They are very flat characters, boring at times, i can't remember someone yelling or someone smiling and laughing, they just stand at places and speak slow without any charism.. And all characters are like this, the antagonists, the protagonists, even the daughter of Benjamin, that we are aware of that she is sick, but we never had a chance to witness her ill, the girl just stands there and barely had a line.
They also present us parallel stories pretty interesting, but are meaningless to the plot of the series or just bad develop (I can't tell), for example we have the story of Victor Tapia trying to redeem himself for being a terrible cop, but it ends nowhere, and i could't care, i mean i never saw him really caring for redeem himself, i never saw him an emotion, a tear drop, even when he died, he just stood there with a poker face (Even knowing there is another psycho killer out, and his life's purpose is to find em', but he just go for: "It's not what you think", "if you are gonna do it, just do it"; and that's it, he died for no reason), so if he didn't care, why should we?.
Another thing, i don't have problem with slow pace movies and series, but previous Narcos seasons hve never been slow pace, they are actually fast, with action pack, thriller moments well made, here the show is slow, with few action moments, few gunshots, there's no really thriller moments. By the end it leaves us a flat emotional void, asking questions like: "Was this season worth watching?" "Will I watch another season?".
But the worst was how they destroyed good characters like Walt and James (DEA), and Amado who was a cool narco character in other seasons, in this one he is shown as an emo boy without charisma.
They leave a lot of content for Chapo for a next season, hopefully they work that one well.
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