Ozark’s final season will conclude this April
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and, Inventing Anna herself, Julia Garner still have some laundry to take care of
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This article discusses the plot of Ozark’s fourth season.
It’s been approximately one month since Ruth Langmore dropped the TikTok sound of the century on Netflix’s Ozark. Since then, Ozark-heads around the nation have bobbed their heads to Ruth’s latest bop, entitled, “You’re going to have to fucking kill me.” It’s a moment that requires at least three taps on the 10-second rewind button.
But that shan’t be the last we hear of Ruth, Wendy, and Marty Byrde (Laura Linney and Jason Bateman). Ozark, the money-laundering Breaking Bad clone that could, wraps up its four-season run this April, and we’re not expecting a happy ending.
When we last saw Ruth, she had just discovered the body of her cousin Wyatt (Charlie Tahan) after a visit from Javi (Alfonso Herrera). Despite Marty and Wendy’s futile attempts to calm her down, she stormed off like a one-woman cartel-wrecking machine. Or she might be Javi’s next victim. The things that guy picked up in business school in Chicago.
However, the log-line from Netflix hints at some more problems coming their way.
Marty and Wendy are rid of Helen and climb to the top of Navarro’s empire. They find another opportunity to get out of the Ozarks but some past sins won’t stay buried and the most dangerous threats come from blood.
They should’ve called this show “The Weird Quiet Couple That Makes Bad Situations Worse.”
Netflix did provide us with a bit of a tease for the upcoming season, which focuses on a post-scream Ruth. While the narration comes from Ruth’s “I’m a cursed Langmore” speech from season two, her monologue plays over images teasing the return of Omar Navarro (Felix Solis) and the cookie jar version of Ben for the final seven episodes.
Will someone “fucking kill” Ruth? Will Marty and Wendy Byrde ever fly to safety? And where the heck is Zeke? God, we hope that baby is ok.
Ozark’s final episodes premiere on Netflix on April 29.
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Is everyone forgetting the opening scene of Season 4, where the Byrde family is, seemingly in a flash-forward, happily driving away from the Ozarks and their car flips? It seems like they’re destined to survive and out-maneuver all the dangerous people they’ve been dealing with only to be done in by a random accident.
You mean the “O’Doyle rules” scene?
Yea, it was such a jolting open I’m surprised people are forgetting it. I’m guessing a person or two will survive it, likely the kids, although it’s probably be a little more appropriate (although extremely dark) if it was just Marty.
I’ve never seen it. Does that count as forgetting?
I watch the show because I like me some trashy pseudo-prestige TV but yes, I did forget that. In fact I barely ever remember anything about what I just watched at all when I finish an Ozark episode except that everything was really moody and blue.
Isn’t Zeke in the car with her?Anyway, holy shit that was an ending. Poor Wyatt, but I’m not sure what he thought was going to happen marrying a woman who was going up against a Mexican cartel. Alone.
I was kinda sad that Darlene didn’t get the head shot.
He probably wanted her to hurt for a few seconds. Even after she was shot, I briefly held out hope he’d let Wyatt go to deliver his warning, maybe with one in the shoulder.
I’d have appreciated a shotgun blast that launched her out the window.
Not just the cartel—she shot the leader of the mob too.
Julia Roberts is a feisty small-town lawyer who uses her magnificent breasts to stand up to the Mexican cartel!
Wyatt has to be the most weak willed, delusional person on the show. I want to feel bad for him, but he had every chance to dip out, but instead chose to stay. If he didn’t think violence would ever come to him while with Darlene, that just proves how delusional he really was, because even a simpleton could see he was going to go down with her.
Agreed. But he also had zero guideposts for how to live a life outside of what the Langmores had always been. Ruth was the only one who encouraged him to do anything more with his life but her circumstances didn’t exactly make for the best role modeling.
True that, he has had nothing but b ad influences in his life, though Three seems be to pretty well adjusted all things said. Darlene was like a mother figure to him (why they had to sleep together, I will never know).
Seriously – she could be marginally charismatic when she wanted to be, but 99% of the time looked like something that just shambled out of the woods in a horror movie. I don’t know how they lit her to make her eyes so black with one little pinprick of light all the time, but it was freaky as hell. How he would find her sexually appealing is beyond me, and was a weak point in the plot IMO. He could have gone to live with her as a mother figure, without the romantic element.His decision to leave school at least made some sense – he’d never been around anyone who valued or benefitted financially from education, then sees Ruth making bank running scams for the Byrdes.
What’s the program about?
spring break in a midwestern lake town.
*actually Georgia
uhh , what?
Its actually filmed mostly in Georgia.
right, but the op asked what the program was about.
I was just making a (admittedly sad) joke.
An unhappily married couple and their children are put to a harrowing test when everything in the world turns blue.
[shrieking] [far as I can tell.]
I feel they did Wendy dirty this season with her miscalculating things, but I think they are trying to draw some parallels between her and how Darlene ended up the way she did.I do appreciate that they know how involved the government/big pharm is in maintaining the war on drugs. They are the big bads in the end.
I feel like this show is going to end with Marty & Wendy dead, Omar & Javi dead, and a new empire being built up by Ruth, Jonah & Zeke. Charlotte will inherit the casino or something equally unimportant.
I’m getting the feeling that either Marty will kill Wendy or Wendy will kill Marty. It really seems that they are heading in that direction.Or if they wanted to end it in really cliched fashion, Marty and Wendy take over the cartel after a near-death situation.
It seems like they have to die somehow, but even as I type it I’m skeptical that Marty dies just because he’s proven to be the unkillable cockroach up to this point. But killing each other would be fitting, since they’ve been slowly doing it for years anyway. If Wendy lives, she’ll end up being governor or senator or something along those lines. I really do think they’re setting Ruth up for whatever version of the hero’s edit this show is capable of though.
Ruth I think is a near certainty to survive, unless the rumored spinoff with Garner is a prequel (I sure as hell hope not—I hate prequels).
Marty is going into the witness relocation program and they will put him in a family of real estate developers in Southern California. This show is a prequel to Arrested Development.
“I’ve made a huge mistake.”
Holy shit.
You know what? After years of people speculating that Whatley was Walt in witness protection, it would be quite the fanservice to link Marty to Michael.
I stopped watching after the first season and just pretended they were dead, because that’s what would happen in real life if you play drug dealer and fuck up on consignment with a cartel.
That’s about a year earlier than I expected. Good job to Netflix for not dragging this last season out as long as possible.
I need lemonade
I really liked the first part of this final season, and hope it finishes up in a satisfying way.I know some people think it is rather unrealistic (and/or too blue), but I am just a sucker for combining action thrillers with family drama (pours one out for The Americans). And I personally felt like the pressure of the situation finally cracking the Byrdes in an unfixable way—or so it seemed, I am a little nervous about what that road accident scene was supposed to mean—was setting up a fitting series conclusion.