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Ozark - Official Trailer (Netflix original series starring Jason Bateman)
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Yes, first episode should tell you if you like the show or not.
Shows good but its only 1 season so its pretty hard to judge against shows that are done
Its certainly a fun season of tv,
sans_pants
avec_pénis
criesofthepast
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It has taken me forever to get through this first season. Just finished episode 5. I don't find it to be allll that great. It is good but nothing incredible in my mind.
The daughter is hot and they seem to like putting her in short shorts a lot.
*checks age on google*
k she is 18 nice but wtf thought she'd be older.
The daughter is hot and they seem to like putting her in short shorts a lot.
*checks age on google*
k she is 18 nice but wtf thought she'd be older.
bubaglobalj
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Absolutely loved season 1. Haven't been hooked by a show like this in a long time!
She doesn't even look 18 imo.
bubaglobalj
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Isn't she Bran's (from GOT) sister?
Watched this about three weeks ago.
Liked the premise quite a bit. Watched breaking bad this year so it was still fresh in my mind but the show was entirely unique.
From Chicago, so it was hilarious hearing that girl say Naperville after the guy asked where she was really from,
The show had nice dialogue, very clean cut. I liked that, no speaking in circles. Parables and analogies thus came off much better.
Complaint: The shading was the bluest-grey world I've ever seen. And my IPad protector (I was watching it while on vacation) is already blue tinted so I saw an extra blue world!
Liked the premise quite a bit. Watched breaking bad this year so it was still fresh in my mind but the show was entirely unique.
From Chicago, so it was hilarious hearing that girl say Naperville after the guy asked where she was really from,
The show had nice dialogue, very clean cut. I liked that, no speaking in circles. Parables and analogies thus came off much better.
Complaint: The shading was the bluest-grey world I've ever seen. And my IPad protector (I was watching it while on vacation) is already blue tinted so I saw an extra blue world!
-Pyromaniac-
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……forgetit
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Just watched the first episode, is this show supposed to be hilarious?
Jason Bateman is basically playing Michael Bluth in this.
Jason Bateman is basically playing Michael Bluth in this.
It's dark humor, yeah!
On episode 5. Enjoying it for the most part, but I'm not buying some of the decisions certain characters make.
Like...
I also think Ruth is potentially a great character, except:
Like...
First interaction: Character lies to you, throws you off boat, turns out to be white trash and part of a criminal family.
Second: Punch said character in the face.
Third: Apologize to character for mother's behaviour. Have pleasant conversation.
Fourth: Spend time together drinking and discussing science fiction.
What am I missing? What did he do to redeem himself? Did the posh guy hitting on her suddenly make her interested in the lower class guy?
Second: Punch said character in the face.
Third: Apologize to character for mother's behaviour. Have pleasant conversation.
Fourth: Spend time together drinking and discussing science fiction.
What am I missing? What did he do to redeem himself? Did the posh guy hitting on her suddenly make her interested in the lower class guy?
I also think Ruth is potentially a great character, except:
She yells to the entire club to not talk about her daddy...plus, hours/days later the place has gone from pretty empty to at capacity because of the new strippers. Really?
Jason Bateman usually plays Jason Bateman. If you ignore Dodgeball.
I think Bateman has a decent range, between Arrested Development, Ozark, and Juno.
Just finished Episode 5
I don't get the agent at all. He's weird like he hunts down serial killers but
Seems a bit contrived.
Also if I was 15 and my parents told me they were laundering money for a Mexican cartel and we had to move to Missouri in two days, I would be constantly shitting bricks and scared for my life. These kids are like, whatevers.
I don't get the agent at all. He's weird like he hunts down serial killers but
secretly he's gay and so is the white trash uncle?
Also if I was 15 and my parents told me they were laundering money for a Mexican cartel and we had to move to Missouri in two days, I would be constantly shitting bricks and scared for my life. These kids are like, whatevers.
Missouri ain't that bad.
you should watch rectify
Impeccable
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Hunts down serial killers and he is secretly gay, what?
Keep watching that angle. It isn't a mystery and comes together nicely.
Sidewinder
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That's what I thought too ;-p
bubaglobalj
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Are there any other shows like this with dark humour, you can recommend? (besides Breaking Bad)
QuantumBro
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Patriot on Amazon Prime.
The kids aren't really "like, whatevers," they definitely struggle with it, though the daughter generally seems more concerned about missing her friends.
I think there is a lot of humour in the show.
But yeah you learn in the first episode that Batemans character has already broke bad. But it is very different from Breaking Bad in a lot of ways. He is a decent guy who chose the fast track to wealth, and his family quickly becomes aware and participates in his crimes.
He also remains at least through the first season, a person who fucked up, but is not getting off on his crimes like Walter White, but a person trying to navigate this criminal world he has entered.
Davey Cakes
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Two episodes in. I really like Bateman in this.
Spikematic
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I thoroughly enjoyed this and am very happy that it got renewed for a second season. The cast did a great job all around. I also noticed that Bateman directed a couple of episodes (the first two and the last one I think). He is very talented!
He's fantastic isnt he? Loved him in this.
Paquete_PT
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One hell of a first season! Loved it! Without a doubt Netflix top tier stuff, and probably the most interesting season I've watched this last year.
Plot is interesting and fast paced. Although the comparisons to Breaking Bad are justified, the show breaks apart from them early on. It helps that it starts way ahead of where BB started in Walt's Journey, so the payoff in this first season is better.
Great ensemble cast, every last one of them were great in this. Bateman kills it (and very impressive as a director as well). Laura Linney is at the top of her game, which means she's at the top of everyone's game, one of the best actresses of our time, no doubt. Julia Garner is a revelation as Ruth. I never heard of her before, grips you with every scene.
Can't wait to see what we have waiting for us in the second season and I really hope it picks some hype with the audience and critics, this show could turn out pretty special if they can keep this up.
Plot is interesting and fast paced. Although the comparisons to Breaking Bad are justified, the show breaks apart from them early on. It helps that it starts way ahead of where BB started in Walt's Journey, so the payoff in this first season is better.
Great ensemble cast, every last one of them were great in this. Bateman kills it (and very impressive as a director as well). Laura Linney is at the top of her game, which means she's at the top of everyone's game, one of the best actresses of our time, no doubt. Julia Garner is a revelation as Ruth. I never heard of her before, grips you with every scene.
Can't wait to see what we have waiting for us in the second season and I really hope it picks some hype with the audience and critics, this show could turn out pretty special if they can keep this up.
I don't know. I finished the season, and still I couldn't buy him 100% as anything but Michael Bluth in it. Regardless, that last episode was really something. I give this show special props for both Ruth and Wendy, excellent actresses and characters, and for giving us the most
uncomfortable sex scene I've seen in a long, long time.
CoffeeExpress
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Just finished it, was a great show - I do not typically watch first season shows simply cos they might get canceled. I am glad this got renewed. Jason Bateman was great in it, and apart from the annoying daughter, there wasn't a bad plot point in it.
Some questions about the finale:
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Looking forward to Season 2, I am hoping for more colour - less blue. And some jokes, once in a while.
Some questions about the finale:
1.
Why was the FBI agent so mad, was it that the other dude exposed his cover ? throwing the dishwasher out the window is pretty silly mad
Less of a question but of a complaint about the baby baptism scene. That was way too long for a baby to be completely OK afterwards, it was like they didn't want to show a baby struggling to breath. Scene was a stupid fake-out (not one, but two drowning fake-outs). I don't get the preachers motivations. Surely losing your wife would make you even closer to the child ? all we got was 'I'm so mad at thing, baby goes underwater lol jk it was a religious thing, i love baby'
Bar lady is fucking stupid robbing the cartel. She knew that was their money.
Looking forward to Season 2, I am hoping for more colour - less blue. And some jokes, once in a while.
In regards to number 2, I'm pretty sure he was planning on going through with it and then changed his mind at the very last second.
Not so sure about that..
He obviously has no idea about kids/babys and seems to be pretty devoted to his believe. Could be that this was a decent amount of time to really be cleansed from the baptism in his eyes...
Also, don't really young kids have a reflex to stop breathing once they're underwater? Not that he knew that, but it could be that the child is relatively 'fine'
Also, don't really young kids have a reflex to stop breathing once they're underwater? Not that he knew that, but it could be that the child is relatively 'fine'
About number 1:
they blew the only chance they had to take down the cartel and catch Marty, the guy who seemingly killed his recent lover, after having worked on it for months.
And yeah, I wish they would turn off the blue filter, but I guess they have to because the Ozarks actually looks like a nice place to live in. It's different from Breaking Bad's setting where you can see it's close to the desert in the middle of nowhere.
They state multiple times how insanely large the property is but you're right, they don't pull it off very well
RespectThySole
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I'm on episode 6 but yeah I'm feeling the same on it so far
RustyNails
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Well I'm gonna peg it up to 8.5/10.
Great show that rises above the mediocrity of crime dramas. There are some crazy plot armors in the finale and a few motivations/actions that did not make sense. But other than that it's terrific. And man, some of the scenes are just insane.
Also, a spinoff miniseries about Buddy and his past, please.
Great show that rises above the mediocrity of crime dramas. There are some crazy plot armors in the finale and a few motivations/actions that did not make sense. But other than that it's terrific. And man, some of the scenes are just insane.
Also, a spinoff miniseries about Buddy and his past, please.
Kadayi
Banned
LOL, that's like about episode 8, you might as well wrap it up if you're that far in.
Norwegian Rudo
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Also keep in mind that she just found out that day that
her uncles are ditching her and moving away.