‘Griselda’s Best Episode Is Also the Show’s Most Brutal
By the time the curtain falls on Netflix’sGriselda, the show scrupulously establishes that the undying affinity to power could lead to greater tragedies than the journey to attaining that power in the first place. Griselda Blanco (Sofia Vergara, ofModern Familyfame) leads a crusade to the top of Miami’s drug business in the fourth episode, “Middle Management,” without blinking an eye at the amount of bloodshed it costs. The series' penultimate episode, “Paradise Lost,” quickly follows with the next phase in the story of the Godmother’s meteoric rise and fall....