Kristen Maldonado, the TV and film critic behind Pop Culture Planet, tells BBC Culture that 'what makes Griselda Blanco's story so interesting is that she's someone who was very prominent in the drug trade industry of the '70s and '80s, but isn't as well-known as her male counterparts – because she was a woman'. Foreign-language films have gone mainstream.Strangelove at 60: The true story behind the ultimate Cold War film Could Lily Gladstone win the Best Actress Oscar?.The show opens with a quote that lets us know that Blanco was even feared by the likes of Pablo Escobar. The Netflix release of Griselda, a fictionalised rendition of the life story of Griselda Blanco, features an unusual character – a ruthless Colombian female drug lord who leveraged her invisibility as an ordinary housewife to command the streets of Miami.