The Byrdes and their teenage kids Charlotte and Jonah look like, and mostly are, an ordinary family with ordinary lives. Except that husband/father Marty, a Chicago financial advisor, also serves as the top money-launderer for Mexico's second-largest drug cartel. When things go awry, he must uproot his family from the skyscrapers of Chicago and relocate to the lazy lake region of the Missouri Ozarks.
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- Richard Scott LongSeptember 18, 2025Best series i have ever watched! Hated to see it end! Bateman is excellent.
- CallumOctober 23, 2025⭐⭐⭐⭐½ (out of 5) Ozark – Money laundering, moral decay, and the slow drowning of good intentions in blue water. “Ozark” is what happens when Breaking Bad trades the desert for a lake and replaces chemistry with finance. It’s a study in quiet desperation — a family dragged into the underbelly of crime not by ego, but by circumstance — and it somehow makes spreadsheets and shell companies feel like instruments of doom. If Breaking Bad is Warhammer 40K — brutal, relentless, and fuelled by chaos — and Weeds is My Little Pony, suburban mischief with pastel optimism, then Ozark sits somewhere in between as the BoJack Horseman of crime dramas: darkly funny, deeply tragic, and painfully self-aware. It offers moments of dry humour and absurdity that almost let you breathe… right before the next betrayal or moral compromise drags you back under. Where Breaking Bad is about transformation, Ozark is about erosion — watching ordinary people crumble one moral grain at a time. Jason Bateman’s calm pragmatism and Laura Linney’s cold determination make for a compelling portrait of partnership under pressure, their performances grounding the absurdity in chilling realism. Bleak yet beautiful, sardonic yet sincere, Ozark thrives in the tension between logic and lunacy. It’s a story of survival where every choice is wrong, every success temporary, and every smile a negotiation.
