Narcos: Mexico Season 2 Ending Explained by Showrunner Eric Newman (Spoilers)
1,097Spoilers ahead for Narcos: Mexico...
The second season of Narcos: Mexico hit Netflix on Friday morning, and if you're anything like me, you quickly ingested it via binge-watch. It was another gripping season of television from the Narcos team -- one that leaves little doubt that the series will return.
Season 2 ran along two parallel tracks. It followed the ambitious Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna) as he unites various cartels, and it followed the DEA, led by Scoot McNairy's Walt Breslin, as they aim to avenge the death of Kiki Camarena (Michael Peña).
The season ends with a bang, albeit a quiet one. There's no gigantic shootout or car bombing. It boils down to a jailhouse showdown between Félix and Walt, who finally come face-to-face. The scene is absolutely riveting, just two phenomenal actors sitting across from each other, having a conversation. Does that sound familiar? Because it should.
"In every season of Narcos, we're inspired by films we've seen and stories we've heard, and that particular scene was very much influenced by Heat, and the need to have these two adversaries sit down and face off, and to get some sense of their ideology," said showrunner Eric Newman, who elaborated on the final scene in an interview with Collider:
"What I think is very unique about this show [is that] at that point in the season, they're no longer adversaries. It's over, and they've both lost. Neither one of them got the thing that they wanted, and they both went into this thing very naively. Walt thinks, 'I'm going to go down [to Mexico] and get justice. It's that simple. We're gonna go down there, we're gonna kick ass, and we're gonna win.' And Félix Gallardo believed he was going to control this partnership he had with the government, and that he wasn't disposable, he was a guy who had made himself so important in the economy of Mexico that he was above the law. Both guys find out that they're wrong, and they're having this conversation about where it's going to go," explained Newman, who gave credit to both Luna and McNairy, saying their performances were "spectacular."
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