Show of the week: Sins of My Father

To most of the world, Pablo Escobar, onetime head of Colombia’s Medellín drug cartel, was a ruthless international crime lord. But to the thousands of poor whose housing he paid for, he was the “Robin Hood of Colombia,” and he seems to have been a loving family man to his son and wife, who have lived in exile since he was killed by police in 1993. Drawing on never-before-shared family archives—as well as Escobar’s son’s own interviews with some of his father’s victims—this film is a colorful portrait of a man of extraordinary wealth and brazenness. Monday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m., HBO

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