Season 2 of 'Narcos' to premiere on Netflix Sept. 2

BEVERLY HILLS , Calif., June 13 (UPI) -- Netflix says the 10-episode, second season of its original series Narcos will be available on Sept. 2.

The show stars Wagner Moura as notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, alongside Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal as DEA agents Steve Murphy and Javier Peña.

"Narcos chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the infamous drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law enforcement to meet them head-on in brutal, bloody conflict," Netflix said in a press release.

"Its gritty storytelling details the many, often-conflicting forces -- legal, political, police, military and civilian -- that clash in the effort to control cocaine, one of the world's most valuable commodities."