Narcos Season 2 Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

4. Death Has A Greater Impact

It goes without saying that a lot of people die in this show, and while last season touted an epic body count, it didn't manage to give death the major dramatic impact that it sorely needed: most of the deaths were anonymous collateral damage, drug dealers you had little sympathy for or characters who had just been introduced an episode-or-so before.

That's not the case this time. The second season matches the brutality of the first while naturally bringing about the demise of several characters fans have come to know and love over the course of 10-20 episodes. There are some especially disturbing death scenes regarding children this time, and the body count ratchets up significantly in the final few episodes.

Whether it's long-standing characters meeting their fate or impressive new ones getting cut down, death as a whole just feels like it has more weight and gravity this time, not that it was totally throwaway before either.