The collapse of Gallardo’s empire stems directly from brash actions taken during his ascent - most directly, the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña), which sends agent Walt Breslin on a reckless mission of retribution. The second season of Narcos: Mexico wants to make a point about consequences, at least on a surface level. Even though it aims at being something more, Narcos: Mexico doesn’t seem to have ambitions far beyond those of the criminals it follows, pushing more product. Yet, despite the thrilling spectacle, exhaustion seeps in. The 10 episodes that premiere this week detail the dramatic implosion of Gallardo’s empire, a collapse that makes for extremely bingeable television. Narcos: Mexico is the story of Mexico’s first drug kingpin, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna). The show is too busy following the cocaine. If there was any point to all this, it’s become hard to keep track of. The first season detailed its rise the second chronicles its fall. Then a spinoff, Narcos: Mexico, tracked a parallel cartel in Central America. A third season followed another Colombian cartel. But while Escobar died, Narcos - a hit that premiered in 2015, when Netflix was rapidly building its streaming empire - needed to go on. The show built a compelling two-season crime thriller around his astonishing life and death. Narcos started as a show about Pablo Escobar, a real-life gangster who outdid even the most outrageous fictional ones.
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