I want to see Sofia get her hands dirty now. Maybe some horror. Definitely some horror.

On the news I heard that Sofia was worried she wouldn't be taken seriously in a dramatic role, I understand in the way a Woman who falls under that traditional "super hot bimbo/tropy wife" role, but she has more than proved her talent in Modern Family (hell, they even thought she was just a trophy wife at the beginning, but that quickly changed didn't it ;) ) alone as far as I am concerned. I don't like binging new shows, I love to take the time and process each episode, but I could not stop watching it was so damn good. I don't even watch narco-esque shows or movies, I only watched it after I heard her comment on the news doubting herself, and if you have any question about the truth of her statement... Episode 4, go to the 26 minute mark (something like that when she starts her speech) and in a spoiler free way, that alone was the minute where any doubt you may have had left should been gone. I hope the hate due to it being a female lead is minimal (or gone), as this really deserves to be looked at during the awards season.

Holy shit they did Sofia dirty. What a miscast. Other than that it's just another coke Netflix series, nothing new.

Oh no. Netflix has done it yet again and made me root for and feel somewhat sorry for a criminal, bravo guys. Prior to a few days ago, I had never heard the name Griselda Blanco. That was until I saw that a new Narcos-like show had started on Netflix that, surely enough, had some of the same writers behind the lauded Narcos (2015). It shows too because in its opening minutes, it feels like competently made TV. It's difficult to explain but after a while, you can kinda tell if a show is going to be decent or not by the way it feels. The way it's shot and the atmosphere is something that you can differentiate from a show that has a paper mache budget from one that doesn't, and Griselda certainly has that HBO-like blockbuster feel that you can see in its set designs, clothes, acting and overall composition. Speaking of acting, a lot of it is good, but the star of the show is Griselda and watching Sofia Vergara (who like Morgan Freeman and others doesn't seem to age at all) struggle to her rise to power and slowly lose it all left me conflicted to say the least. The power to change your life doesn't often come easy, especially in her case. The fear, blood, looking over your shoulder always and betrayal that comes with her life is something I struggle to understand if it's worth it in the end. Her come up made me sympathize with what people from other parts of the world go through to just live, let alone survive, and how some of those same people look to a country with plenty of problems as their way out. I might have to finally check out Narcos because if I was this impressed with Griselda, I can't imagine what's in store for me there.

I wished this was better. It wasn't. First elephant in the room, make up/prosthetics on Sofia were terrible. She was never going to look like Griselda. Why this weird botched middle ground? I don't know how that got approved. Story pacing was so so. It felt as if we were stop and start racing through plot points. Spending too much time on unimportant or uninteresting segments only to breeze by more intriguing moments. I wish we would have gotten a bit more time with Griselda on top of the world before the inevitable collapse and her murder. I liked where and how it ended, but it missed on a lot of the bigger story points. Writing was ok. I did enjoy the fashion, music, and hair. Really fun exposure to the culture of Latinos and Miami in this moment of time. I though Sofia did well, but not spectacularly. Her inspirational/rousing speeches fell flat or just felt like her screaming her dialogue instead of actually inspiring. She did well playing off her male leads though. Overall, if you like Sofia you'll like this. If you don't, move on past this series.