Released more than eleven years ago on Netflix, this series is now enjoying great interest from audiences around the world. The proof, the program has climbed into the top 10 of the most viewed fictions around the world on the platform.
It is a real consecration that comes more than a decade after the release of the program. Better late than never, some would say. In 2011, the first season of the series Pablo Escobar: The Boss of Evil entered the catalog of Netflix. If the program had not been particularly emulated at the time, it is now enjoying real international success. A success missed by many French subscribers to the platform for whom the simple mention of Pablo Escobar refers directly to Narcosanother series netflix inspired by the life of this drug lord.
However, the Colombian series of the platform with the red logo is posting record performances. Between May 22 and May 28, 2023, Pablo Escobar: The Boss of Evil climbed into the Top 10 most watched series on Netflix. The program has accumulated no less than 8,250,000 hours of viewing in one week. What to question the producers of the series whose first season has been available on the platform for 11 years.
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A hard-to-explain success
How can this sudden increase in interest in the program be explained? Difficult to answer with certainty. In any case, and as its name may imply, the series traces the life of Pablo Escobar, one of the most infamous drug traffickers in the world. From his beginnings as a delinquent in his village of Rionegro to his rise to the top of the Medellin cartel, stronghold of the Colombian criminal organization, the program follows the journey of one of the most notorious drug lords.
There is no doubt that those who have already seen the series Narcosinspired by the life of the same man, will find similarities in the program. In this adaptation of the criminal’s life broadcast from 2016 on Netflix, the public follows the adventures of two agents of the American federal anti-drug agency (DEA) who have the mission to track down the man who, after having amassed immeasurable fortunes thanks to drug money, declared war on the Colombian state. The program Narcos had been nominated in 2 categories at the Golden Globes of 2016.
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Inspired by a true story and directed by Juan Uribe and Camilo Cano, series Pablo Escobar: the boss of bad behavior 74 episodes of about forty minutes on average. The Colombian program thus seems perfectly suited to inveterate fans of fiction dedicated to the ruthless world of drug traffickers.
