'OZARK' - New Netflix Crime/Thriller Series!

[JTM45]

Anyone else watched this ?

I've watched four episodes so far and it's really good so far. Highly recommended.

[Crimson Dynamo]

on episode 4 and really enjoying it

This drama series stars Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde, a financial planner who
relocates his family from Chicago to a summer resort community in the Ozarks.
With wife Wendy and their two kids in tow, Marty is on the move after a money-
laundering scheme goes wrong, forcing him to pay off a substantial debt to a
Mexican drug lord in order to keep his family safe. While the Byrdes' fate hangs
in the balance, the dire circumstances force the fractured family to reconnect.


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[user104658]

It's like a cross between Breaking Bad and Schitt's Creek.

I couldn't get into it tho.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If only the mum was a bit hotter but i like it and i like to see and learn about this part of Missouri i dont know about

[Niamh.]

I watched a couple of episodes of it a while back but I couldn't get into it

[Crimson Dynamo]

:oh:

he has to launder like $8 million in this back water place or his family die so he has to contact all these cooky places to take over so her can wash money - like a strip joint and realter, meanwhile he is in cahoots with a local gang redneck family and its a tense relationship

all this and try to be an all American family in this tourist resort

very like breaking bad as it goes but as TS says with a sprinkle if Schits Creek

Its ideal for Cherie

[user104658]

I think the problem is that the dad isn't likeable at all... like from what I saw he has few redeeming features as a human being but is also boring so you sort of... don't care if he fails and gets killed by organised criminals. Like that wouldn't be a terrible ending.

He plays more or less the same character as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development, except the whole point of the character in that was that he was the boring not-that-likeable straightman to juxtapose all of the completely weird characters (basically everyone else). And... what made Breaking Bad somehow work was that Walter White is oddly charismatic and compelling whilst being a selfish criminal arsehole and a terrible husband/dad. He's a completely awful person and yet you can't take your eyes off him.

He's a decent actor but this show needed a more compelling lead IMO.

[Niamh.]

I think the problem is that the dad isn't likeable at all... like from what I saw he has few redeeming features as a human being but is also boring so you sort of... don't care if he fails and gets killed by organised criminals. Like that wouldn't be a terrible ending.

He plays more or less the same character as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development, except the whole point of the character in that was that he was the boring not-that-likeable straightman to juxtapose all of the completely weird characters (basically everyone else). And... what made Breaking Bad somehow work was that Walter White is oddly charismatic and compelling whilst being a selfish criminal arsehole and a terrible husband/dad. He's a completely awful person and yet you can't take your eyes off him.

He's a decent actor but this show needed a more compelling lead IMO.

Absolutely, and the way his character changes so gradually but so completely from ep1 to the finale and all the inbetweens as well was fantastic, he went from sympathetic to vile piece of **** gangstar to pathetic, sorry excuse for a man trying to make up for what he can't possibly make up for. Ugh I miss Breaking Bad

[Crimson Dynamo]

Stop comparing my new series to BB

:fist:

[Niamh.]

Stop comparing my new series to BB

:fist:

Anything remotely comparable will fail so badly (Have you watched BB btw?)

[Crimson Dynamo]

Anything remotely comparable will fail so badly (Have you watched BB btw?)

Yes I watched it all

and again the wife could have been a bit hotter

:hmph:

[Niamh.]

Yes I watched it all

Did you watch El Camino?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Did you watch El Camino?

i dont think we have

[Niamh.]

i dont think we have

It's a film about the aftermath, basically all about what happens to Jesse, picks up exactly where BB finished, it's really good

[Crimson Dynamo]

It's a film about the aftermath, basically all about what happens to Jesse, picks up exactly where BB finished, it's really good

I was never that fond of Jesse tbh

[Niamh.]

I was never that fond of Jesse tbh

ah he was great, one of the purest characters in it

Mike and Saul were probably my favourites though

[bots]

just finished watching the 3rd series of Ozark, it's brilliant

[Cherie]

:oh:

he has to launder like $8 million in this back water place or his family die so he has to contact all these cooky places to take over so her can wash money - like a strip joint and realter, meanwhile he is in cahoots with a local gang redneck family and its a tense relationship

all this and try to be an all American family in this tourist resort

very like breaking bad as it goes but as TS says with a sprinkle if Schits Creek

Its ideal for Cherie

Watched about 4 eps ages ago but it didnt draw me in, might give it another try

[Jessica.]

I'm on season 2 of this, really enjoying it.

[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1481394408096370690

[Josy]

I am obsessed with this

[bots]

its a great series