Narcos: Mexico
‘Griselda’ Boss on Sofía Vergara’s Dramatic Transformation: “She Does Terrible Things”
While Sofía Vergara was delighting millions of viewers for more than a decade as Gloria Pritchett on Modern Family, she was thinking about Griselda Blanco. For 15 years, Vergara pored over the life of the woman known as the cocaine trade pioneer — who also earned the nicknames “The Godmother” and “The Black Widow” — […]
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Sofia Vergara Transforms Into the Godmother in ‘Griselda’ Teaser Trailer
Sofia Vergara is the Godmother. The actress most known for her long-running role on Modern Family is making her debut in a dramatic turn as Griselda Blanco, the Colombian “Godmother” who created one of the most profitable cartels in history. Starring and executive produced by Vergara, the six-episode limited series — which now has a […]
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‘Lost in the Night’ Review: Amat Escalante’s Class-Inequality Mystery Has Potent Elements Without Much Genre Heat
The unsolved disappearance of an anti-mining activist in small-town Central Mexico prompts her son to gain insider access to a famous local family he suspects may be involved.
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Next Big Thing: Mariel Molino’s Journey From Telenovelas to Fronting a New Freeform Thriller
When Mariel Molino was a little girl, all she wanted was to be on the Disney Channel. “The American dream, for me, was Hannah Montana,” says the Mexican American actress. “I even wanted my dad to be Billy Ray Cyrus, but he had a really thick accent, so I wasn’t sure how that would work.” […]
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2022 International Emmy Nominations: Netflix Dominates Best Drama Competition
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced its nominees for the 2022 International Emmy Awards, which will be presented Nov. 21 in New York City. In the drama series competition, there are nominations for Netflix and Gaumont Television’s French mystery thriller Lupin and the American-Mexican crime series Narcos: Mexico, as they contend […]
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Mexico Captures Drug Lord Rafael Caro Quintero, Portrayed on ‘Narcos: Mexico’
Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, Mexico’s Navy said. Caro Quintero was arrested after a search dog named “Max” found him hiding […]
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‘Narcos: Mexico’ Star on Mysterious Death in Series Finale: “I Believe He Got Away With It”
[This story contains spoilers for the third season of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico.] José María Yazpik had his own opinion about Amado Carillo Fuentes’ fate going into Narcos: Mexico. The actor, who grew up in Tijuana, was familiar with the real-life narco known as “Lord of the Skies” before playing him for four seasons on the […]
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‘Narcos: Mexico’ Boss Explains Cyclical Series Finale: The Ending Could Never Be “Neat and Tidy”
[This story contains spoilers to the third and final season of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico.] The final season of Narcos: Mexico delivered on a promise made at the very beginning: This story doesn’t have a happy ending. In fact, it doesn’t have an ending at all. After three seasons of Narcos tracking the origin of cocaine […]
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Why ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Is Ending With Season 3
After five seasons and two decades of story featuring a revolving door of notorious drug kingpins, Narcos is ending its run. The hit Netflix franchise, which reset itself with Narcos: Mexico in 2018, had moved from 1990s Colombia to Mexico to track the next threat in the global drug war following the death of Pablo Escobar […]
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Sofia Vergara to Star in ‘Griselda’ Limited Series at Netflix From ‘Narcos’ Team
Sofia Vergara is readying to play the Black Widow. In her first role since wrapping Modern Family, Vergara will be making a dramatic turn to play Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug lord widely known as the “Black Widow,” for a six-episode limited series at Netflix titled Griselda. Vergara will also executive produce. Griselda is the […]
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Netflix’s New Releases Coming in November 2021
Black Western The Harder They Fall, Halle Berry’s Bruised and the final season of Narcos: Mexico are among the highly anticipated movie and TV titles set to release on Netflix in November. With an all-star cast including Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo and LaKeith Stanfield, the Jeymes Samuel-directed and Jay-Z-produced […]
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‘Narcos: Mexico’ Makes Way for the Next Generation in Final Season Trailer
There’s a new generation of kingpins in Narcos: Mexico. The third and final season of the Narcos spinoff series dropped its trailer on Monday. And the footage, as promised by the ending of season two, makes way for the emerging bosses from the Sinaloa, Tijuana and Juárez cartels to step up in place of departing […]
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