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Griselda (2024)

2024 · Biography,Crime,Drama · dramatized-true-crime, mob-organized-crime, period-near-history

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Griselda is a 2024 Netflix limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian 'Godmother of Cocaine' who built a Miami drug empire in the 1970s–80s. Sofia Vergara carries the show almost entirely on her shoulders, delivering a physically transformed and widely praised performance that trades on menace over sympathy. The series is handsomely produced with strong period atmosphere, escalating graphic violence, and propulsive plot momentum — but its compressed 6-episode format is a persistent critical complaint, leading to rushed character development, tonal inconsistency, and a protagonist arc that fails to fully earn its darker turns. It sits squarely in the Narcos tradition and appeals primarily to viewers already invested in cartel-era crime drama.

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Sofia Vergara does a fairly good job with that she is given but the character is written as an animal backed into a corner, rather than the ruthless sociopath that was the real Griselda.
I thought I was going to be distracted by Sofia Vergara's prosthetics but after a few minutes you don't even notice it. The entire cast does an excellent job but I couldn't believe how good Sofia was as Griselda. She stole every scene she was in and was terrifying as Griselda.
Every episode from episode 3 onwards basically skips at least three episodes of good material, which is at odds with how carefully but adequately the show started.
the show suddenly becomes really violent halfway through, even though no convincing chain of events were set in place to make that change believable.
The REAL Griselda Blanco was an unrepentant mass murder. She was directly investigated for 40 murders and believed to be responsible for 250, total. This miniseries glazes over that. There is only a tiny fraction of The Black Widow's hits shown and a lot of the murders take place off camera.

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