Narcos Mexico

Narcos: Mexico follows the attempt to organise competing criminal interests into a more powerful business. Diego Luna's Félix Gallardo is the central attraction of the opening run: watchful, calculating and aware that agreement between dangerous partners is not something one can assume.

The series is particularly effective in meetings. A route, a territory or an arrangement with an official can matter more than an immediate confrontation. Michael Peña's investigator gives the early story another perspective on a system whose boundaries are difficult to see clearly from outside.

As with Narcos, this is dramatised history, not a transcript of the events it depicts. The performances and the practical business of building alliances are better reasons to watch than treating every private conversation as established fact.

You can begin here without having completed the Colombian series. The setting and principal relationships are introduced in their own right. It earns its companion status by showing another criminal network forming, with different pressures rather than simply repeating an earlier lead's trajectory.