What an absolute banger of an episode. Starting off with the most scalding of cold opens and continuing the excellent use of tracking shots from Kiki to Rafa and later on to the gangster - whose name escapes me right now - submerged in the beautiful red backlight of the truck. The final element that made this probably my favourite Narcos episode in general was the cinematic foreshadowing of Kiki's fate through the very deliberate occlusion, cornering him visually before the falls close in on him physically.
I was a bit lukewarm on the season as it started, but this episode has really won me around.
Good but definatley the weakest narcos out the lot!
Shout by DeletedBlockedParent2018-11-28T17:36:47Z
I haven't been reviewing this season, but just had to critique this episode in particular. The action, for most of the season, has been fairly poorly directed, but it hits an all time low with this episode. Its attempt at a one take fight (because, uh, you know, that's trendy now) is honestly laughable, and is also not a fitting cinematic technique for Narcos whatsoever. I hated the cinematography of the entire episode too. You can't just be glamorous for no reason. Here, none of the fancy shots have meaning and it's really distracting.
In addition to all that, I hated the editing of this episode, I hated the pacing of this episode, I hated the direction of this episode and, most importantly, I hated how much this didn't feel like the Narcos I love.
This is a definite outlier of this otherwise decent season (certainly the weakest season of Narcos yet though, without a doubt).