Those cartel folks are so misunderstood, they have feelings too don't you know? If fiction is your fancy and you don't care much for plausibile plot lines then this show offers hours of predictable cliches. I liked this in the beginning but by the end it became too hard to watch with my eyes permanently rolled skyward.

1. Lots of black vehicles, mostly tough looking SUVs, to make the show seem tuff gangsta' like. 2. Lots of people wearing black so no need to explain that. Just another cheap stereotyping hook. OK, lead female needs to stand out a few times w/bloody red dress. 3. Lots of implausible holes in the storyline as if the script was poorly thought out. 4. Lots of coincidences like guns just showing up; airplanes & airstrips at opportune moments; being followed for miles and not noticing (always happens in movies - sooo dumb). 5. The so overused meeting of adversaries in a deserted field with black SUVs parked facing each other and a gun carrying cohort standing next to each - laughable. 6. Someone gets a knife pointed at them, but usually nothing beyond looks scary. The predictable someone unimportant gets shot every episode or two (always popular viewer feeding frenzy of blood spattered bullet to the head). Seem to always save important death until the end with open ended sailing into the sunset to promote another year. 7. Lots of drugs, of course, that's its basis, but overly dramatized making it all seem fake. Granted, it is fiction, with a little grain of reality. 8. Dialogue not important as indicated by no subtitles, poor audio levels, not clear enunciations, and dumbed down dialogue. It's all so predictable why waste time watching what has been shown a thousand times already; just ff. 9. Acting is limited to look nasty & tough w/a tat on the neck or wherever.

I think it's natural to compare this to Narcos. Narcos was brilliant: superbly written, directed, acted, yadda yadda. Compared to Queen of the South, Narcos is a kobe steak and Queen of the South is a McRib. Awful writing, acting and storyline. And did I mention the bad acting?

I use to see the previews of the episodes from Seasons one and two, and never watched the show. I thought to myself, "What is this skinny young girl doing, trying to be a drug lord"? I turned the channel. Boy, was I ever wrong. I caught up by binging over the weekend on Seasons one and two on Netflix. I can barely wait until Season three begins. This is one of the best and most exciting and well-written drug lord vs. drug lord TV shows since Breaking Bard. Brava. Both Teresa Mendoza and Camilla Vargas are bad ass all the way.