SummaryMarty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) move from Chicago to The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri in this drama created by Bill Dubuque.
SummaryMarty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) move from Chicago to The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri in this drama created by Bill Dubuque.
The violence is stunning, shocking, messy and unexpected. Bateman, who also serves as executive producer, directed four episodes and is a master behind the camera. His work squeezes the suspense in any scene. The locations are both beautiful and sinister, and the show is superbly scored. Ozark will resonate with fans of “Breaking Bad,” although Walter White has little in common with Marty.
i Just finished watching Season 2 and i have to say, it's even better than season 1. It's a great show and should win awards. It's got a great cast with good plots, action, violence, etc... it's totally engrossing. I highly recommend!
It’s very much another desperate man in a desperate situation. Whether he’ll emerge better than Walter White is anyone’s guess. Dubuque, however, makes the journey just as intriguing.
It’s not as good as all-time classics like The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad, but it shares the same enquiring nature: intelligently examining the psychology, sociology and economics that fuel crime.
Enough is happening in Ozark that it's never boring, which sets it apart from Netflix's recent misguided stab at prestige programming, Gypsy. Instead of being predictable, though, Ozark becomes monotonous.
What might have felt like a novel idea 10 or 15 years ago--middle-aged white anti-hero does something terrible to help his family, and only gets pulled in deeper and deeper--is now so tired that it would require sheer brilliance to come out feeling as fresh and untainted as all the money that Marty cleans. And Ozark isn’t up to that challenge.
There's some good acting, but christ is it so stark and severe. I love dark, violent, and depressing shows, but they usually have a bit of comic relief. Not here.
The other problem is that none of the characters are likable in any way. They could all get shot in the back of the head and I'd yawn and watch something else without blinking.
Omg, like usual, the 9s and 10s are blatantly obvious shills. I endured through episode 3 before calling time of death. The main problem is dramatic plausibility. The first episode reveals a horrifying incident of cartel vengeance and subsequent family upheaval but Marty comes away unscathed either physically or psychically/emotionally, just stupid. Also, when you watch/follow a show, you have to like where it's taking you, its visuals, its characters, its settings/environment. This show is all about the criminal life of money laundering, fraud, murder, adultery, and Deliverance-style backwoods rednecks, so that's not an investment of time and attention I want to make. However, the main problem is the writing and character development, the setting/environ could be tolerated if the characters were well written and engaging, but they're just not, they're not realistic and that's a fatal flaw.