On the recommends here we started Narcos, it's entertaining but the dialogue is stilted -- the writing is not great. Too much reliance on narration -- a calling card of drug movies used with varying success -- ie Goodfellas without narration wouldn't have been Goodfellas, it added so much to the movie -- but poorly written narration intercut with poor dialogue makes Narcos kind of clunky. Anyway it's only 10 episodes and first episodes of any series are almost always kind of clunky, so we will keep watching and perhaps it will improve. It's more than decent but I'm not yet totally sold as there have been so many treatments of the subject that the bar is set pretty high. I have watched parts of the Escobar telenovela and I think the actor in that was a better Escobar, though the telenovela format is a bit much for me and the 100+ episodes mean a big commitment so I've only got about 5 episodes in on that.
