La chasse aux gringos

This is not at all as good as Narcos. The narrative is confusing and chaotic. Scenes are randomly strung together so that viewer continuity becomes impossible. While the story might be a good one, the narrative is so confusing that the plot is really never clear. The audio track is also very poor, and the Spanish dialog is hard to hear. It's really not a great series.

5 August 2025. It is a excellent series with a talented Mexican cast. It's about time to see U. S American born criminals who escape the law and flee to other countries and how they live and survive. Usually, there are films or t.v shows about foreigners sneaking into U. S. A. I hope this series get renewed for at least 3 more years. Two Thumbs up.

This series from Ron Howard and others dives into fascinating stories of Mexican law enforcement tracking down wanted fugitives accused of committing felonies in the U. S. then fleeing.

It makes sense that there would be thousands of such cases, from organized crime, fraud, or extortion to killing or injuring a spouse or family member.

However, I find it annoying when shows rely on attention tricks like having experienced, professional women emotionally breakdown when in a stressful or life-threatening situation, or have a trained, specialized law enforcement team always violate protocol in order to make a scene more suspenseful.

An example of the first is in the "Test of Trust" episodes when gang members briefly abduct Gloria. That is also an example of the second, in that she goes solo at night into a dangerous barrio to look for a potential witness. The show repeatedly relies on officers not communicating with their team (keeping secrets even though every team member has one or more teammates they trust strongly) or going solo into dangerous situations without backup (and other breaches of safety protocol). I find these devices to be unrealistic and simply a gimmick to add suspense and emotional intrigue to hook the audience. At least in the first half of the series, Gloria is a strong, driven, and competent female officer who is a respected leader with all around her. Then later in the series she seems to fall apart, allows her criminal ex-husband to mess with her personal life, etc. Absent an addiction or other influence, the change in her character doesn't make sense to me. Archi's character is very inconsistent too- at times he's a disciplined, hard-charging officer then he almost refuses to arrest a fugitive couple because they have their kids with them (who they actually abducted). He goes from task-oriented and competent to blubbering, vacillating self-doubt!

All the team members seem to go through a psychological breakdown at the same time, often in kind of pathetic ways. Faced with attempts to sabotage the team from powerful forces, seems more likely this highly competent, tight-knit team would tend to rally and support each other not make it so easy for outside forces to pick each one off individually!

Also, sometimes characters have incongruous behaviors or comments. Example is at a team meeting, Beto goes from insisting that Ortega and the police chief are hellbent to find cause to fire each one of the team one by one, but a minute later as they wrap up he says everything is going to be just fine! There is quite a bit of that where characters seem to contradict themselves or violate their own supposed values and feelings.

Ron, you're better than that, but the subject matter is fascinating- the Mexico-U. S. border is typically portrayed as one-directional northbound re: illegal migration, but this series shows that it"s bi-directional!

If you love Mexican Narco world, series like Narcos or Narcos Mexico even movies like El Infierno this one is for you. The cast is superb, the script is acceptable and acting is enough convincing for a Netflix production.

First, the cast is amazing (Manuel Masalva from Narcos Mexico), for instance and several more very well know faces from similar shows or movies like El Infierno (a masterpiece).

Second, the script is too soft. Compared to Narcos or similar movies like Sicario for instance, the series is more into a soap opera level. Didn't like it. But still enjoyable.

Last, acting is not as good as other productions because of the predictable script and the most superficial characters. On the other hand, it doesn't look cheap or it does not use too much CGI, as other Netflix productions.

Anyway nothing is perfect and there is a great road of improvement just with a more twisted and risky script. The cast is there, locations are perfect. Hopefully they will do it.

Very entertaining series portraying the interesting and dangerous work of a Mexican police unit dedicated to capturing US criminals who have fled to their country.

The actors playing the squad team, led by the brilliant Harold Torres, all play their roles really well and are very believable as a tight-knit bunch of colleagues who have each others' backs. The banter and the care they have for each other is totally believable.

With different cases each episode - along with one big case that features throughout the whole series, it's fun, exciting and thoroughly enjoyable.