The show so wants to stand out, but it contains one disparate story line too many and they distract from instead of feed the main story. And a preacher (Michael Mosley) who proselytizes from a boat. There’s also FBI agent Roy Petty (Jason Butler Harner), who is saddled with issues. Marty convinces local hotel owner Rachel Garrison (Jordana Spiro) that he wants to invest in her Blue Cat Lodge and turn it into a profitable (and cash-based) operation. Marty gets caught up with the Langmore family and the clan’s de facto matriarch, Ruth (Julia Garner, so wonderful on The Americans and equally adept here), a 19-year-old grifter who is much smarter than she lets on. Oh, and did I mention that Buddy likes to walk around nude all the time? So the Byrde family’s new home in the Ozarks comes with the fact that the previous owner, Buddy Dyker (Harris Yulin), gets to live there until he dies, which is anywhere from a year to 18 months depending on how his failing heart holds up.
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I’m not making that up.īecause Marty’s story is well traveled TV fodder, the series must come up with fresh spins on an old tale. One of her major story arcs in the early episodes is her quest for organic pistachio ice cream. Wendy is saddled with the housewife-who-doesn’t-know-what-to-do-with-her-time-now-that-the-kids-are-growing-up angle. Marty drives a Honda Odyssey with those annoying family stickers on the window and he exasperatedly admonishes his children, “I’d love not to turn the room upside down to find the clicker.” Marty is an everyman, and the show reminds us of this every chance it gets. “More shoreline literally than the entire coast of California and every summer, five million cash-rich tourists descend on the place,” Bruce promises Marty and Marty in turn promises Camino. Marty convinces Camino that the feds won’t be looking as carefully in coastal Missouri. Marty, his wife, Wendy (the always luminous Laura Linney), and their two children, Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner), head to the Ozarks for Marty to set up the money laundering business and get Camino his money back. The only problem is, Marty’s partner, Bruce (Josh Randall), has been skimming to the tune of a missing $8 million. Marty Byrde (Bateman, who also serves an executive producer on the series and directs several episodes) is a Chicago financial advisor who has been laundering money for years for drug lord Camino Del Rio (Esai Morales). What makes Ozark different is that the series begins where many may have ended, making the pilot seem like it could be a series finale of another show: In an alternate TV universe, Ozark might have been the spin-off that didn’t quite live up to the original. It’s the good person who gets caught up in doing bad things (making meth, selling marijuana, laundering money) for a seemingly compelling reason (dying of cancer, sudden loss of spouse, wanting to provide a better life for her brother). Instead, the dark drama goes down a path we’ve seen perhaps one too many times before, on series such as Breaking Bad, Weeds and, most recently, the TNT’s freshman drama, Claws. When you first hear that Netflix’s new series is called Ozark and stars Jason Bateman, you might think it features the Arrested Development stalwart in a quirky, fish-out-of-water comedy.
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