When depicting the drug trade of the real world over the last few decades, Netflix has dominated the market. Whether it’s a series of true-crime documentaries or the popular but fictionalized Narcos TV series, the streaming service has covered the adventures and sins of quite a few traffickers across the Americas. Most notably, the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.Now, Netflix is telling the story of Griselda Blanco, starring Modern Family icon Sofia Vergara. Aptly titled Griselda, it focuses on Griselda fleeing Colombia and then building a cocaine empire in Miami in the 1980s. Over the course of the six-episode miniseries, the story reinterprets the real-life events of Blanco’s life for dramatic effect. Unfortunately, some of those changes do negatively impact the series’ ending.Netflix does sanitize this aspect of the real-life Griselda Blanco’s history. More specifically, Netflix tries to make Griselda a compassionate mother who’s standing up in a drug world. She succeeds as she corners the market with her South and Central American connections, becoming a multi-millionaire in the crime-thriller. However, as she gets older, Griselda loses her bearings and lets her sons fall into the trade, which alienates her new husband, Dario. The finale, “Adios, Miami” finds her going on a drug bender with Marta Ochoa.
When depicting the drug trade of the real world over the last few decades, Netflix has dominated the market. Whether it’s a series of true-crime documentaries or the popular but fictionalized Narcos TV series, the streaming service has covered the adventures and sins of quite a few traffickers across the Americas. Most notably, the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
Now, Netflix is telling the story of Griselda Blanco, starring Modern Family icon Sofia Vergara. Aptly titled Griselda, it focuses on Griselda fleeing Colombia and then building a cocaine empire in Miami in the 1980s. Over the course of the six-episode miniseries, the story reinterprets the real-life events of Blanco’s life for dramatic effect. Unfortunately, some of those changes do negatively impact the series’ ending.
Netflix does sanitize this aspect of the real-life Griselda Blanco’s history. More specifically, Netflix tries to make Griselda a compassionate mother who’s standing up in a drug world. She succeeds as she corners the market with her South and Central American connections, becoming a multi-millionaire in the crime-thriller. However, as she gets older, Griselda loses her bearings and lets her sons fall into the trade, which alienates her new husband, Dario. The finale, “Adios, Miami” finds her going on a drug bender with Marta Ochoa.
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