IMDb : 8.4

Cast : Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner,…

Those of you who already watched breaking bad might know how ugly it gets when someone tries to interfere in mexican drug cartels business. Cartel shows no mercy when it comes to betrayal.Ozark is the story that shows how far a family is willing to go to stay together and stay alive.Martin Byrde who is a financial planner is laundering money for mexican drug cartel.Things does not go as planned when his partners started stealing cartel’s money.Now Marty have to pay off a substantial debt to Mexican drug lord in order to keep his family safe.

Marty makes a plan to deal with the situation which involves moving with his family to the lakes of Ozark. He tries his luck with the local businesses and tries to invest as much money as he can. But he fails to do any significant investment at the begining. He then choose to go for suicide but later comes to an understanding that insurance company will do anything to not pay any insurance money to his family over Wendy’s(Marty’s wife played by Laura Linney) affair.

Now Marty has to come up with a way to invest his money and launder 8 million dollars in a short period.During this period in the first season Marty manages to launder money through a lodge, a strip club and also bought a funeral house. But things are not as simple as they seem for Marty and his family as one part of his plan is going to create a havoc in his life by involving himself with Snell’s family. Now we are not going to give you more details on these but things are about to get ugly for the Byrdes.

 Season 1 will make you familiar with the Ozarks and it ends with a new challenge for Marty as the cartel sends him another stack of cash of 50 million dollars which he has to invest in around 6 months. Now Marty and Wendy come up with a plan to build a Casino to launder this huge amount. After facing many problems they somehow able to open their own Casino and now starts to launder money.

Season 3 introduces a new character Wendy’s brother Ben Davis .Not konowing anything about what his sister and Marty is actually doing in Ozark Ben tries to understand what is going on with the Byrde family and what’s up with their new casino. Ben seems normal at first but causes lot of problems for the whole money laundering plan with the casino. So how the Byrde family deals with the Ben’s not so normal mental condition while laundering money side by side from the casino engages the viewers throughout the season.

All the cast members did a really good job especially Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde and Julia Garner who is playing Ruth,a 19 year old woman who is a part of a local criminal family known as langmores for which she won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series.Laura Linney too played Wendy Byrde very well and all the other actors also did a good job. Overall if you love dark and gritty thrillers you should definitely try Ozark before its final season 4 releases. Season 3 ends with a shocking scene. So fans are really hyped to see what happens in season 4.

The final season will be divided into two parts; the first part could be released in late 2021. The second part is likely to debut next year, possibly spring 2022.