Pay your toll, sell your soul

For all its violence and murder Narcos: Mexico is comfort viewing. The third season on Netflix is a prequel but that almost doesn’t matter because the stories are so cyclical they're practically a wheel. We know what's coming, the same morality tale over and over. Like a great pop song, you want to hear it again and again.

A lot of the fun in s03 is watching Scoot McNairy do his thing. He's like a two-door Gene Hackman, ever hovering between protagonist and victim. The most effective stars are the new faces. Luis Gerardo Mendez as Juarez city police officer Victor Tapia is unknowable. Mayra Hermosillo as the Tijuana Cartel boss Enedina Arellano Félix is potency off the charts.