‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Part II review: A stunning, inevitable climax

Leonard Cohen sings of having “to draw aside to see the serpent eat its tail” in ‘Last Year’s Man,’ indicating one of the ways to consume this gorgeous adaptation of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal 1967 novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude .

At the end of the feature-length finale, the only thing to do is to go to the beginning and watch the 16 magnificent episodes all over again. The novel also prompts a similar desire — by the time you come to the end of the magic realism masterpiece and “races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”, you want to go right back to the beginning and “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”