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Narcos: Mexico is the crime drama series that became a spin-off series of the original Narcos series. It was intended to be the continuing fourth season of Narcos but became a companion series. While the parent series centered on the establishment of Colombia’s illegal drug trade the spin-off follows the development of Mexico’s illegal drug trade instead. It explores the Mexican drug war and its origins.
Narcos: Mexico currently has three seasons with 10 episodes each. Here’s what you need to know about the future of the show:
What Is The Premise Of Narcos: Mexico?
The series explores the origins of the modern drug war in Mexico by going back to its roots. Beginning with the traffickers at the time, who were still disorganized and how they grew as a disorganized confederation of independent growers and dealers. The series starts off in the 1980s, as Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo takes the helm of the Guadalajara Cartel, unifying traffickers to build an empire. Just then DEA agent Kiki Camarena moves his wife and young son from California to Guadalajara to take on a new post. He soon learns that his assignment is more challenging than he imagined. (Spoilers ahead)
There is a tragic turn of events as Camarena is murdered by the cartel. DEA agent Walt Breslin then brings in his squad as they try to gain intelligence on Gallardo and corner the druglord. At the end of the second season, Gallardo was jailed. In the fourth season, we saw how he was succeeded by the other bosses.
Will There Be Narcos: Mexico Season 4?
Unfortunately, there will not be another season of Narcos: Mexico which concluded in November 2021. “I saw this season as an origin story of the modern world that we live in,” creator Carlo Bernard explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “For me, it felt like bringing the show up to that spot where we now recognize, for better or for worse, made sense as a place to stop it. The show has been able to lift the curtains and show you how this thing began, and how it evolved. Not to say that other stories wouldn’t be compelling going forward. But to me, stopping at the moment where we had delivered the world that we now live in today made sense, thematically and narratively.”
He also added that they didn’t “want to repeat ourselves, ever” so a fourth season of Narcos: Mexico is unlikely to happen. On the other hand, as this three-season series came into existence as the spin-off of Narcos, perhaps there will be another project of a similar nature.
In fact, Netflix recently released a show about Griselda Blanco, infamously known as the Black Widow, a Colombian drug lady of the Medellín Cartel who took part in the cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. Sofia Vergara plays the lead role. However, it is not a spin-off of Narcos since it will have nothing to do with the original series.
“Griselda Blanco has long been a passion project for Sofia and we are grateful that she and her partners at LatinWe have chosen us to help her tell that story,” Eric Newman, who was an executive producer for Narcos, told Variety. “Sofia is a brilliant talent and her passion combined with a fantastic story from Doug and Ingrid, and the amazing Andrés Baiz at the directing helm, means we have a very exciting series to share with audiences.”
