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Positive:
56
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Critic Reviews
Mar 30, 2020
Season 3 Review:
Overall, Ozark Season 3 is still the show you know — there are moments of quietude, gnawing personal conflicts, and, of course, that bluish scenery of this forest-rich landscape — but it's still by far the most stressful and emotionally ravaging stretch of the show yet thanks to its new characters, the increased duplicity afoot in the Byrde house, and, of course, the no-holds-barred drug war going on all the while which eventually makes its way to the Ozarks, too.
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ColliderMar 19, 2020
Season 3 Review:
Those who weren’t crazy about the series to begin with are unlikely to be magically won over—Ozark Season 3 is still very much Ozark—but fans of the series are sure to once again get wrapped up in the cavalcade of complications (and twists) that ensue, especially as the season reaches its explosive final episodes.
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ColliderAug 15, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The tension ratchets up to be sure, but [FBI agent Roy Petty's (Jason Butler Harner)] story is one that pales in comparison to those of Marty or Ruth or even the Snells, and his arc through the second season all feels a bit familiar and predictable. But the bright spots shine bright, and the season ends on a high note that sets up a compelling third season should Netflix renew the drama series.
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Jan 20, 2022
Season 4 Review:
The first seven episodes of the final season arrive on Friday (the second seven will be available later in the year), and they are easy to breeze through. But I’m still frustrated with the show. The story line, always on the fringes of believability, becomes utterly absurd in the new episodes.
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Jan 18, 2022
Season 4 Review:
The show nods here and there to what it is that Marty and Wendy want beyond to survive, and it’s there things genuinely pick up. ... In moments, one sees the version of “Ozark” that has a sense of these people, beyond their capacity to withstand extreme tension. But they’re too fleeting to dwell on. Better, perhaps, to embrace the ride, to speed on to the next kill.
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Jul 20, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Marty and Wendy don’t give Bateman and Linney much cause to stretch. One gets saddled with some sub-Scorsese soliloquies about criminal philosophy; the other has to make subtext into text with lines about vultures circling the Byrds’ and the scrubbing of a damned spot on the family’s dock. ... Derivative and lethargic.
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Aug 31, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The illusion of depth without any actual there there is an Ozark specialty. By the end of season two, it’s dragged itself to exactly where you’d think it would go, and racked up quite a body count (also proving it hasn’t really learned the lessons of the shows that came before it, which did their best to hold off on killing major characters). But none of it feels as if it has any meaning beyond getting from the end of season one to the start of season three. It’s a bridge to nowhere that keeps building itself right in front of you.
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Jul 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Ozark’s insistence on presenting the grimiest version of its story possible stands in the way of explaining why anything within its universe is happening. The presentation and the characters and the smug tone eventually coalesce into something deeply irritating. ... Ozark is offensive and doesn’t understand why it’s offensive.
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UPROXXJul 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
What might have felt like a novel idea 10 or 15 years ago--middle-aged white anti-hero does something terrible to help his family, and only gets pulled in deeper and deeper--is now so tired that it would require sheer brilliance to come out feeling as fresh and untainted as all the money that Marty cleans. And Ozark isn’t up to that challenge.
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