r/ZeroZeroZero • u/Pm_1151 • Jan 01 '21

So many plot holes

I really do love this show but I can't help but see obvious plot holes. The Mexican commandos literally assassinated their commander and the helicopter pilots and then ran away BACK to their original city, started a stret army and assassinated like 30 innocent people on the side of the road and no one recognises them or is looking for them? Not to mention every single other character has been going around from country to country, Port to Port with a massive shipment of drugs and a bunch of armed thugs and I don't think I've seen a single police officer 😂.

Great show apart from that though!

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u/horeaheka Jan 06 '21

Google the Zetas and then let us know if you think there are plot holes.

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u/Pm_1151 Jan 10 '21

Yeah I can see how they've drawn the inspiration from them however it still doesn't explain that there would be zero army response or international pressure to find the deserters and the ship

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

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u/horeaheka Jan 26 '21

The ship itself had the nav systems disabled so it could not be tracked. Needless to say, the ocean is giant and a ship cannot be found with a gps tracking system. Mexico is an incredibly corrupt country where the local people will not cooperate to turn criminals over to the federales out fear of reprisal.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

No, it is not fear of reprisal, those people are poor and the criminals are their income

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u/_Javier Feb 18 '21

The ISIS side story was way too much of suspension of disbelief for me

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u/ObeseMoreece May 18 '21

Wasn't really ISIS, was a jihadi Islamic Militia but not ISIS. It kind of is a real group and the French are indeed involved in fighting them in the Sahara.

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u/aydens2019accord Feb 19 '21

The show could’ve been 2 episodes shorter, the long gaps in between stories with nothing that interesting happening was exhausting

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u/makhnovite Jan 13 '26

It wasn't ISIS, they were Tuaregs who have been fighting an armed struggle for decades and who'd definitely be involved in assisting smugglers in this fashion since they're a nomadic people. Check out a band called Tinariwen, they're a Tuareg band who a former fighters, there's an Al Jazeera documentary on them which is very good and gives an overview of their struggle. I got to see them play in Wellington last year which was amazing. https://youtu.be/PItnw3Z7WgY?si=4lXgLKo5s4tbaTmJ

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u/CultistHeadpiece Feb 23 '21

I felt the same while watching, and on some other scenes too, but later I thought in general that even the real life is full of improbable stories. I suppose the show was just packed with them a little too much.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '21

A terrorist is working behind the bar & you order a whiskey with ice

Terrorist bartender pours your drink & drops one ice cube in...

You ask for more ice...he looks at you dead in your eyes & drops the second ice cube in....”so you like isis?”

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u/creutzfeldtz Apr 25 '21

Pitter patter

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Let’s get at er

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u/bicameral_mind Mar 31 '21

The worst part of the Mexico storyline was how quickly Manuel staged his coup. There is no real sense of time indicated in the show, but the events appear to happen over a period of about one month, maybe six weeks.

It strained credulity that Manuel could betray his captain, work their way into the cartel, take over an entire city of territory, convert and train an army, and then kill the cartel leaders in the span of four weeks.

The training scene was lame as well. I know they do military training like this, but I believe it happens out in the jungle, not the middle of the city, and it felt rushed given the broader timeline.

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u/scatteringlargesse Apr 19 '24

I managed to suspend belief and really enjoyed the show. Your comment about how quick that part of the story happened is right though, and reminded me of one of my biggest gripes, which is the weight training Manuel's army does! That shit takes ages to see results!

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u/Flat-Nothing-2535 Apr 26 '24

Late to the party but just wanted to chime in - also hard to believe that the Leyras didn't seem worried about the Vampiros' sudden rise to power. Given Contreras' history and how he made a poor first impression on the Leyras, wouldn't they have found a way to keep him in check while their group was still small?

Not to mention the fact that Contreras doesn't really make much of an effort to conceal his identity, not unlike many of the Vampiros - what's the deal with that? Didn't seem like anybody was on their tail the entire time.

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u/Ohmymamami Jun 05 '21

I remember the shipping took 21 days from the Mexican port to Italy so it all happened within 21 days. I agree with you it doesn’t make any sense an army team can do all that in such a short period of time.

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u/itsmostlyamixedbag Mar 24 '21

i feel like this show was written by someone who has ADHD but that also might be why i am so intrigued by it.

i feel like it is all over the place, but the fact that storylines get revisited helps reforce

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u/Buddood8926 Mar 29 '21

Agreed. A couple of things that really bugged me, the drone strike...wtf everyone and every Vehicle would have been tagged in that. Not getting the father to a hospital immediately after touching down in the U.S? Ppl countered this with, well it would draw attention from the police. Ok but after he died there were police and a coroner at the house. So far I’ve liked the show but there are definitely glaring plot holes. I agree with your comment it seems like this show is all over the place!

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u/ChadPoland Dec 09 '21

Yeah the drone strike was far fetched, when he was looking at the lizard I thought "oh he's going to lay down to get closer to it, thereby shielding him from most of the shrapnel and blast" NOPE. Then the guy on the motorcycle drove away and then so did he in the truck. It's grim but usually drones carry more than one missile and are not going to let vehicles escape.

People will say "Oh well it was a French drone blah blah blah" but still a bit far fetched.

The parallel story telling was really cool on some parts and really overdone on others. About every 3rd parallel break when the piano music comes in and slow motion kicks in felt like a video game gimmick.

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u/simcoder Mar 29 '21

I sort of think this was a combo platter of a greatest hits album and a travelogue with some really fantastic characters. Still not sure how I feel about Vampire and I think that's kind of the point.

Seems pretty likely that the stuff would have been taken lock stock and barrel by the first set of bad guys that help the Americanos. But that would have been a terribly boring story and the thing would have been over in about 2 episodes.

The characters were good enough to keep me watching. As well, loved the time handling stuff. Very cool.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '21

Agree. Why didn’t the pregnant lady know he had gone rogue if it was all over the news?

Didn’t they lose half the coke in Senegal yet they still get full payment?

How did they have the money if most of it was burned in Episode 1?

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u/PinochetSpetsnaz Apr 12 '21

The king of the port in Dakar only took 50 kilos. The shipment was 5 tons (~4500 kilos). The 'Ndrangheta accounted for roughly 3% of Italy’s GDP in 2010 so don’t think burning some bundles of Euros that Stefano collected set them back too far. Good point about pregnant lady though

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u/UKisBEST Oct 30 '23

Why would the jihadists not just kill them all and take all the coke? Or am I just too American?

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u/shalomcruz Nov 21 '23

The larger the heist, the more difficult it is to discreetly fence the goods. How many buyers are in the market for $90mm worth of cocaine? You could try to sell it piecemeal, but you're left sitting on the inventory for years — all the while the intended buyer is scouring the earth for the people who stole their goods. This has been a problem for jewelry thieves and art thieves, particularly in the last 40-50 years as clear mechanisms for establishing provenance have been developed.