Season 3

It's still very well produced. It looks beautiful. It's perhaps the weakest of all three seasons though.

• It still indulges in violence. That's repetitive and becomes dull eventually. It's as if the Netflix algorithm tells them that most people want pure action. I want to know more about politics, how crime families work, how Mayo's fleet operates, how Amados's cell organization actually works, how rich he actually is, how his logistics actually worked. Instead they tell next to nothing about it - they basically tell from the off that he's a talented and super-rich drug lord. Show - don't tell.
• Most guys are either drunk, high, immature boys or brainless hitmen. Even Mayo turned out this way. What these men are and what they think they are (business men, clever, family men) couldn't be further apart. Only major exceptions are perhaps Pacho and Amado. Telling their relationship would have deserved more time. Pacho of course was always fascinating. He lives in a world where almost all of the guys around him are homophobic hyper-masculine machos. And Amado was the only intriguing person of the male main characters: he was a romantic, a dreamer, a thinker and the only one who was not constantly plotting violence. In the end he even realized that all his fortune is worth nothing as long you're in that war - he's the only one who realized this. But even he wasn't able to find a way out.
• Some of the women on the other hand are intelligent and speak truth - I'd have loved too see more about Dina and Andrea.
• The sub-plot with the girl contributes nothing to the main story. It either deserves more time (cause the femicides are a tragedy) or it should have been intertwined with the narcos storyline.
• Same with the La Voz storyline. Most of the time Andrea is a glorified narrator from the off. They really missed the opportunity to connect her story to the main plot. With the exception of the story about the corrupt general all what she does is pretty inconsequential.

I'm looking forward for a fourth season though. But they must stop to tell the repetitive story of small town dealers becoming drug lords (and their eventual demise). I want to hear more about business, logistics, the meth revolution and narco submarines.