Many months ago the fine folks on this website made a few Netflix suggestions which I wrote down on a piece of paper.
- Longmire was the first on the list and I watched the entire series. I really enjoyed that one.
- The next on the list was The Walking Dead. I am not quite halfway through that series but can't really get into it. I'm a bit surprised that people like it as much as they have. I haven't totally given up on it yet but something needs to happen to keep me interested or it's getting deleted from the queue.
- I had misplaced the piece of paper with the suggestions, but found it last week. The last suggestion I had written on it was the best one. It was a Netflix original called Narcos. I have just finished watching the first season of 10 episodes. The next season will come out in September. I am totally intrigued by the show. It is about Pablo Escobar and the drug trade in Columbia. I don't know how factual the details are, but I remember watching the news and hearing the names and places, but didn't really pay that much attention to it. In the show when they show actual clips of US Presidents speaking about the war on drugs, I remember those speeches, but the connection to what was really going on was not apparent to me at the time. Watching this you begin to understand that these Presidents knew a heck of a lot about what was going on. I suppose some of you folks that read the news magazines had a better understanding, but for me it was "news noise". It wasn't something that directly affected me, so it wasn't something I thought much about. This show provides context and connects me to things that were happening in my past that I paid too little attention to. I find the story amazing, hard to believe what was going on in Columbia and how far it went. Escobar and the drug cartels in Columbia controlled most of the cocaine market. It makes me wonder what the cocaine supply chain looks like today.
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