[ben voyonsdonc]

Here are my thoughts on Ozark:

Spoiler!

The final block of episodes just didn’t quite work for me. It did feel rushed and felt like it had lost its purpose. The final scene was particularly terrible.

Here’s how I’d have wrapped it up - lean in on the divide between Marty and Wendy. I think that storyline was largely abandoned over the final season but was one of the drivers of the show.

I’d have liked Marty to have finally given up on the laundering entirely after seeing what it was doing to the people he cared about - particularly Ruth. Wendy would be continuing on her power play and Marty’s disinterest in continuing would stand in her way of achieving her vision. He’s v become a liability for her. Marty would work to get the kids to flee with him. She finds out that he’s trying to take the kids and decides that the only way to achieve her dreams as well as keep the kids is to eliminate Marty and it becomes a cat and mouse game where Marty and Ruth are battling wills with her.

Ultimately, he gains the upper hand and kills his wife. The final episode or two would be focused on dealing with what he did but also desperately finding a way to safely get him and his family from under the cartel and out of the Ozarks.