You'd need every appendage on your body (and probably a few from the corpses she's littered throughout the world) to account for the murders orchestrated by the real Griselda Blanco, a woman who former Miami-Dade drug homicide detective Al Singleton estimated in 1994 was responsible for at least 40 deaths. While she orders and commits several murders in the show's six episodes, you can count on two hands how many people die because of her. The real Griselda Blanco's life may have you choking on shock. The Andrés Baiz-helmed series will quench your thirst for suspense and murder. She wields a gold-plated Uzi, orders the killings of witnesses in front of their child, has a rival drug dealer's house bombed, and forces people to strip and crawl around like animals at gunpoint-the typical acts of a megalomaniacal tyrant on enough drugs to tranquilize Cocaine Bear. Sofia Vergara plays Blanco as she grows her cocaine business from being transported in the lining of women's underwear to an empire that corners the entire Miami market. The series begins with that Escobar quote to prepare you for what's to come. The show depicts a portion of the life of Griselda Blanco, the preeminent drug empress of the '70s and '80s, who was so vicious she inspired Pablo Escobar to say, "The only man I was ever afraid of was a woman named Griselda Blanco.” This is a man who once bombed a plane in an attempt to kill one person, and Griselda Blanco had him shaking in his chancletas. Trust me when I say that whatever you see on Griselda is nothing compared to the actual actions of the woman the show is based on. You may also already have seen the streamer's entire Narcos universe and become desensitized to cartel killings and cocaine trafficking. THERE'S A GOOD chance you'll watch Netflix's limited series Griseldaand come away horrified of what you've witnessed. *Warning: This post contains spoilers about Netflix's Griselda.*
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