Narcos: Mexico Season 3

The cocaine empire is a man’s world no longer. At least as far as the narrator goes. Throughout the history of the Narcos franchise—this is the final season of its second incarnation, Narcos: Mexico—manly men like Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal, and Scoot McNairy have provided the alternately informative and embittered voiceovers that help us in the audience keep track of the sprawling cast of characters and the countless machinations of the cartels, law enforcement agencies, and rogue paramilitaries that wage the drug war on which the show is based. This time, however, we hear the voice of a Spanish- and English-speaking woman telling us what’s what. (According to reports, it’s a journalist character named Andréa Nunez, played by Luisa Rubino.) As series co-creator Carlo Bernard takes over as showrunner (he also wrote this episode, directed by series mainstay Andrés Baiz) from Eric Newman, the introduction of a narrator who isn’t part of the American government’s efforts to take the cartels down is a big break from the past. On a show this consistent, for both good and bad, a change like that really stands out.