L'ultimo dragone

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 !!

Normally I would give a show like this 6, to max 7 stars, if I would even watch it, because 6-7 stars means boring. This show isn't boring at all though. To me it's worth 8 stars because it does keep me hooked on (despite some very annoying characters like 'the female chauffeur' (omg: shut up singing and 'being innocent', we get the point) but also the 'strange IT girl' (heavy over the top, if that's what 'strange' means in Mexico: wow... ). The brother is like 'rain man' - almost every character is "over the top" and being a persiflage of someone.

Another annoying thing: every scene lasts abt 2 till 3 minutes, and there are about 10 story-lines crossing eachother and of course connecting with eachother.

Yet .....

It keeps me absolutely hooked on!! The conversations are appearing quite natural to me, constantly there are intriges going on an danger - the drugscriminals look and behave authentic to me as how I immagine these people would behave/ look, without becoming an annoying cliché. Yes, every evening we watch abt 3 shows and loving it!

Yesterday my husband and I said to eachother: when missing one episode, it's almost impossible to reproduce all the events happend during that episode.

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!

... 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?

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.