Exclusive: Netflix orders 2 more seasons of 'Narcos'

Pablo Escobar may be departing, but Narcos isn’t going anywhere.

Just four days after Season 2’s 10 episodes were released on Netflix, the streaming service Tuesday reveals plans for two more seasons of the gritty drama, which focuses on drug cartels operating in Colombia in the late 20th century.

Season 1 tracked the rise of real-life cocaine kingpin Escobar (Wagner Moura) in the 1970s and 1980s, while Season 2 looks at the 18 months leading up to his death in 1993. Neither Moura nor the producers have made any secret of Escobar’s impending death.

“This will be the end of Pablo Escobar. He will die this season,” executive producer Eric Newman tells USA TODAY. “The show was never about Pablo Escobar. It was always about the drug war, and the drug war continues on. In fact, it continues on into the present.”

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As the effort to take down Escobar and his Medellin Cartel accelerates, others will rise to fill the power void, including the Cali Cartel. Two of the four Cali “godfathers” are the Rodriguez brothers, who are introduced in Season 2.

A short video announcing Seasons 3 and 4 of Narcos, which is filmed in Colombia, opens with the face of Escobar (Moura) and closes with that of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damián Alcázar).

The Cali Cartel will provide a great challenge for law enforcement, Newman says.

“They were much more buttoned down, much more financially and legally savvy,” he says. “I would say Escobar was a single-cell organism and the Cali Cartel was a much more sophisticated animal.”