Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watched first few episodes.

It is very well done, acting convincing and sets realistic.

I did not recognize Sophia as her make up was so heavy - took 1.5 hours before shooting each day.

However, it is heart breaking that Griselda continued to make worse and worse decisions that not only placed her and her sons at great risk, but created a whole new market for highly addictive drugs among wealthy retirees, young professionals and others who not previously been much exposed to drugs.

Another sad thing for me was that Sophia helped to break down stereotypes of Columbian Cocaine cartels and crime with her iconic Gloria role in Modern Family. Now she is showing off her acting chops but totally reinforcing negative stereotypes of Colombian culture being crime addled, sexist, violent, and depraved.

But it is well done.

This series has really sanitized Griselda. They portray her as a plucky woman who escaped sex work and her abusive husband and made a new life for herself (while giving other sex workers freedom!), and came up with novel ideas to sell drugs because she had to feed her children and male drug dealers didn't respect her. She was in the drug business and had been convicted of drug-related crimes well before the point at which the series starts. Men were terrified of her, because she was a murderous sociopath. She killed three of her husbands. She killed a child when she was a child herself!
I do appreciate that she was a product of poverty, child sex abuse, lack of opportunity, and so on. And she probably was charismatic. But the series, despite me enjoying it for what it was, is ridiculous. Watch the Cocaine Cowboys documentary.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watched first few episodes.

It is very well done, acting convincing and sets realistic.

I did not recognize Sophia as her make up was so heavy - took 1.5 hours before shooting each day.

However, it is heart breaking that Griselda continued to make worse and worse decisions that not only placed her and her sons at great risk, but created a whole new market for highly addictive drugs among wealthy retirees, young professionals and others who not previously been much exposed to drugs.

Another sad thing for me was that Sophia helped to break down stereotypes of Columbian Cocaine cartels and crime with her iconic Gloria role in Modern Family. Now she is showing off her acting chops but totally reinforcing negative stereotypes of Colombian culture being crime addled, sexist, violent, and depraved.

But it is well done.

This series has really sanitized Griselda. They portray her as a plucky woman who escaped sex work and her abusive husband and made a new life for herself (while giving other sex workers freedom!), and came up with novel ideas to sell drugs because she had to feed her children and male drug dealers didn't respect her. She was in the drug business and had been convicted of drug-related crimes well before the point at which the series starts. Men were terrified of her, because she was a murderous sociopath. She killed three of her husbands. She killed a child when she was a child herself!
I do appreciate that she was a product of poverty, child sex abuse, lack of opportunity, and so on. And she probably was charismatic. But the series, despite me enjoying it for what it was, is ridiculous. Watch the Cocaine Cowboys documentary.

Anonymous wrote:Watched first few episodes.

It is very well done, acting convincing and sets realistic.

I did not recognize Sophia as her make up was so heavy - took 1.5 hours before shooting each day.

However, it is heart breaking that Griselda continued to make worse and worse decisions that not only placed her and her sons at great risk, but created a whole new market for highly addictive drugs among wealthy retirees, young professionals and others who not previously been much exposed to drugs.

Another sad thing for me was that Sophia helped to break down stereotypes of Columbian Cocaine cartels and crime with her iconic Gloria role in Modern Family. Now she is showing off her acting chops but totally reinforcing negative stereotypes of Colombian culture being crime addled, sexist, violent, and depraved.

But it is well done.

Anonymous wrote:Watched first few episodes.

It is very well done, acting convincing and sets realistic.

I did not recognize Sophia as her make up was so heavy - took 1.5 hours before shooting each day.

However, it is heart breaking that Griselda continued to make worse and worse decisions that not only placed her and her sons at great risk, but created a whole new market for highly addictive drugs among wealthy retirees, young professionals and others who not previously been much exposed to drugs.

Another sad thing for me was that Sophia helped to break down stereotypes of Columbian Cocaine cartels and crime with her iconic Gloria role in Modern Family. Now she is showing off her acting chops but totally reinforcing negative stereotypes of Colombian culture being crime addled, sexist, violent, and depraved.

But it is well done.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oooh I've been looking for something to watch and I've read a bit about Griselda.
I'm fascinated by drug cartels, particularly the women involved in them.

Yes, excellent role models for our daughters.

Anonymous wrote:Oooh I've been looking for something to watch and I've read a bit about Griselda.
I'm fascinated by drug cartels, particularly the women involved in them.