The gun jams and doesn’t fire, so Jonah is spared with the guilt of killing a man – but goddamn, he was ready to do it! 11. Perhaps equally as shocking as what follows is the fact that Wendy nods to Jonah, signing off on her son murdering a man. He aims his gun at the bad guy and glances over at his mother to get her approval. Then, when push comes to shove and a Mexican drug runner has arrived at their house to threaten the family, it’s time for Jonah to step up and become the man of the house. Jonah has been getting his mildly disabled friend to go into the local supermarket to buy rifles for him and then going out into the woods for target practice. If he was a little older than the hormone-ridden pre-teen that he is, he’d be voting Republican and loving Congress. Jonah pulls the triggerīy the season 1 finale of Ozark, Jonah has become a full-blown gun nut. Thankfully, Charlotte survives the ordeal, but goddamn, it was certainly close! 12. That’s the power of this scene – these two parents are having a normal conversation while every parent’s worst nightmare is happening to their child, literally right in their backyard. We watch her sink to the bottom of the lake, all intercut with a conversation between Marty and Wendy. She can’t keep her head above the surface of the water and she starts to drown. She’s out in the middle of the lake and she suddenly loses all of her energy. Since it’s dark out, Marty tells her to only go to the first buoy and back, but even that is almost too far. Toward the end of an episode that comes around midway through the first season of Ozark, Charlotte goes out for a late night swim.
It looks like a big, sweeping statement about homophobia and how difficult it is to be a gay man in a world where you’re not accepted, and the hardships of falling in love with someone who finds it difficult to express their feelings back to you.īut then it turns out he was basically using him to build a case against his family, and he’s racked up a whole bank of evidence that he can use to blackmail him into complying. There’s a whole romantic story arc built around their relationship as Langmore struggles to uncover his sexuality. It seems like he just happens to be a member of the Langmore family, the family who have their horns locked with Marty’s. Agent Petty was simply building a case against the LangmoresĪgent Petty is the FBI agent working to bring down Marty Byrde, and it seems for a few episodes that while he was in the Ozarks investigating Marty, he meets a man on a fishing trip and falls in love with him.
Marty, ever the quick thinker and spurred on by the shocking nature of such a quick-fire series of murders, rapidly thinks up a business pitch for the cartel where he’ll pay them back the money they’re owed and solve everything, and in the process, he manages to save his own life and his family’s (but is it a life worth living?). And then they want to take out his business partner, who happens to be Marty. They kill his girlfriend and his dad before going after Bruce himself. As soon as the cartel finds out, they go after everyone who has any association to Bruce.
The whole crux of the show is that Bruce was like Icarus flying too close to the sun on wings of embezzled drug money from a sinister Mexican cartel. Bruce and friends get quickly murderedīruce really screwed Marty over. So, here are the 15 most WTF moments from the first season of Netflix’s Ozark. Some of them even make you wonder if they’re even allowed to do that.
It is somewhat similar to Breaking Bad, but it could be argued that Ozark is even darker than that groundbreaking AMC show.īeing the irredeemably dark crime drama that it is, Ozark is full of shocking, jaw-dropping moments. He starts making the money no problem, but he faces opium dealers, an FBI probe, volatile rednecks, headhunters, and a preacher with a conscious who threaten to ruin everything. In an unusually serious turn, Jason Bateman stars as an accountant who owes a boatload of cash to a Mexican drug cartel, so he moves his family from the city out into the countryside to start raising the funds. Ozark is one of Netflix’s latest brilliant original drama series.