ggcarbone Review of El Dragón: Return of a Warrior

El Dragón: Return of a Warrior (2019–2020)

Good show but not for all audience

[7/10 · 22 August 2020]

Pro:

• The casting suits perfect on each character, well done.
• The production is pretty good, lot of scenarios, cities and countries to discover.
• Only 2 seasons. (I don't like those kind of series with 225 episodes)
• Around 45 mins each episode.
• You will find action, drama, romance, treason and touches of light humour.
• There are some learnings and wise talking where you can learn a lot.
• No explicit sex scenes (I'm tired of 'modern' series that unnecessarily show more than they should)

Cons:

• I expected much more of the martial art fighting scenes, they look pretty bland, light, and unrealistic, not much effort in achieving a very good fight.

-Season 1 was good, season 2 is pretty long (44 episodes), it started good, but then all the episodes were very similar to each other, a kind of much more of the same, and became quite boring and wanted the show goes by quickly to switch to anything else, I would clearly cut around 10 episodes around the middle, but then more at the end the show becomes more interesting. I would have kept only 33 episodes as per Season 1.

• I didn't like the ending, the writer could have managed the ending a better.

In sum, it is a good show, but it is not for all audience but a more reduced and selective ones, you won't find here a Pablo Escobar, but a kind of high class 007 very smart mafia boss.