Monday Night TV: Senor de los Cielos Returns

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Tue Apr 21, 2015 at 09:03:47 PM EST
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Update: This may be the best season yet. (I won't give the plot details about characters for a few days to give people a chance to watch it.) Some non-spoiler details: Season three begins 4 years after season 2 ended so everyone's lives have changed. There's a more valuable commodity than cocaine -- uranium in Venezuela. As with last season, there are Venezuelan generals working with FARC in the Colombian jungle at the cocaine labs (which produce coke for the Mexican drug lords.) What's new is that the Iranians have entered the picture and are making deals with all of them to get their hands on Venezuelan uranium. The uranium is to be transported to Mexico and then the U.S. The CIA now wants to take control of Aurelio from the DEA because now it's a matter of national security.[More...]

The President of Mexico is making deals with the U.S. provided they won't interfere with his wife's plans to succeed him as President. Suffice it to say, they may make Aurelio (who is tortured daily in prison by corrupt Mexican guards in some brutal scenes) an offer he won't refuse.

It looks like the show will focus a lot more on political corruption on an international scale this season.

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Senor de los Cielos, Season 3, begins tonight on Telemundo. Aurelio Casillas(loosely based on deceased Mexican drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes) is in jail, having been taken down in the last episode of season 2. His daughter will make her entry into the drug business. She's pregnant with the child of his arch enemy, Chemo. Here's the first episode description:

The Lord of heaven is imprisoned in a bunker of the Mexican Navy. He has spent months locked between four walls without knowing if it is day or night, withstanding the hard punishment of torturers who seek out the names and whereabouts of accomplices. But Aurelio has not opened his mouth, because the real pain is not in the body with each blow, but on the inside, in his conscience, having lost his freedom, his empire, the life of Heriberto, his eldest son, the love of his daughters, Monica Robles and all the women who loved him.

While many of the good characters have been killed off, and his brother Chacorta (Vicente in real life, who arrested last year and may face extradition to the U.S.) isn't returning, there are still plenty of good characters left, inclu