Narcos Season 3 Episode 1 "Kingpin Strategy"

I decided to watch the newest season of Narcos, starting with episode 1 titled "The Kingpin Strategy." This episode was quite interesting because it shows that business does not stop even if the boss of all cartels is dead. When a leader goes down, two more comes back up and that is exactly what the case was with the Columbian cartels. Business never ceases to end. With the death of Pablo Escobar, you'd think that most of hot-shot cartels would just crumble, but that never happened. As a matter of fact, most of the cartels that rivaled Escobar simply flourished. Not only this, but they flourished so much that many of the cartels decided to keep the massive amount of money that they accumulated and decided to voluntarily go to jail in order to live freely after a couple of years.

What this shows me about life is that you must crush your competition and even then when the competition is crushed, you must move forward in life, all the while still continuously destroying competition. This episode also taught to never show mercy to the opposition. I came to this conclusion simply because after the death of Pablo Escobar, the rival cartels targeted the immediate family of Escobar to make sure that the competition will never show itself. I decided to attempt to implement this philosophy into my life. Whether I have to hurt anybody mentally, verbally, or physically; We have to do whatever it takes to rise to the top, just as the Columbian cartels did. They almost even infiltrated the political scene with multiple cartel members almost becoming Columbian politicians.

Overall I find this season to be something of great potential. Not only for Netflix, but for knowledge of criminal activity in multiple countries and how they affect the political climate of things. Continuing to watch the next couple of episodes I hope to gain some more knowledge that I can use in life, whether that may concern law enforcement and the processes that are initiated when criminal activity is active or whether it may be how criminals react to due process and the law when it is applied directly to them. I also hope to gain knowledge on how this effects immediate family because when one person goes down, it tends to have a huge on immediate family physically, and financially. Because if someone has died, the money that they would have gotten and given to their family members is no longer coming in. Based on the stories i have read online, most families involved i the cartel only relied on drug money so when that was gone, so was their luxurious lifestyle.

At the end of the day, I am in love with the show. Narcos is the only reason why I have netflix account and the only reason why I actually have a TV haha. It has taught me alot and it continues to teach me alot. I also have seen different type of angle shots within the show that we talked about in class. There are many stationary shots in the show. Stationary shots that catch the emotion in the characters face, leaving the audience to decipher what is going on in their minds. Very interesting show for understanding emotion because in the show there are times where you can be on the tip of your toes while the characters in the show seem relaxed, all because of the way they shoot the scenes and angles that are used.