El Señor de los Cielos (2013)
El Señor de los Cielos is a 2013 Spanish-language crime series created by Luis Zelkowicz and Mariano Calasso. It stars Rafael Amaya, Miguel Garza and Leonardo Daniel.
The 1990s belong to Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the Juarez Cartel boss who moved cocaine by the planeload and earned the nickname Lord of the Skies. This Telemundo super series, fronted by Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas, tracks a trafficker's rise through violence, bribery, and the laundering of hundreds of millions across borders. It is narco drama on a grand scale: shifting alliances, rival cartels, and the law always somewhere behind. Created by Luis Zelkowicz from an idea by Mariano Calasso and Andres Lopez, the series became one of Spanish-language television's biggest crime sagas.
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What is El Señor de los Cielos about?
The 1990s belong to Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the Juarez Cartel boss who moved cocaine by the planeload and earned the nickname Lord of the Skies. This Telemundo super series, fronted by Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas, tracks a trafficker's rise through violence, bribery, and the laundering of hundreds of millions across borders. It is narco drama on a grand scale: shifting alliances, rival cartels, and the law always somewhere behind. Created by Luis Zelkowicz from an idea by Mariano Calasso and Andres Lopez, the series became one of Spanish-language television's biggest crime sagas.
When was El Señor de los Cielos released?
El Señor de los Cielos was released on 15 April 2013.
How many episodes does El Señor de los Cielos have?
El Señor de los Cielos has 807 episodes across 10 seasons.
Who made El Señor de los Cielos?
El Señor de los Cielos was created by Luis Zelkowicz, Mariano Calasso and Juan Manuel Andrade.
Where can I watch El Señor de los Cielos?
El Señor de los Cielos is available on DirecTV On Demand, Hulu, NBC, Peacock, Peacock Premium and Spectrum On Demand.
Where to watch El Señor de los Cielos
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Hulu, NBC, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Spectrum On Demand, fuboTV
Watch free: NBC, The Roku Channel
Cast
- Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas "El Señor de los Cielos"
- Miguel Garza as Paul
- Leonardo Daniel as Don Alfredo
- Guillermo Quintanilla as Isidro Robles
- Mauricio Ochmann as José María "Chema" Venegas Mendivil
- Carmen Aub as Rutila Casillas Letrán / Ruth Mendez
- Lisa Owen as Doña Alba Casillas
- Fernanda Castillo as Mónica Robles Urdieta Vda. de Casillas
- Alejandro López as El Súper Javi
- Jesús More as Omar Terán Robles "Presidente 64"
- Robinson Díaz as Don Miltón Jiménez "El Cabo"
- Iván Arana as Ismael Casillas Guerra
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A few thoughts on El Señor de los Cielos
The pull is empire, money, and the cost of both. Mario Puzo's The Godfather and Coppola's film remain the template for crime as dynasty. Max Payne and Sin City trade in the same neon-soaked, bullet-scarred underworld. And Springsteen's Nebraska gives voice to the desperate men on crime's lowest, bloodiest rungs.
Cartel kingpins rising and falling on TV
El Senor de los Cielos charts Aurelio Casillas moving cocaine by the planeload while the law trails a step behind. These series follow the same arc of ambition and blood: a dealer climbs to the top, buys everyone in reach, and learns that no empire built on trafficking holds forever. Big money, shifting loyalties, inevitable fall.
Spanish-language narco telenovelas with women at the center
Telemundo turned the narco saga into event television, and these Spanish-language series push the form further by handing power to women navigating cartel worlds. Like El Senor de los Cielos, they mix melodrama with real menace: romance, betrayal and survival play out along trafficking routes where one wrong move ends everything.
Organized-crime sagas across film and books
Strip away the cartel setting and El Senor de los Cielos is a classic rise-and-fall crime saga. These films, novels and shows trace the same pull of family, loyalty and power corrupting everyone it touches. From mob patriarchs to street kingpins, they show how the business of crime rewrites the people who run it.
Crime told through games you control
El Senor de los Cielos hooks you on choices with deadly stakes, and these games hand you the wheel. You interrogate suspects, cut deals and live with the fallout as noir and crime plots bend around your decisions. For anyone who wants to step inside the underworld instead of just watching it unfold.