Going back to "a time when cocaine was currency, the lines between good and evil got a little blurry", or so says the tagline for brand new Netflix original series Narcos, coming to the streaming service from August 28.
The synopsis for the series reads: "Narcos chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the infamous drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. Its gritty storytelling details the many, often-conflicting forces - legal, political, police, military and civilian - that clash in the effort to control cocaine, one of the world's most valuable commodities."
Creator and executive producer José Padilha is re-partnered with acclaimed Brazilian actor Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar in the series, with Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal also stepping into roles as real-life DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña respectively.
Colombia's Juan Pablo Raba and Manolo Cardona, Britain's Joanna Christie, Mexico's Stephanie Sigman and Brazil's André Mattos are all also starring in the show, as well as Puerto Rican actor Luis Guzman and Mexico's Ana de la Reguera.
Eric Newman, Doug Miro, Carlos Bernard and Chris Brancato all also serve as executive producers on the series, with production by Gaumont International Television for Netflix.
All ten (10) episodes of Narcos will premiere on August 28 at 12:01am PST, 8.01am BST, 9.01 am CET, exclusively on Netflix.
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