Narcos

Crime-saga fans who like seeing both sides of the hunt will settle in quickly. The narration is dry, and real archive footage keeps cutting into the dramatization, so it feels like history told with liberties taken. A coke cook called Cockroach plays dead under a pile of bodies, then climbs out. As Escobar, Wagner Moura takes over every scene.

Season three moves to the Cali cartel and plays more like a procedural than the first two.