Blow

Appeals to viewers drawn to stylish rise-and-fall stories about reckless ambition, criminal glamour, and the personal costs of chasing wealth.

Tone

frenetic, bittersweet, bleak

Payoff

catharsis, heartbreak

Pacing

brisk

Intensity

intense

Structure

linear

Themes

ambition, drug trafficking, wealth and corruption, addiction, family

Setting

late twentieth century, counterculture-era America and international trafficking networks