Not sure if "repetitive" is the right word here but for this particular episode, I feel like the plot has not progressed much at all. A weird "filler" episode, if you will. Perhaps they were trying to stretch it to 10 episodes and resulted in this. It doesn't mean that it was a bad episode, but I just got a little disinterested in the middle.
3 Reviews
Where are the "good guys"?
silverton-379594 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
So, Operation Leyenda was launched over the torture and murder of a DEA agent. Now that it's shut down, Walt eventually goes to Tijuana to participate in a task force that is supposedly aimed at getting everyone involved in the murder of the Cardinal.
What do the "good guys" do? They torture a young guy who is only on the periphery of the organization that killed the Cardinal, getting his brother murdered and making him a target of the killers as well. If these are the "good guys", the what's the difference between them and the bad guys?
During all of this, the story is making some of the narcotrafficantes into sympathetic characters. Chapo is presented as somewhat uninvolved in the more grisly murders that are being done by all of the cartels, and Amado is painted as somewhat of a heroic figure.
The viewer is left to figure out, on his own,whether anyone involved is good. This obviously isn't a story of good vs bad. It is, though, a story about power; who has it and knows they have it, and those who have it without realizing. Amado has a lot of power as Hank's source of US dollars. He realizes to late that he should have moved to dethrone Hank as soon as Hank came around claiming that Amado had no input into their joint business.
Amado has the fleet of planes that can carry his product without Hank's airline. All he needed from Hank was influence with the government and the wealthy pirates who control the government. Hank's influence is fragile and is based completely on US dollars and gifts of Mexico's national holdings to his corrupt friends.
Hank's only source of large amounts of US dollars is Amado's smuggling operation. In Amado's place, Felix would have moved against Hank and shown him as incompetent during the lead-in to the NAFTA agreement, because the real control and profiteering was always tipped in favor of US interests and international banks with Mexico as a hapless junior partner whose profiteering depended on destruction of Mexico's economy.
Felix would have gotten Hank dethroned by his own partners, if Felix could have resisted the urge to make himself an emperor of sorts. Amado is too late to the game to do more than extract some of his own wealth before Hanks takes it all.
What do the "good guys" do? They torture a young guy who is only on the periphery of the organization that killed the Cardinal, getting his brother murdered and making him a target of the killers as well. If these are the "good guys", the what's the difference between them and the bad guys?
During all of this, the story is making some of the narcotrafficantes into sympathetic characters. Chapo is presented as somewhat uninvolved in the more grisly murders that are being done by all of the cartels, and Amado is painted as somewhat of a heroic figure.
The viewer is left to figure out, on his own,whether anyone involved is good. This obviously isn't a story of good vs bad. It is, though, a story about power; who has it and knows they have it, and those who have it without realizing. Amado has a lot of power as Hank's source of US dollars. He realizes to late that he should have moved to dethrone Hank as soon as Hank came around claiming that Amado had no input into their joint business.
Amado has the fleet of planes that can carry his product without Hank's airline. All he needed from Hank was influence with the government and the wealthy pirates who control the government. Hank's influence is fragile and is based completely on US dollars and gifts of Mexico's national holdings to his corrupt friends.
Hank's only source of large amounts of US dollars is Amado's smuggling operation. In Amado's place, Felix would have moved against Hank and shown him as incompetent during the lead-in to the NAFTA agreement, because the real control and profiteering was always tipped in favor of US interests and international banks with Mexico as a hapless junior partner whose profiteering depended on destruction of Mexico's economy.
Felix would have gotten Hank dethroned by his own partners, if Felix could have resisted the urge to make himself an emperor of sorts. Amado is too late to the game to do more than extract some of his own wealth before Hanks takes it all.
Episode 308
bobcobb30116 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"Last Dance" felt like a lot of the same from Narcos: Mexico that we have gotten this season and with only a few episodes left you have to be expecting a bit more.
Walt being so cavalier about the torturing just does not sit right with me. We know that he is mission-driven, we've known that since the beginning, but not at the expense of sacrificing an "innocent" person.
The Amado story continues to be such an intereting saga, but it doesn't seem like they have consistently booked things in line with history or even in a way where it is clear which allegiance he is pursuing episode to episode.
Walt being so cavalier about the torturing just does not sit right with me. We know that he is mission-driven, we've known that since the beginning, but not at the expense of sacrificing an "innocent" person.
The Amado story continues to be such an intereting saga, but it doesn't seem like they have consistently booked things in line with history or even in a way where it is clear which allegiance he is pursuing episode to episode.
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