El Dragón: Return of a Warrior

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.

El dragón is a TV serie that will keep you engaged until the end, it is so incredibly well done that it was long time that I didn't see something good like this. It is a mix of action, spy, adventure, romance and HiTech really well balanced and delivered in the best way possible. Congratulation to all the actors, they are amazing!

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...

... but could have been more interesting - frequent scene jumping, sometimes boring and repetitive tasks which even annoyed the actors. The End was disappointingly simple and that's it?

Just finished binge watching this series and yes some of it is a bit OTT but no more than any other series out there that is fictional. I loved the characters, hated the mean characters, wanted to punch Epigmenio, Tacho, Chisca and Jimena in their faces - definitely had the villains and the heroes- need to see Miguel finally allow himself to love Adela - a bit of a telinovella if that's how its spelt - give me more !!