But it was Ozark's cast that made it more than that. They had a new home, new life, and a permanent death threat by the time you queued up Episode Two.Īll of this is, you know, ripe for a prime time network TV slot. This was no slow-burning character study of Walter White, instead Ozark immediately threw an already-enflamed family into the shit. While we were living in the boom times for capital-P Prestige crime shows, it was clear that Ozark was different. He worms his way out of trouble when he hatches a scheme-with a gun pointed at his head, mind you-to launder money out of the Ozarks for the underworld organization. To cut to the chase of a superb pilot episode that includes a man getting thrown from a Chicago high-rise, Marty unwittingly crosses a cartel while doing business at his accounting firm. If you're unfamiliar with Ozark, the series starts in Chicago, with the (seemingly!) happy family: husband and wife Marty (Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney), plus their kids, Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner). But if you think Ozark is merely another predictable crime romp from the annals of the Netflix algorithm, or wrote it off before it even debuted, you've been missing out on one of the best TV shows in recent memory. In part, this is because it simply isn't Breaking Bad. ![]() ![]() But it will likely never be remembered with even half the reverence that Breaking Bad receives today. And.it felt a little familiar! COURTESY OF NETFLIX In the summer of 2017, we saw the first trailer for a new Netflix crime drama that showed a white suburban family getting caught up in guns and drugs and money-laundering and other domestic bullshit. While there are hoards of fans waiting to vicariously money-launder through Marty Byrd later this week, you still get the feeling that-like Byrd himself, paying dues for a sin he committed years ago- Ozark might never outrun those initial comparisons. Show-runner Chris Mundy decided to split Ozark's final season into two parts, with Part One debuting on January 21st, and Part Two likely coming later this spring. This week marks the beginning of the end for Jason Bateman's Ozark. The problem is when you have no money, you’ve got to think.” “When you get Breaking Bad, it’s amazing, but then you get Ozark, which is a rip-off of that … It’s unfortunate, right now, there’s so much money, and so little ideas. “ like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to watch this?'” McQueen said last year. Everything We Know About 'Ozark' Season 4, Part 2īack then, seemingly as heated as Gus Fring himself, Breaking Bad heads wasted no time in calling out what they thought was a blatant rip-off-a chorus that would ring out for the next three seasons of the show.
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