‘Griselda’ Co-Creator and Sofía Vergara on Why the Netflix Series Doesn’t Cover the Cocaine Godmother’s Tragic Final Years
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Adios, Miami,” the series finale of “Griselda,” now streaming on Netflix.
When viewers arrive at the end of Netflix’s new limited series “Griselda” — about the life and crimes of feared drug lord Griselda Blanco — they might be surprised to learn there is a lot more to the story.
The series doesn’t follow Griselda into her post-prison twilight years. Instead, it ends with the so-called Cocaine Godmother of Miami on the worst day of her life –– a scene that tested Sofía Vergara, the woman playing her. “It was very emotional for me,” Vergara tells Variety of filming the sixth and final episode. “But I think with the help of [series director Andrés Baiz], I was able to tap into the things that, from the very beginning, made me believe that I could play her.” In the finale, Griselda is arrested in California and sentenced to 15 years in a federal prison for owning and operating a Miami cocaine empire that rivaled any other operation in North and South America.
But that is by far the least traumatic thing to happen in the final 10 minutes. First, it is implied that from behind bars Griselda has her estranged third husband Darío (Alberto Guerra) killed so she can reunite their son Michael with his half-brothers, her other three sons.
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