OZARK [A Netflix Original Series | Season 3 | 2019??]

I wish Netflix had more hits
Than misses when it comes to their shows
Cause when they are on fire
They are on fire
Ozarks could compete with any network show in right now.
How many episodes is season 2???? :nerd:
 
‘Ozark’: What to Remember Before Watching Season 2

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Jason Bateman in "Ozark." Credit: Jackson Davis/Netflix

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/arts/television/ozark-season-1-recap.html

From about halfway through the first episode of “Ozark,” the financial planner Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his family have tiptoed the razor’s edge, surviving certain death through guile, ingenuity and plain old luck. After learning that his partner embezzled $8 million in Mexican cartel money, Marty first slips the noose by successfully pitching the cartel on Lake of the Ozarks as a new haven for their money-laundering needs. From there, the Byrdes are given just a few days to liquidate $8 million in assets, leave Chicago and set up shop in Missouri — where, under threat of execution, they have three months to launder all that cash.

And that’s only the beginning of their troubles.

To get ready for Season 2, which drops Friday on Netflix, it’s best to think about all the parties putting the squeeze on the Byrdes as they stake out investment opportunities in the Ozarks. There’s the cartel, which is monitoring them closely. There are local threats from small-time operators like the Langmores and big-time heroin dealers like the Snells. There’s the F.B.I., which quietly works to ensnare Marty. And then there’s the Byrde family itself, which has to survive its own crippling dysfunction.

Let’s break it down, threat by threat:

The Cartel
Omar Navarro’s cartel is the second-biggest in Mexico, and its willingness to assert its power from afar is made clear in the first episode, when the cartel boss Camino Del Rio (Esai Morales) has four of Marty’s associates executed for embezzling its money and nearly kills Marty, too. Marty’s Hail Mary pitch to bring their laundering operation to Lake of the Ozarks — which, as he is keen emphasize, gun to head, has more coastline than California — is just enough to persuade Del to spare his life. But it also puts him and his wife, Wendy (Laura Linney), as well as their teenage children, Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner), in immediate jeopardy.

Del tosses Wendy’s not-so-secret lover from the balcony of his luxury apartment partly to keep her and the kids from bailing on Marty, and the cartel micromanages their affairs thereafter.

The Authorities
The rogue F.B.I. agent Roy Petty (Jason Butler Harner) poked around in Marty’s business all season. Going undercover, he initiates a clandestine sexual affair with the closeted Russ Langmore (Marc Menchaca) — and promises him the fanciest bait-and-tackle business the Ozarks have ever seen — as means to flip him into doing his bidding. The operation goes embarrassingly awry, which will have Petty seeking redemption. Meanwhile, the local sheriff, Jon Nix (Robert C. Trevelier), seems to know that the Snells have him outgunned, so the Byrdes get the bulk of his side eye.

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From left, Skylar Gaertner, Laura Linney and Sofia Hublitz in "Ozark." Credit: Jackson Davis/Netflix

The Family
The Byrdes are doing great! Or as great as a family in danger from a violent cartel can be. Back in Chicago, Marty and Wendy were keeping secrets from each other but the constant fear of gruesome destinies for them and their children have unified them, like an extreme form of couples therapy. It’s a fragile bond — Marty and Wendy still have trust issues, Charlotte is still moody and unpredictable, Jonah is still a gun-crazy weirdo — but they enter Season 2 together. And alive.

Other Areas of Concern
Rachel Garrison (Jordana Spiro): Owner of the The Blue Cat Lodge, the first business Marty finds suitable for investment. Rachel knows Marty is been cooking the books. She also discovers part of the $50 million in cartel money he’s stashed in the walls.

Buddy ****r (Harris Yulin): The Byrdes got an excellent deal on a house. The only hitch is that it comes with the owner, Buddy ****r, an ornery, terminally ill man who lives in the basement. Buddy has gotten young Jonah into guns, but he also stepped up and blew away a henchman who was stalking Wendy and the kids. So, all in all, an ally.

Sam Dermody (Kevin L. Johnson): Through this dimwitted realtor and mama’s boy, Wendy has gotten a foot into the real estate business, where she can pitch in and launder money by flipping properties. She also convinces Sam’s mother, Eugenia (Sharon Blackwood), to invest her life savings with Marty just before Eugenia gets run over by a truck.

Tuck (Evan George Vourazeris): A mentally disabled friend and purchaser of firearms for the 13-year-old Jonah.
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nawghtyhare nawghtyhare season 2 is 10 eps
 
So far Netflix has 2 hits IMO.

Ozarks and Stranger Things.

For a network to have 2 hits is impressive.

But the amount of content Netflix has put out compared to network tv is :sick:

They don't need to put out this much trash!
 
kingkoopa said:
So far Netflix has 2 hits IMO.

Ozarks and Stranger Things.

For a network to have 2 hits is impressive.

But the amount of content Netflix has put out compared to network tv is :sick:

They don't need to put out this much trash!
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Add Narcos & On my block
 
House of Cards was pretty good, sucks we'll never see how it ends but I think I might wait up yo watch the first episode of the new season tonight.
 
kingkoopa said:
So far Netflix has 2 hits IMO.

Ozarks and Stranger Things.

For a network to have 2 hits is impressive.

But the amount of content Netflix has put out compared to network tv is :sick:

They don't need to put out this much trash!
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stranger things, ozark, narcos, black mirror if that counts, house of cards, bojack (never seen it but it gets really good reviews), peaky blinders if that counts, master of none, OITNB (not for me but it's a pretty big show), certain shows from the marvel line

i'd say those are all hits. all really popular and well-received and probably on the highest tier of their shows
 
Was able to download the first 5 episodes of season 2 on Netflix so I can watch on my flight this weekend.

Locking in 8)8)8)
 
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