Ozark Season Three Review: Death of Decent People

Season 3 // Netflix Here’s some shoptalk that I would usually spare you, but it’s relevant here. I got the opportunity to review season two of Ozark last time around: or at least give a preview, with access to the first four episodes. I felt like the opening of season two had some new players, but was mostly more of the same. The Byrdes paint themselves into a corner and then Marty or Wendy manipulate some other third party to get themselves out. To varying degrees of suspended disbelief. Kind of rinse and repeat. At least that’s how I felt through the first four episodes. The latter half of the season saw some big twists and turns: the progression of Wendy’s character into an ambitious sociopath, the Cartel flip, and the ultimate transfer of power in the Blythe house by season’s end. Suffice to say, my review of the whole season was completely different than my review of the beginning. OZARK Sometimes it be Your Own Kin Season three starts much quicker than season two, mostly because the focal point of the show has moved to the instability of the Byrde’s household. Look, we’ve never seen them as stable. But at least they were paddling in the same direction. I know I’ve compared Ozark (in it’s construction, not in it’s potency) to Breaking Bad, but something Breaking Bad never explored is if Skylar ever had equal or more power than Walter. So much so that she was driving the decision-making and making Walter work against her. In season three of Ozark, it’s some Kramer vs Kra…