CNN —The title might be “Griselda” and the promotion all about Sofia Vergara, but this limited series devoted to a real-life drug kingpin could easily be dubbed “Narcos,” Season 4.
After a title card in which Pablo Escobar offers an admiring quote, “Griselda” opens with its frantic title character, Griselda Blanco, fleeing from Medellin to Miami with her three sons.
Vergara dons enough makeup to render her considerably less glamorous than her “Modern Family” image, although early accounts calling her “unrecognizable” must be from people who don’t know what Sofia Vergara looks like.
Still, as the series spans years and various crises, “Griselda” becomes the least compelling – albeit unintended – addition to the “Narcos” universe, a solid but almost by-the-numbers exercise.
Chalk that up in part to the fact that in both TV and the drug trade, the product doesn’t always deliver as much of a kick if you hit the same stuff too often.
Persons:
Griselda ”, Sofia Vergara, Pablo Escobar, “ Griselda ”, Griselda Blanco, Griselda, Carmen, Vanessa Ferlito, Vergara, Juliana Aidén Martinez, “ Narcos, Eric Newman, Andrés Baiz
Organizations:
CNN, Sofia, Netflix
Locations:
Medellin, Miami
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