“You can examine season certainly one of Narcos: Mexico as consolidation of power, and season two as the erosion of it — and then what is available in its place is chaos,” says Eric Newman, executive manufacturer and showrunner of the Netflix cartel series.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter approximately the second season of Narcos: Mexico (which released Feb. 13), Newman paints a image of what comes next inside the Mexican drug struggle after the final scene, which featured this saga’s starring narco, Felix Gallardo (Diego Luna), and DEA agent, Walt Breslin (Scoot McNairy), coming face-to-face for the first time in two seasons.
During their conversation — which takes location with Gallardo subsequently at the back of bars and Walt defeated after America’s failed Operation Leyenda — Gallardo warns Walt that his exit from the game, and the dissipation of his organized plaza system, will most effective usher inside the subsequent wave of cartels who will war with every other for power. “At the stop of season , we come to be untethered and we are hurtling out of manipulate, and wherein it leads is our noticeably bloody present,” explains Newman of the very last scene and what it sets up for the future.
Though Narcos: Mexico has but to be renewed for a third season, Newman (who has an overall cope with the streaming giant) says he has a clear concept of in which he wishes the story to retain to pass, as is evidenced through the finale. After re-putting Narcos’ Colombian-set story over to Mexico last year, Newman targeted these seasons on the upward thrust and fall of Luna’s Felix Gallardo, the Godfather of the Guadalajara cartel, whose decision to abduct and homicide DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña) forever changed the relationship among Mexico and the United States inside the failed warfare on drugs.
By the stop of season two, Gallardo has lost manage and is at the back of bars, and the growing bosses from the Sinaloa, Tijuana and Juarez cartels are stepping up in his area.
Below, in a chat with THR, Newman digs into America’s failure to seek justice for Kiki with Operation Leyenda to hint the missteps being made on each sides of the border still (“It’s about the futility of trying to address the drug war by way of attacking the deliver and ignoring the demand,” he says) and explains why there is sufficient story inside the Mexican saga to preserve Narcos (now in its 5th season overall) going for many years to come.
Unfortunately, it could move forever. By the time we have been to trap up with the present, it would now not be the present. It might be unhappy chapters of a continuing story that would end up the past. By the time we’d get to 2020, we might have a lot new material that could have regenerated and we may want to simply keep going till it or we expire.
A lot of human beings claimed they had been walking it, the efforts differed in terms of what the mission mandate became, and we also discovered that the outcome became murky at best and, in lots of cases, just outright disappointing. And in order we had approached it — due to the fact we failed to realize much approximately it — we were hoping, with any luck as the audience became hoping, that there become a few justice here. And we had been frustrated to analyze there become by no means any real justice.
Very few of the actual guilty parties had been punished [Gallardo is currently serving a 37-year prison sentence for the death of Camarena] and people that had been have been part of a political barter, as a substitute than real justice.
So we came up with the concept of essentially taking a character who became a composite of all those characters, however who approached it with some hope that we could get to the lowest of it if we took our gloves off and fought as grimy as they regarded to be fighting. And then to look that person be disappointed seemed like a quite powerful way to inform the tale.