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I watched the series and I don't mean to be contrarian, but I was not all that impressed. I thought Jason Bateman was miscast and I thought many of the scenes too contrived and the story line at times confused. I found myself predicting what will happen next despite the "twists."
Unlike Breaking Bad which had a certain logic and flow, I did not find that in Ozark.
However, I am not totally down on the series, I thought the last episode was the best and there may be hope for it after all.
Exactly how I feel. I lost interest after one or two episodes BUT it's decent enough that I will probably finish the season someday.
LOL! I finished last night, and boo-hoo, I wish there was MOAR. I think you shall like it!
UPDATE!! Oooohhhhhhhhh my!!!! I just finished the season finale, and WOW WOW WOW!! I was NOT prepared! I just can't imagine what will happen in season two. Geeezzzz. Sorry, I literally just finished 15 minutes ago, so I'm still reeling.....LOL.
I watched the series and I don't mean to be contrarian, but I was not all that impressed. I thought Jason Bateman was miscast and I thought many of the scenes too contrived and the story line at times confused. I found myself predicting what will happen next despite the "twists."
Unlike Breaking Bad which had a certain logic and flow, I did not find that in Ozark.
However, I am not totally down on the series, I thought the last episode was the best and there may be hope for it after all.
gosh, I thought Bateman did a fantastic job, fast talker, great for the part....
take it for what it is, entertainment, and leave the rest, if it doesn't please you, then get out....
I'm planning on watching Breaking Bad over the holidays, although would also like to watch House of Cards.
I loved it, Bateman crushed it. I know he does mostly comedies, but it was good to see him in a serious role. I liked him in The Gift, which was a serious movie. he's funny as hell but also good in dramas.
yeah, that surprised me a tad....lol
that woman is a real sick cookie, isn't she....real trigger happy, or should I say, glass happy.
I am only on episode #4 so I haven't read the other replies. I like it okay so far but a few things bother me:
1) The portrayal of the people in the Ozarks. I live not far from the Lake of the Ozarks and my dad was born and raised there. You wouldn't really see people like the people portrayed in the series there. The Lake of the Ozarks is mostly filled with people from Kansas City and other surrounding areas with enough money for a lake house and a boat. And there are lots of big, expensive boats. Watching the show, you'd think they were all destitute rednecks. They're not. There are places in backwoods Missouri that you might see people like in the series, but not to that extent. And not murderous drug-addicted thieves.
2) Why all the profanity? Can't they get their point across without profanity every other sentence? That's a turnoff for me. I wouldn't hang out with people in real life that talked like that constantly, and I don't want to see it on the series, either.
3) Why the porn/perversion angle? Is that really necessary? I don't see that it adds anything to the storyline. Again, it's a turnoff for me and I don't know if I will watch the entire series if the rest of it is filled with profanity and perversion. I'm no prude, but I just think it's excessive.
Also, the religion angle isn't realistic. The way they show that angle is more realistic for extreme southern Missouri, like Branson. Not Lake of the Ozarks.
Binge-watched it on Netflix, about a month ago. Now, reading comments about the "wow" ending, find myself not remembering the ending at all - ??? I guess I wanted the show SO BAD to be on the same level as Breaking Bad, with money laundering and all..... but something was bothering me in the fabric of the show.... what was it? what was it? I could not put my finger on it.
Then I watched Jason Bateman's interview on Stephen Colbert's show. Almost unnoticeably, fleetingly there, among all the talking, Jason mentioned that he had read a card right before coming out to greet Colbert, with a supposed comment, that went something like "Bateman played the role with an emotion of a cardboard cutout". Colbert dropped there that HE wrote that comment, and all was drowned in music/chatter. That moment stroke the truth for me: I had been bothered by the cardboardedness of Bateman, all episodes with the same expression - handsome face, but unbelievable neither when he was pleading for his life, nor when he decided to *explain* to his kids... It was all the same! The thousands of facial expressions of Bryan Cranston, in scheming, in despair, in fake lying, in rage, and so on..... That was the work of the level Bateman apparently cannot reach. I guess this is why I cannot remember the ending (will rewatch, of course).
Sorry if I offended Bateman's fans, but this is the way I feel.
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