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Netflix delivers a thriller wrapped in a history lesson BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH Fans of gangster epics should pounce on Netflix’s “Narcos.” The scripted 10-part miniseries, streaming in its entirety beginning today, offers the entertainment value of a thriller combined with a crash course in the history and geopolitics of the cocaine economy. Like “Goodfellas,” this tale is narrated by an inside player, DEA agent Steve Murphy (Boyd Holbrook). He’s first seen setting up an ambush of hit men for drug traffickers. He takes viewers through this elaborate effort, circa 1989, before the world knew much of cellphones, NSA wiretapping or GPS systems. Murphy then takes viewers even further back, to his early days with the agency, when he was chasing shaggy pot dealers in flip-flops through the streets of Miami. By the end of the first episode, the Florida city has become an abattoir, as thousands of Colombian drug dealers battle for territory. The city’s morgues couldn’t hold all of the newcomers. But before we get there, we detour yet again through history, to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s support for Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s bloody 1973 Chilean coup and military dictatorship. This is of interest because at the time, Chile was the world’s cocaine capital. When one lucky drug dealer survives a firing squad, he makes his way to Colombia and teams up with an ambitious smuggler known as Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura). And the rest is history. While capable of cold-blooded murder, Escobar lacks the frantic energy of a Hollywood heavy. A slightly pudgy business visionary, he looks like he should be captain of the bowling team. The machinations of the Colombian drug businessmen occupy the lion’s share of the action. Part of that is because their motivations (money and the power it brings) are so much clearer than those of Murphy and the DEA. “Narcos” does a good job of blending actual period news footage with its scripted action. We’re shown the classic clip of Nancy Reagan telling America’s youth to “just say no” to drugs. As a slogan, it’s

the rest of your life.” If you have, it’s time to “play it again, Sam” — a line that’s never actually uttered in the movie.

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Pedro Pascal, left, and Boyd Holbrook star in the Netflix original miniseries “Narcos.” pretty unambiguous. But many of the people in Escobar’s path had choices of a far different and more difficult nature. Confronting yet-to-be-corrupted customs officials, Escobar informs them that he knows everything about their private lives and the locations of their wives, children and loved ones. He then offers them a choice between “silver and lead” — between a bribe and a bullet. With its accent on small details, “Narcos” demonstrates how much history is all about ethical, legal and political ambiguity. Look for the moral lines to get decidedly blurry in the second hour, when Murphy teams up with undercover

DEA agent Javier Pena (Pedro Pascal, “Game of Thrones”) to infiltrate Escobar’s inner circle. I’m no fortune-teller, but I envision a lot of fans of “The Godfather,” “Goodfellas” and “Scarface” binging on “Narcos” this weekend.

CULT CHOICE Nobody will be “shocked, shocked” when they “round up the usual suspects” and name the most beloved and quotable movies of all time that the 1942 drama “Casablanca” (8 p.m., TCM) ranks near the top. If you’ve never seen this movie, “you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for

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Illusion” (8 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Keegan-Michael Key appears on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (8:30 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Candid cameras capture ethical dilemmas on “What Would You Do?” (9 p.m., ABC) * Aspiring illusionists audition on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) * “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC) * “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC).

LATE NIGHT Jimmy Fallon welcomes Barbra Streisand on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC, r) * Johnny Knoxville, Stephen Curry and Kelly Clarkson appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * Ice-T, Coco, Lucy Hale and Andy Daly visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) * Jim Gaffigan, Shiri Appleby and Best Coast appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r). Copyright 2015, United Feature Syndicate