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Why glamorising narco culture, on screen and in Sydney's pop-up shop, is wrong

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posted on 2024-07-11, 16:37 authored by Cesar Albarran-TorresCesar Albarran-Torres
The Australian streaming service Stan will open a pop-up restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos in Sydney this week to promote the latest season of the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. Giancarlo Esposito, who plays the restaurant's owner - drug lord Gus Fring - in both shows, will attend the event. Fring uses Los Pollos as a front for his criminal activities and a money laundering operation. The pop up restaurant has previously opened in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. This marketing stunt turns the promotion of a TV show built around a savage reality - the consumption of narcotics in the US and the cartel wars in Mexico - into a pop culture event.

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