Lake tide

Ozark ended on exactly the right note. I read a bunch of reviews of the last season just after it came out and the tone was generally negative – 'substance over style' and so on, which always reminds me of the contemporary critics who said the same of Bladerunner and Heat. I am very bored by the interwebs' ranting about character arcs and storylines and beats and acts. The story is the story: shut up and watch and/or read.

Ozark was dark but not as fundamentally dark as Breaking Bad or The Sopranos. It was Ozzie and Harriet do crime; the parents who knew too much – more the Addams Family or the Munsters – so it was perfect that it ended with wickedness. The condensed final seasons, usually a bad sign, added levity by expediting the very grim elements before we got bored or bummed out. This was good craft and black comedy, and (most) of the characters we wanted to get away, did. Filed away to be watched again.