El Chapo: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of El Chapo Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 17, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera receives a visit from his second wife Graciela. After Amado’s death, Benjamín and Ramón Avendaño become the new drug-trafficking lords.
Episode 2
Sep 24, 2017
After escaping the Puente Grande Penitentiary, Joaquín Guzmán Loera asks ‘Chito’ to turn himself in to the police and declare that only he helped him break out in a laundry cart. '
Episode 3
Oct 1, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera escapes the GAFES’s arrest and later convinces them of working with him. 'El Chapo' organizes 'La Federación' with the ultimate leaders of drug trafficking aft
Episode 4
Oct 8, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera set up a trap for Raciel Cárdenas in order to take over Nuevo Laredo after the arrest. 'El Chapo' and 'La Federación' started a war against 'El Cano' and the b
Episode 5
Oct 15, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera heads to the funeral of his brother, 'El Pollo', murdered by 'Chente' and Raciel. 'El Cano' invades 'La Federacion's territory to kill 'El Chapo's men.
Episode 6
Oct 22, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera orders 'Don Sol' to avoid Andrés Labrador from becoming president of Mexico; he fears their business would be incompatible. Conrado schemes a fraud to make Fel
Episode 7
Oct 29, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera is the leader of a drug war sponsored by Felipe Alarcón and 'Don Sol' against 'El Cano', 'Los Emes' and 'Chente'. 'El Chapo' bribes the jury of a beauty pagean
Episode 8
Nov 5, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera promises 'Don Sol' he can end the failed Drug War and bring peace to the country. Thousands of innocents suffer the consequences of the conflict between 'La Fe
Episode 9
Nov 12, 2017
Arturo Bernal Leyda acts as peacemaker between Joaquín Guzmán Loera and 'El Cano' and 'Chente'. 'El Chapo' betrays the two fundamental partners of 'La Federación' to get one of his
Episode 10
Nov 19, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera orders the hunt of Arturo Bernal Leyda, who attacks him in his territory of Sinaloa with the help of 'El Cano' and 'Chente'. Nazario Moreno walks out of 'La Fe
Episode 11
Dec 3, 2017
Pain gets hold of Joaquín Guzmán Loera after the murder of his son, 'El Moreno', so he leaves Ismael in charge of the war. 'Don Sol' fears that 'El Cano', 'Chente' and Arturo Berna
Episode 12
Dec 3, 2017
Joaquín Guzmán Loera talks 'La Muñeca' and 'Tony Tormenta' into working with him against Arturo Bernal Leyda and 'El Cano'. 'Don Sol' is seen as Mexican president.