'Narcos' Season 2 New Release Date: When Does Pablo Escobar Return to Netflix?

It's been nearly a year since Brazilian actor Wagner Moura embodied arguably the most famous drug lord in history, Pablo Escobar, in Netflix's Spanish-language series Narcos -- and we have a new release date for his return to the role. When is the Medellin cartel coming back to the subscription-based streaming site?

Though it was reported last month that the second season would hit the small screen in August, things have changed. Taking to their official USA and Canada YouTube channel, Netflix revealed this Monday morning that Narcos would release its new 10-episode season on September 2, barely a few days after the show turns a year since first premiering. The announcement was made through a short teaser showing Moura as Escobar, with the series' theme song, "Tuyo," sung by Rodrigo Amarante.

The first season was well received by critics, and it currently holds a 78 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 77% one on Metacritic. The show was also nominated for two Golden Globes (Best Drama Series and Best Actor in a Drama Series for Moura), but it wasn't eligible for last year's Emmys, so if the first season gets any love from the TV Academy, it'll be at the next ceremony.

The first season of the series, a fictionalized account of the war on drugs during the 80s and early 90s in Colombia and the United States, dealt with the early days of Escobar's rule of terror in the Medellin cartel, ended with the beginning of the manhunt to find the drug lord after he'd escaped his luxurious and private prison, La Catedral. Considering only a year and a half went by from that point until the time of his death, it seems unlikely that there will be a third season of the show, unless the focus now goes into the aftermath.

While Escobar died in late 1993, the war on drugs survived the kingpin for many years, and the story of the narcos could carry on beyond the remains of the most famous one of the bunch.

"There are any number of things that can happen after. We have not committed to one or the other. Obviously there are a lot of other stories in this world that continue on beyond him," Narcos producer Eric Newman told Slash Film last winter. He then went on to talk further about what the war against drugs looks like now. "You can go to the civil war in Guatemala where American trained soldiers who made their way to Mexico and introduced a new level of violence."