Prófugos ("Fugitives") is a HBO Latin American original series filmed and located in Chile by Chilean actors. The series is about a group of men who are involved in a failed drug operation that forcing them to escape from police and the rival drug sellers.
The series had a successful reception and started a second season in September 2013. In 2014, one of the main actors confirmed a third season is on the way.
[Profugos] contains examples of:
- Action Girl: Kika Ferragut and Irma and Laura by the first season finale.
- Alliterative Name: Mario Moreno.
- Anyone Can Die: Several dies in the course of season one, including one of the protagonist, Salamanca.
- Ascended Extra: Francisco Melo's characters appears briefly in season one like the president of a political party. In season two he is the President of Chile and plays a major plotline.
- Badass Family: The Ferraguts.
- The Cartel: The four main protagonists were hired by the Ferragut cartel, led by Kika Ferragut. This cartel has a rivalry with the Aguilera cartel.
- Cold-Blooded Torture}: Moreno loves this. Especially shocking was the episode when he tortured to el Chele, in a revenge for his wife's murderer.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Seen in various of the characters in the series.
- Everyone Has Standards: Inversion when Moreno tried to kill el Chele's daughter.
- Fugitive Arc: The whole series. It's right there on the title.
- The Most Wanted: As the title says, wanted from the police as the mobs for equal.