‘Ozark’ Season 4 Is All Incident, Little Drama: TV Review
18.01.2022 - 22:56
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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticNetflix allows you to control not just what you watch, but how rapidly you do. You can stream their shows 1.25 or 1.5 times more rapidly than their creators meant them to be seen; an hourlong show becomes 45 minutes. (You can also slow Netflix down, should you desire.) It was only in watching the new batch of “Ozark” episodes — the first half of the drama’s last season, with a final set to arrive at a date to be named later — that I understood why someone might use them.That’s not to say that watching “Ozark” is a misery to be sped through: The series, a perennial zeitgeist hit and Emmys presence, is all about delivering pleasure.
It’s just that those pleasures solely exist in the realm of plot development — or, perhaps, plot intensification. This show began in a place of vacuous amorality and, in this fourth outing, restates once more that the people at the center of the frame are very, very bad. And very, very bad things happen to and around them, at a distracting rate that allows this show to hopscotch that — this deep into its run — it’s struggling to be about much of anything.
The show’s central Byrde family initially came to the Ozarks to get out of a jam, when Marty (Jason Bateman) was found to be skimming from the cartel for whom he laundered money. He set out to solve his problems in as aggressively extralegal a manner as possible. Now, he and his wife, Wendy (Laura Linney), are wealthy casino owners with yet more enemies; as the season begins, they must overcome emotional and pragmatic setbacks, including the deaths of a family member and of an attorney who leaves behind loose ends.All of this generates incident.
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