Narcos season 3 explained

Season Number:	3
Bgcolour:	465B61
Network:	Netflix
Num Episodes:	10
Prev Season:	Narcos Season 2
Next Season:	Narcos: Mexico Season 1
Episode List:	List of Narcos episodes

The third and final season of Narcos, an American crime thriller drama streaming television series produced and created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, follows the story of the Cali Cartel. Pedro Pascal reprises his role from the previous two seasons.

All 10 episodes of the season became available for streaming on Netflix on September 1, 2017 and were met with very positive reviews.^[1]

Narcos was initially renewed for a fourth season, but it instead became , a prequel/sequel companion series.

Cast and characters

See main article: List of Narcos characters.

Main

• Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña, DEA agent tasked with taking down the Cali cartel
• Damián Alcázar as Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela – the leader of the Cali Cartel and one of Pablo Escobar's primary rivals
• Alberto Ammann as Hélmer "Pacho" Herrera – a Colombian drug lord and high-ranking member of the Cali Cartel
• Francisco Denis as Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela – a high-ranking member of the Cali Cartel and Gilberto's younger brother
• Pêpê Rapazote as José "Chepe" Santacruz-Londoño – a high-ranking member of the Cali Cartel who oversees the group's operations in New York City
• Matias Varela as Jorge Salcedo Cabrera – the Cali Cartel's head of security
• Javier Cámara as Guillermo Pallomari – the chief accountant of the Cali Cartel
• Arturo Castro as David Rodríguez – Miguel's son
• Eric Lange as Bill Stechner – the CIA Station Chief in Colombia
• Andrea Londo as María Salazar – wife of a Colombian drug-lord affiliated with the North Valley cartel
• Kerry Bishé as Christina Jurado – the American wife of a banker affiliated with the Cali cartel
• Michael Stahl-David as Chris Feistl – DEA agent working under Peña
• Matt Whelan as Daniel Van Ness – DEA agent partnered with Feistl
• José María Yazpik as Amado Carrillo Fuentes - a Mexican drug trafficker allied with Pacho and the Cali cartel, known as "The Lord of the Skies"
• Juan Carlos Messier as Gustavo Calderón, a corrupt police captain who is murdered by the Cali cartel

Recurring

• Juan Sebastián Calero as Navegante, a violent associate of the Cali Cartel who works as their top henchman
• Juan Pablo Shuk as Colonel Hugo Martínez, the commander of Search Bloc
• Brett Cullen as Ambassador Arthur Crosby, a former Navy officer sent as US Ambassador to Colombia by George H. W. Bush in 1992, replacing Noonan
• Gaston Velandia as José Serrano, General of the Colombian National Police
• Margarita Rosa de Francisco as Carolina Álvarez, Colombian journalist working for El Tiempo
• Roberto Cano as Darío, David Rodriguez’s partner in crime
• Sebastián Eslava as Nicolas Rodrígue, Gilberto's son
• Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Franklin Jurado
• Edward James Olmos as Chucho Peña, Javier's father
• Raymond Ablack as Stoddard
• Shea Whigham as Agent Duffy
• Gabriel Iglesias as Dominican Gangster
• Carlos Camacho as Claudio Salazar
• Taliana Vargas as Paola Salcedo
• Bre Blair as Lorraine
• Wayne Knight as Alan Starkman
• Andrés Crespo as Carlos Córdova
• Lux Pascal (under Lucas Pascal) as Elias

Episodes

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the third season holds an approval rating of 97% based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 7.46/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Narcos continues to evolve in its third season, drawing on historical details to take viewers on a thoroughly gripping -- and unsettlingly timely -- journey into darkness."^[2] On Metacritic, season three holds a score of 78 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Narcos season 3: when does it return to Netflix, and what will happen without Pablo Escobar?. Daily Telegraph.
2. Web site: Narcos: Season 3 (2017). Rotten Tomatoes. October 18, 2017.
3. Web site: Narcos Season 3 reviews. Metacritic. October 9, 2017.