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Ozark

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Generally favorable reviews based on 83 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 155 Ratings

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Ozark

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Ozark

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: July 21, 2017

Summary: Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his wife Wendy (Laura Linney) move from Chicago to The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri in this drama created by Bill Dubuque.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Metascore

69

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56

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2

Critic Reviews

100

Empire Lou Thomas

Apr 29, 2022

Season 4.5 Review: A chilly, thrilling narco saga told from the perspective of the Mob’s money launderer, Ozark deserves its place among the very finest TV takes on American dope, crime and corruption. Read full review

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 19, 2022

Season 4 Review: Ozark remains a show drenched in blue-gray darkness, its exterior iciness in tune with its subjects’ internal frostiness. It continues to feature one of the best ensembles on TV. ... The series has long been a showcase for titanic female presences, and that’s still the case as it establishes its end-game plot. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Jul 5, 2017

Season 1 Review: The series regularly finds a way to highlight the humanity in a story of inhuman acts, and knows when to turn away from an act too vile to witness. Read full review

75

CNN

Brian Lowry

Aug 31, 2018

Season 2 Review: The echoes of "Breaking Bad" have grown louder in Ozark...While by no means a great show, the intense second season cements its status as an eminently binge-worthy one. Read full review

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Consequence

Ines Bellina

Apr 25, 2022

Season 4.5 Review: It might not have been the most intelligent or profound show, but Ozark has never backed off from its dark, nihilistic, and destructive view of middle-class family values, and its final two episodes bring that vision into its ultimate fruition. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Aug 15, 2018

Season 2 Review: Season 2 lacks urgency beside the basic danger of the Byrdes’ continuing their work in order to escape it, and glimpses inside Marty and Wendy’s moral outlooks aren’t compelling enough to make up for the lack of action. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Daniel Fienberg

Aug 17, 2018

Season 2 Review: The second season of Ozark, however, is a 10-episode slog of grinding narrative gears, ominous pronouncements about consequences, affectless violence and a monochromatic aesthetic that left me giggling at its miserable pretensions. Read full review

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User Reviews

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Shervingaga

May 2, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. best show on netflix best storytelling show right now in the world bravo
great cast +great story+ Respect for the Viewer = ozark
I'm excited for the last season hope for great and memorable end… Expand

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KeenWatcher

Nov 22, 2019

I thought this show was a one trick pony on Season 1 but boy was I wrong! If you enjoyed Breaking Bad you’ll probably love this show. I think Jason Bateman plays Marty Byrde masterfully.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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lkalejandro

Apr 8, 2020

Brilliant, many plot twits, saw this season like in 3 days. Can´t wait for season 4 after this crazy ending of season!

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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Nubells

Nov 16, 2021

This is not a Breaking Bad ripoff :)
Walt & Marty should do a spinoff together!

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

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bridgebomb

May 8, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show started off really good but I began to hate certain aspects of the show, with every new episode. There are just too many unrealistic scenarios and they get worse by the episode. Yes, I understand it's fictional, but c'mon. I can't fall in love with Marty Byrd's character, too wussy like. Doesn't really have a backbone or supports his wife in the arrangement they have with the cartel. She's basically uprooted with her kids to a different place, and though she's in on it to a certain extent, she realizes she has to play the game and she's all in on it and he starts to punish her for it. But for me the writing kills me. The scenarios and how they play out it just would never happen, and I found myself saying this too many times. The Snells would long be dead in a real scenario. The brother would never be released or locked up locally after so many criminal offenses. Many things seemed forced.I'm not saying its the most terrible thing I've seen, but I can't saw it's really good. I just don;t want to reveal too much but just too many writing hiccups that just kill the mood.… Expand

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digiorgio23

Jul 24, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Up until halfway through season 3, the series is very very good. I think it all goes downhill when they kill off Ben. And it only gets worse from there. The final episode, where all the bad guys win, is **** terrible and lazy writing. Killing off Ruth was an awful narrative choice, and Jonah killing Mel makes no sense at all. I don't think the ending makes any sense. I think it was lazy and ruthless character assassination. Some plotlines were also explicitly abandoned for no reason, like when Ruth confesses to the sheriff that she killed Javi. The ending of season 4 ruined this show like season 2 of Goliath. The writers went too far in letting the bad guys win. While bad people do win in real life, I didn't sink 30+ hours into Ruth Langmore's story just to see her unceremoniously murdered by a character nobody cares about and who has no ark whatsoever.… Expand

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Mindurbidniss

Sep 6, 2022

What a grand waste of time. Suffers from the same bane most other modern shows do. They never know how to end.

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Series Overview
Season 4.5

73
- Season 4.5 Overview
  Air Date: April 29, 2022
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 4

78
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: January 21, 2022
Season 3

77
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: March 27, 2020
Season 2

59
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 31, 2018
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 21, 2017