BLOC MAGAZINE WINTER 18-19

WINTER WATCHING With long winter nights drawing in, now is the perfect time to stay home and binge- watch an entire streaming series. Here are a few of our favourites... NARCOS: MEXICO - NETFLIX SEASON 1 AVAILABLE NOW Narcos: Mexico explores the origins of the modern drug war by going back to its roots, beginning at a time when the Mexican trafficking world was a loose and disorganized confederation of independent growers and dealers. Witness the rise of the Guada- lajara Cartel in the 1980s as Félix Gallardo takes the helm, unifying traffickers in order to build an empire. When DEA agent Kiki Camarena moves his wife and young son from California to Guadalajara to take on a new post, he quickly learns that his assignment will be more challenging than he ever could have im- agined. HOMECOMING - AMAZON PRIME SEASON 1 AVAILABLE NOW Heidi Bergman is a caseworker at Homecoming, a facility that helps soldiers transition back to civilian life. She leaves Homecoming to start a new life living with her mother and working as a small-town wait- ress. Years later, the Department of Defense questions why she left, which makes Heidi realize that there's a whole other story behind the one that she's been telling herself. Oscar winner Julia Roberts stars as Heidi in the first regular TV series role of her career. "Homecoming" is based a podcast of the same name.