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Seeing that they're both Netflix.. Even though the Pablo is charismatic, and seen (many times understandably) as a champion for the poor, I dont think there's sugar coating the things he did... blowing up planes, bombing the shit out the city, killing politicians. The later the show gets, the more desperate and violent he gets, thousands of innocents are killed regardless of who they are (social status, etc)... they're not really trying to make us see his side of things, by the end he's a literal terrorist. it also helps that the story is told/narrated from the DEA side
With Griselda there's a clear attempt to act as if she's doing what she's gotta do. Theres a part where she puts a hit on one of her own soldiers but turns out his child was in the car and gets killed, and she feels terrible about it, where in reality Griselda (at least according to her top soldier) was like fuck that kid. Same soldier tells another story where he went to a house to kill people and she got mad at him for letting the babies live... these are the kind of things that might make that Pablo quote true, but they want us to empathize with her on some level because they're trying to have it both ways. For an emphasis point It's not told by law enforcement like Narcos but its parallelled with a story about a female detective trying to navigate a bunch of grab-ass male cops despite being vastly superior to them, and it could be 100% accurate how it was for her, but it seems to only be in the show for the whole girlboss thing
I think the movie Blow suffered from this. George Jung is portrayed pretty as great guy, but literally everyone fucks him over. Kill the Irishman... same issue. It's also why i tapped out of Godfather of Harlem which sucks because i love Forrest Whittaker. I guess it's harder when the character is a real person, and not a fictional anti-hero ala Tony Soprano or Walter White... a Pablo Escobar story written from his perspective probably wouldn't work
Should also mention Sofia Vergara was awful lol
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