Ozark: 20 Things You Missed In The Final Season

Pretty soon smart middle class white guys getting themselves in over their head in the criminal world by overestimating their intelligence will become a genre. For the Jason Bateman led ensemble crime drama on Netflix, the smartness comes in the form of a seemingly mild mannered financial accounting wizard who assumed that he could take his big city ways to a podunk part of the Ozarks and launder money with no one being the wiser. What Bateman’s character Marty Byrde didn’t take into account was that there would already be a fully realized and functioning underworld of crime already in place that neither wanted nor appreciated the level of financial criminality that Marty brought to the table. The perfect recipe for a clever person to overestimate their own intelligence and dig themselves in deeper and deeper as they run around putting out fires set by the people around him who don’t have his temperament. For four seasons the Byrde family has been jumping from frying pan to fire to bigger fire to just a big ol’ cauldron of lava. Over the course of the series we’ve seen the effectiveness of Marty talking his way out of things and right into even bigger problems as he is surrounded by chaos agents. With the series finally at its close we’ll look at the detail of the second part of the fourth season and how we got here. What’s your favorite detail from the show? Let us know in the comments and while you’re there be sure to like and subscribe for the latest content straight to your inbox.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:38 Bobcats
01:56 Nas
03:16 Rebecca Luker
03:57 Splitting The Season
04:39 Location Location Location
05:17 Series Ending
06:08 Ben
06:49 Arrested Development
07:49 Desert Duty
08:40 Canadian Football
09:32 Hometown
09:58 Director Bateman
10:30 New Balance
10:59 Marty Byrdes Restaurant
11:34 Blue
12:04 Money Laundering 101
12:45 Hand Double
13:29 Symbolism
13:53 It’s In The Name
14:10 Math Error

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Written by: Ryan Carbrey
Narrated by: Grant Kellett
Edited by: Ben Bromley

[ScreenRant]

What would you have done differently in the final season?

[ugoeze]

Screen Rant: “Ruth has lost the last person on Earth she legitimately cares for, her cousin, Wyatt.”

Three: “Am I a joke to you?”

[musicmadelarry]

I didn't even know I was watching the last episode when I finished this series. Loved it, but felt unfinished. Would've liked it if Ruth had a happy ending and if Wendy died.

[kcush]

Surprised you didn’t mention Veronica Falcon, the actress who played Camila, plays nearly the exact same character in Queen of the South where she was also named Camila! IMO she was the “Ruth Langmore” of Queen of the South… wasn’t supposed to be the main character but completely DOMINATED the whole show with the same presence as Ruth.

[snakewhitcher]

There are 3 bullet hole decals on the door to Ruth's trailer that are in the same configuration as the bullet holes Crazy 8 put through the door of the RV in Breaking Bad.

[callmeb.o.b.]

Something I noticed and thought was funny involved Frank Cosgrove Jr.. The next time we see him after his "accident" with Darlene Snell, he has installed a top/roof to his sports car...since he didn't have one when he lost "something" previously. It's a very subtle thing but made me genuinely laugh when I noticed it.

[jppotato]

Enjoyed the season up until the final episode. It felt unfinished. It honestly feels like the story could continue for another season funny enough

[teejaydee]

Wasn’t the biggest fan of the ending, but definitely enjoyed the journey! Loved all the cameos from older cast members!

[kevinwashington]

The last episode seemed rushed....like a phone call happened and someone said" ok wrap it up".

[mwebb]

Ruth would have turned tail and run upon seeing a cartel suv in her driveway!! She basically committed suicide. Also, Ruth blowing off Marty’s urgent warnings about using the casino to launder money makes no sense either. She murdered her cousin’s cartel murderer. She knows they are merciless. Ruth’s final storyline made no sense.

[evanssego]

I remember in the first or second episode Marty was trying to sell the minivan and kept on saying about what a high safety rating the van had. It was fitting that in the finale, the minivan saved their lives.

[goofparty]

everyone said it felt unfinished, but it had to end somewhere. I think the ending was great. the way the PI says “you can’t always win” and then they kill him. it just confirms that they DO always win. and it was a pretty good scene to represent that

[ceralee]

I absolutely ADORE the character of Ruth. Having grown up in a white trash family myself, you really do spend your adult life running from who you grew up as, and even with education, friends, moving the the burbs, the house and all that BS let one woman start smack....and you realize, you are still that girl from that trailer park. Me, when I was younger I tried to get away from who I was. Now I embrace the toughness, the hardness growing up poor, growing up on AFDC paying with monopoly money and having ppl look at us, make comments and treat us like garbage, you have no option but to be rough. But as you get older you embrace that person.

[IKEMENOsakaman]

I think my main gripe with Part 2 is that the episodes don't have this sense of finality to it. Things are left unresolved. And it looked like they were building something up for the next season, but they just remembered they were in the final season and ended it abruptly.

[michaelr.]

Wendy's description of his unmedicated state to Ruth is breathtaking and SPOT ON. I am Type 1, and that scene should be shown to new families and new patients.

[jjwallnutts]

Spoilers:

Why couldn’t Wendy eat a bullet instead of Ruth?!?
…that is all.

[chanceleblanc]

Ending could have been better for sure. I am not sure they knew how to end the show imo

[fiona-znln]

i love how many of these just blatantly aren’t related to the final season

[heelmoxley]

I wanna see a handful of spin offs. A number of families still with stories to tell. Navarro, Langmore, Snell, Cosgrove

[Wonkzzilla]

What was the point of showing their car wreck at the start of the season?