Narcos: Mexico co-creator explains why the series finale couldn't be "neat and tidy"

The Hollywood Reporter

"How do you resolve the narrative without it feeling overly neat and tidy?" asks showrunner Carlo Bernard. "Those deaths and those shootings, all of which some version of took place in real life, felt like the only just conclusion. You follow these characters, and some of them aren’t going to get out of this alive, and you always sort of know that. We certainly couldn’t present something that felt like a whole bunch of happy endings. I think there are certain characters who have some aspect of growth, or whatever it is — resolution — that feels like they’ve earned some sort of happiness. But that’s not going to exist for most of the characters because of what they’re caught up in and because of the increased violence and stakes of all of this in the ’90s. In the ’90s is really when the drug trade gets globalized and deregulated, sort of in the same way that big business did in the ’90s. This is a period where violence on a much more operatic level becomes the norm, unfortunately." ALSO: Narcos: Mexico's final season brutally proved you can't tame trafficking.