Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal
| Escobar: El Patrón del Mal | |
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| Genre |
Drama Historical series |
| Created by | Juana Uribe Camilo Cano Gabriel Klement |
| Written by | Juan Camilo Ferrand (loosely based on the novel La parábola de Pablo by Alonso Salazar) |
| Directed by | Carlos Moreno Laura Mora |
| Starring |
Andrés Parra Angie Cepeda Vicky Hernández Cecilia Navia Nicolás Montero Ernesto Benjumea Germán Quintero |
| Country of origin | Colombia |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 113 (Caracol) 74 (international) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Juana Uribe Camilo Cano Gabriel Klement |
| Location(s) | Colombia |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes 43 minutes (international) |
| Production company(s) | Caracol TV |
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| Original network | Caracol TV |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480p (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | May 28 – November 19, 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (international title: Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord; also known as Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal) is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
From May 28 to November 1, 2012, Caracol TV aired Escobar: El Patrón del Mal weeknights at 9:30pm. From July 9 to July 27, 2012, Telemundo aired one-hour episodes of Pablo Escobar weeknights at 10pm/9c, replacing Decisiones Extremas. From July 30, 2012 to January 24, 2013, Telemundo aired half-hour episodes of Pablo Escobar and El Rostro de la Venganza weeknights, both sharing the 10pm time slot. From January 25 onwards, one-hour episodes of El Rostro de la Venganza were broadcast.
From January 2 until March 7, 2014 Canal 9 airs an hour of Pablo Escobar, El Patrón del Mal in the hours of 10:00 pm, replacing of Santos y Pecadores. From the March 10, 2014 Canal 9 transmits half hour Pablo Escobar, El Patrón del Mal, with El Señor de los Cielos that replacing the hours of 10:30 pm.
On November 25, 2013 issue confirms Telesudamérica Pablo Escobar, El Patrón del Mal in January, 2014. The December 16, 2013 Telesudamérica confirms a broadcast January 6. from January 6, 2014 Pablo Escobar, El Patrón del Mal Telesudamérica transmitted on the schedule at 4:00 pm, replacing Violetta.
The series begins and ends with his dramatic last moments before being shot to death by agents of the Colombian National Police, while escaping from a relative's home, and later flashing back to his childood in Valle de Aburra, Colombia, where Pablo is teased by his cousin, Gonzalo, and older brother, Peluche, on a footbridge crossing a creek, eventually rescued by his mother, who scolds Pablo for crying. His mother's influence on Escobar's life choices is portrayed in the first episode and throughout the series, starting with her admonishment that if he is going to do something bad, he had better do it really well, after he is frustrated while trying to cheat on a test and starting a class rebellion to avoid the consequences. As he and Gonzalo became older, they began their lives of organized crime, becoming bodyguards to a well known smuggler and eventually his partners, after successfully standing off with police in what would become Escobar's trademark "Plata o Plomo" approach to dealing with law enforcement -- "accept our bribe or prepare for a shootout with us." After robbing a bank and being turned in by one of their neighbors, Pablo and his cousin start their careers as murderers by killing him. Thereafter, the series follows Pablo's adventures and misadventures in organized crime and eventually cocaine smuggling, building an empire of wealthy criminals who contest power, often violently, with the Colombian state, eventually leading to murders of prominent politicians, policemen, business associates, friends, lovers, and eventually common citizens. The plot focuses on Escobar's contradictory drives to be a good husband; a decent, upstanding, Colombian citizen; a left-wing politician; a supporter of the poor; and a wealthy, powerful "bandido" (an endearing term for criminal, like "rascal"), all while seeking ever more political power, wealth, and sexual exploits.
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