El dragón

I saw the rating at 7 and thought it would be good, first episode was good, filled with action, good locations and scenary and looked promising. However, on the second episode when the 3 main plots are revealed the whole series make no sense at all, and this lack of realism make it a waste of time to watch it.

As other users point out, it is very much like a soapopera and not an action tv show at all. But the bad thing is that it is a soapopera without sense.

I liked Luis Miguel TV show and not this one.

Not much of plot, but then the direction, acting, locations are absolutely fabulous! Great looking actors as well!

Love the series but extremely disappointed with the end of season 2 -I don't think I will be watching season 3 (if there is any).

Sign that it's a soap opera: 1. crappy acting 2. anytime something happens, loud music starts 3. improbably stories. always family backstabbing, innuendo's and lies that everyone falls though. 4. innocent girl or boy who gets mixed up in crap 5. super hero who has to be the bad guy, yet comes off as a good guy

All in all... acting was very stereotypical of Mexican cartels... If the main guy is so smart,. then why almost everyone around him is so insecure and jealous in 1 way or the other.

They also say 30 words when 4 would be enough... i.e building to a dramatic part and then dramatize it. 37 or so ep in s1 could be done in 16 or so, if they were cut out the "miguel, i have to tell you something, blah blah blah for 2 minutes.... darth vader in luke's father..." if you know what I mean...

After s1, I really had enough...

Pro:

• The casting suits perfect on each character, well done.
• The production is pretty good, lot of scenarios, cities and countries to discover.
• Only 2 seasons. (I don't like those kind of series with 225 episodes)
• Around 45 mins each episode.
• You will find action, drama, romance, treason and touches of light humour.
• There are some learnings and wise talking where you can learn a lot.
• No explicit sex scenes (I'm tired of 'modern' series that unnecessarily show more than they should)

Cons:

• I expected much more of the martial art fighting scenes, they look pretty bland, light, and unrealistic, not much effort in achieving a very good fight.

-Season 1 was good, season 2 is pretty long (44 episodes), it started good, but then all the episodes were very similar to each other, a kind of much more of the same, and became quite boring and wanted the show goes by quickly to switch to anything else, I would clearly cut around 10 episodes around the middle, but then more at the end the show becomes more interesting. I would have kept only 33 episodes as per Season 1.

• I didn't like the ending, the writer could have managed the ending a better.

In sum, it is a good show, but it is not for all audience but a more reduced and selective ones, you won't find here a Pablo Escobar, but a kind of high class 007 very smart mafia boss.