Netflix doesn’t plan to kick its Narcos habit anytime soon. A quick renewal has been given to the recent prequel iteration, making Narcos: Mexico season 2 official. – Mind you, the official billing identifies the new frame as “season 2,” even though the November-premiered season was, technically, season 4 of the main Narcos series. (Similar to how Red Dead Redemption 2 is, technically, the third entry in the Red Dead video game series.)
The streaming giant touted the Narcos: Mexico season 2 renewal with a teaser video and an empire-building logline.
Netflix – in typical fashion – is keeping the quantitative data for the November 16-launched Narcos: Mexico close to its chest, but the streaming giant is clearly treating it like a hit series. (Which is more than we can say for Daredevil – sorry, we’re still a bit salty about that one.) Yet, the Mexico renewal may have been telegraphed back in October, when showrunner Eric Newman signed an overall deal with Netflix. Indeed, back on November 19th, just after the release of Mexico, Newman made comments to THR that seemed to carry an air of certainty about its renewal prospects, lauding:
“I will do this as long as they’ll let me do it. Narcos is the greatest and most satisfying professional endeavor of my life, and to write and creatively steer this show for now four seasons, it would be unique even if I hadn’t been a movie producer for the first 20 years of my career. It’s a strange transition, but man, I love it.”
Narcos: Mexico made some interesting – necessary – changes to the Netflix cartel drama as it became long in the tooth, tapping into a welcome Pacino/Scarface type setting by shifting its storyline back to the early 1980s and tapping an impressive headlining duo of notably film stars Diego Luna and Michael Peña. The season set the story context of the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel with the cat-and-mouse game of the cartel’s Félix Gallardo (Luna) against DEA agent Kiki Camarena (Peña). Moreover, the fact-based prequel series even managed to acknowledge its own lineage with a single-episode return of Wagner Moura’s Pablo Escobar, the cartel kingpin at the centre of the main Narcos series in its first two seasons.
While the events of Narcos: Mexico seem to suggest that Luna’s Gallardo will return for the follow-up frame, it also suggests that Peña’s Kid Camarena is out with Scoot McNairy’s narrator character set to take his place as the show’s default DEA agent.
Narcos: Mexico season 2 release date
Narcos: Mexico season 2 does not have a release date as of yet, with Netflix simply teasing that it’s “coming soon.”
However, considering that season 1 arrived on November 16th, 2018, it’s safe to expect season 2 sometime around autumn, 2019.