“Escobar hadn’t built himself a prison at all. He’d built himself a fortress. But no matter how you decorate it, a cage is still a cage.”
— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
Season
by Wagner Moura, Stephanie Sigman, Diego Cataño, Jorge A. Jimenez, Raúl Méndez and 14 others
Season one chronicles the rise of drug lord Pablo Escobar, the ruthless boss of the Medellin Cartel and a known terrorist who was also a congressman, a family man and revered by the poor as a new Robin Hood.
(19 total)
Characters
“Escobar hadn’t built himself a prison at all. He’d built himself a fortress. But no matter how you decorate it, a cage is still a cage.”
— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
“Nowadays, the US government can listen to anything you say. They know where you are, they know who you’re talking to, and trust me, they know who you’re fucking. You turn on a cell phone or a computer, and you’re doomed. But in Colombia in 1989, it wasn’t that easy. First off, there was no Internet.…”
— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
“Sometimes bad guys do good things.”
— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
“Back then, we were just finding out about the effects of cocaine on the human brain. We didn’t know much, but we knew it was some pretty powerful shit. Cocaine hijacks the pleasure centres in the brain. A rat will choose cocaine over food and water. It would choose cocaine over sleep, over sex, over…”
— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
“Colombians say, God made our land so beautiful it was unfair to the rest of the world. So to even the score, God populated the land with a race of evil men.”
— Dana Ledoux Miller, Presidente Cesar Gaviria, Raúl Méndez, imdb.com
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the narco world, it’s that life is more complicated than you think. Good and bad, they’re relative concepts.”
— Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Steve Murphy, Boyd Holbrook, imdb.com
“There is a time to fight and there is a time to be clever.”
— Chris Brancato, Nick Schenk, Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura, imdb.com