Watching Ozark

[IcyPeas]

Season 1, episode 9.

This came on at the end... had to look it up. The Black Angels. Kinda psychedelic sounding.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Some pretty decent music in that show ...

Also, I'm almost caught up now (S3 Ep7 is where I am) ... seriously that might be the most stressful show I've ever watched. It's great, but ... DAMN man.

Wait til Season 2 ... you'll see ...

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I need a season 4 fix.

I really, really am enjoying this. Longmire was another one i binged. Same with Fauda.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Longmire was a pretty good show, for sure ...

It's a bit more episodic in nature than Ozark ... iirc there were some ongoing threads stretching across a few episodes, but most of them you could just watch, and they mostly stand on their own. Particularly the stuff with the cult leader, that storyline ran for awhile.

BTW, I forget that actors name but he's always great in everything ... same dude who plays the back-alley eye surgeon in Minority Report, and he was a main baddie in the show about the imaginary World Court 'Crossing Borders' with Donald Sutherland ... which is a decent show if you stumble on it.

I think the wife and I watched all the Longmire episodes over a few weeks stint.

[Bluepinky]

3. It's a really intense show.

After every episode, I find myself saying to myself “Thank God that’s not my life.” I can’t imagine that a family could actually live those lives. I’m just about where you are, and I don’t want to finish watching it, because I don’t want it to end. The Laura Linney character is amazing beyond belief, she thinks on her feet and has an answer for everything; she is so street smart. And for someone who works for a drug cartel, I find myself really liking Marty Byrde. Ruth is a diamond in the rough; Darlene’s a nasty piece of work; Wyatt needs to open his eyes and get the hell away from Darlene.

[mr_lebowski]

5. She is amazing, the character and the performance ... BUT ...

She's kinda pissing me off in Season 3. She's pretty much a loose cannon, man, and IMHO frequently not making the best decisions.

One point of contention for me with the show though I have to say ...

Generally, I eventually get irritated when the main driver of a story is people who SHOULD be communicating ... and would avoid sooooo many of the problems the show presents if they just would ... not doing so.

If you watch Frasier sometime, you'll notice 'people not talking (or lying to each other when they do) and bad shit happening because of that' ... it's like almost every storyline. I can't watch more than one or two Frasiers per sitting.

Anyways, so much that happens in Ozark derives from that as well, and it's starting to wear on me a bit. I mean it makes sense in the context of story, and esp. with Marty's character, he's just insular as hell, but ... its just secret after secret after secret blowing up.

And sometimes it doesn't really make sense ... Marty doesn't tell Ruth that he doesn't trust Rachel and that she shouldn't say shit to her about anything?

Also, how was there no fallout from the attempted S2 burglary at the Funeral Home ever again? I mean ... it happened ... then it was NEVER mentioned again. That made no sense. That should've been a big deal afterwards.

/* SEASON 2 SPOILER ALERT */
One last gripe ... you can't just burn down a giant poppy field the night before the Feds show up and they don't find out that you were growing opium poppies there. I mean they showed an agent picking up a barely burned poppy and bagging it, FFS.

Anyways ... don't get me wrong, I love the show, but certain things bug the shit out of me about it too.

[Bluepinky]

6. Yes, the Laura Linney character in Season 3 is very cutthroat.

She has usurped the power in her relationship with Marty and seems unable to compromise at all.

Spoiler alert season 2:
One thing I couldn’t figure out was the part about the bones buried in Darlene’s and Jacob’s field; I thought the FBI had confiscated the bones (of people murdered) before Marty and the others switched those bones with the other bones from the ancient burial ground; that part didn’t make sense to me. And yes, the poppy field burning up the night before the FBI raid was too perfect.
The entire show is extreme; what frenetic lives they all live, no down time for any of them at all (except maybe for Darlene and Wyatt in a couple of scenes); talk about a May-December relationship!

[mr_lebowski]

7. That part of the story was bugging me too for awhile too!

**** SEASON 2 SPOILERS ****

I think they did a bad job with sequencing scenes and edits, and realized it needed correcting later.

So, quite bit after all that shit happened (like a full episode or two later), very quickly, it was explained that it was pulled off by someone working for the corrupt Sheriff. Somehow I guess we're supposed to believe he had access to all the bones, not the FBI? Huge stretch IMHO.

Anyways, it was one of the scenes between Linney and Zeke's dad, in the basement, when she came clean to him about what happened to his wife. That led to him starting to trust her and bringing her upstairs.

And yeah, I can't even imagine living their lives man ... that would SUCK.

The actress playing Darlene is 68 y.o. IRL. I think she looks pretty good for a 68 yo lady (turns 68 this year at least) actually, esp. since they try to make her look haggard.

She also plays her role SOOOO friggin well. Everyone in it is excellent really. Very well acted show, which means I can put up with a lot of nonsense

BTW, you ever seen Julia Garner (Ruth) IRL? Trippy listening to her talk normal. She's really beautiful, too. And she won the 2019 Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Drama, beating out 4 women from Game of Thrones ...

[Bluepinky]

8. Thank you, I'm going to watch that video; Ruth is one of my favorite characters in the show.

And Darlene looks great, I wouldn’t have thought she’s only a couple years from 70.

I agree, the acting is very good. I loved the therapist Sue; her voice was so syrupy smooth. And it was too funny when she showed up at Marty’s house in that ridiculous yellow sports car and told them she felt her services were “undervalued.” Of course Helen, who’s also excellent in her ruthless lawyer role, wasn’t going to stand for that. That show makes me appreciate my own uneventful life.

[mr_lebowski]

9. Oh, as soon as

**** SPOILERS SEASON 2 ****


they had that blowout in front of her ... I immediately knew she was toast. Then when she showed up w/the car I'm like ... welp ...