As a 40 year old black aro-ace tomboy woman from London UK, my review will probably have a different perspective at times than others. I prefer American thrillers and Dramas, and I recently rewatched Ozark Season 4 and even though I knew what was going to happen - I still found this series interesting, entertaining and edge of your seat thrilling at times.
As a new movie screenwriter, I like a lot of the elements of the writing. Season 4 had different challenges and situations. My favourite character is Wendy Byrde. Even though she is ruthless, she's one of the best written characters as her character changes a lot from Season 1 and even when it's established that she is more ruthless than many of the characters, Wendy still reveals more layers of her personality, she's manipulative, contradictory at times, and the way she speaks to her husband a lot of the time is disrespectful, but Wendy is not the everyday wife anymore, and she still loves her family. I like the character Marty, but he is a one-dimensional character, maybe two-dimensional character, but leaning more towards a one-dimensional character as he doesn't change that much throughout the entire show, there might be a few scenes here and there where he will do something different than his usual personality, but he is one-dimensional, and I'm not even saying that it's a negative trait with this character due to plenty of main and supporting characters featured in the show. And Marty's calmness works when heated situations need to calm down.
As an animal lover, however, I am disappointed that the situations with animals in this overall series has been negative situations. Season 4 isn't too bad with this, however, even though it isn't a major part of the story - some circumstances are left unanswered as I wonder who will take care of a characters' pet when a character does not go back home. TV shows and movies do this all the time, they don't think small details like this will matter to audiences, but it matters to animal lovers. Ozark Season 4 and overall would have been an even better series if they'd either left animals out of it or brought more positive situations with animals.
Ozark: A powerful TV Drama/Thriller Series about a lake district community swimming in corruption.
As a new movie screenwriter, I like a lot of the elements of the writing. Season 4 had different challenges and situations. My favourite character is Wendy Byrde. Even though she is ruthless, she's one of the best written characters as her character changes a lot from Season 1 and even when it's established that she is more ruthless than many of the characters, Wendy still reveals more layers of her personality, she's manipulative, contradictory at times, and the way she speaks to her husband a lot of the time is disrespectful, but Wendy is not the everyday wife anymore, and she still loves her family. I like the character Marty, but he is a one-dimensional character, maybe two-dimensional character, but leaning more towards a one-dimensional character as he doesn't change that much throughout the entire show, there might be a few scenes here and there where he will do something different than his usual personality, but he is one-dimensional, and I'm not even saying that it's a negative trait with this character due to plenty of main and supporting characters featured in the show. And Marty's calmness works when heated situations need to calm down.
As an animal lover, however, I am disappointed that the situations with animals in this overall series has been negative situations. Season 4 isn't too bad with this, however, even though it isn't a major part of the story - some circumstances are left unanswered as I wonder who will take care of a characters' pet when a character does not go back home. TV shows and movies do this all the time, they don't think small details like this will matter to audiences, but it matters to animal lovers. Ozark Season 4 and overall would have been an even better series if they'd either left animals out of it or brought more positive situations with animals.
Ozark: A powerful TV Drama/Thriller Series about a lake district community swimming in corruption.