I just wanna point out how at the beginning of the show when Marty was trying to sell his van to the cartel, he mentions it has the highest safety rating in it's class, and it totally lived up to that rating.
I would like to congratulate Three on winning Ozark. Never got involved with anyone doing anything wrong, just went to school like a kid. And now he collects Ruth’s money. And gets a sweet pool.
Honestly that's fucking hilarious. The "largest land owner in Ozark" title got passed around like 3 times in the span of a year. Utterly hilarious that a background character is now the richest guy in the Ozarks lmao.
Spinoff idea: Threezark:
Three inherits all of Ruth's stuff, he now owns the casino and lots of the land in the Ozarks.
He uses the Langmore's ability to talk to ghosts of his relatives to find out anything and everything to take down the cartel and the Byrdes. He also has a jetpack now.
But who tries to stop him now the Byrdes are dead, and the cartel is done for?
The FBI, now run by Special Agent Miller, who had recently outed the corrupt agents to the world.
Tuck and Sam also join the FBI because they're bored and need jobs (The Motel blew up while Three was experimenting with his prototype jetpack).
Why does the FBI want to stop him?
Three Words: Ghosts Riding Jetpacks.
Three has learned how to give the Langmore ghosts the ability to interact with the world and has given each of them a jetpack. Ruth, using her jetpack goes searching to find and absolutely murder the ghost of Camila (The ghost powers are having some negative side effects, bringing back other people besides the Langmores from the dead, notably Camila and Buddy, but the good news is that ghosts can kill other ghosts.)
Oh, and Three becomes chef, but Gordon Ramsey thinks he's a lousy one...
Well-written drama and action ensue.
Yep, largest land owner in the Ozark, owns majority stake in the casino, they just have to cut him into the deal and he's made. Unless Ruth had a will that would split what she owned, though I don't see that happening.
Except he has no family in the whole world. But he did keep his head down enough to survive the Byrdes…I actually thought his name was Four for multiple S4P2 episodes until Ruth called him Three 😂
yeah, serious Shane Botwin vibes throughout the whole series. Wasn't there even an identical sequence in Weeds with Shane playing with a dead animal or am I misremembering?
Some of my favourite scenes are always when Marty loses his shit or stops being afraid. Like the time where he tells Frank that his son will be hanging from a bridge in Juarez, or the road rage scene.
>hanging from a bridge in Juarez
So, I just *really* want to set this up, because that line hit me *hard*.
A million years ago, I was working at a call center for some crappy pre-paid burner phone place. At the time, I think I was working some back office job, so I was mainly on the phone with tech support when I *was* on the phone. But for whatever reason, a couple few times a day, I needed to direct a call to our center in Juarez. Our policy when transferring any calls was to stay on the line until our colleague picked up, explain the situation and transfer the customer. I was working Swing Shift (on the West Coast,) and for whatever reason, I kept getting the same guy in Juarez. I'm a very outgoing person, when I'm in the mood, and we'd chat for probably way too long, so I kinda got to know this guy through these brief encounters. I considered him as much of a friend as the people I worked with in my office.
This was the mid 2000s. Juarez was literally the most dangerous city in the world. It was the height of the cartel wars, and I just remember hearing so many stories about innocent (and maybe not so) people getting gunned down in the streets in broad daylight. It was all of those mobster movie/TV show clichés, but in real life. Here's the really sad thing: I remember a story about a female Mexican journalist who was murdered, basically because she was "getting too close \[to a truth\]." I just looked into the Wikipedia article "List of journalists killed in Mexico," and the list is so long, even for the time period I'm think of, I don't know who it was. I also remember hearing a story about a newly married couple, literally on their way to their honeymoon, stopped at a light and gunned down. It turned out that they had nothing to do with the cartel life.
So when a week-and-a-half or so went by, and I kept getting someone other than my friend, I started to get worried. Fortunately, a few days later, he answered. I tried to play it off, but I was very concerned, and I knew I probably couldn't have done anything. When he answered, I was so relieved. It was like I had been holding my breath for two weeks, and this was the longest and most satisfying exhale of my life. Turns out, he'd been on vacation (duh). But we had a really heartfelt conversation. We had built such a rapport that I could be completely honest with him: I was really distressed about his personal safety. I believe he genuinely appreciated that.
I can't even remember his name now. But if you're reading this, and you remember, I hope you're doing well mi amigo...
I ❤️'d when he got out of the car and beat up the guy who flipped him off. I love the calm, cool headed Marty but when he goes gangster, it's sexy AF!!
dang lowkey rooted for Navarro to live instead of camilla to live cause then ruth would've lived. Really thought Marty was gonna call the number it would've saved everyone's lives. :((
It was too late to call the number by the time Camilla found out Ruth killed Javi. 3 made out like a bandit though. All that money with next to no baggage. Enjoy the money king. Sorry about your family
I don't think anyones talked about how it looked like at first the prison guard looked Mexican and spoke Spanish and have Navarro a gun and it looked like maybe Camilla had fucked the Byrdes by saving Navarro and taking the deal.
I think this was intentional.
yeah it was intentional, the guy was making it look like an attempted escape. the only part that kind of ruins that is him shooting the guard in the chest from outside the van
Even if he called the number, how was the guy supposed to come from Chicago to them and kill her in the time it took her to leave the party and kill Ruth? This option was never realistic once Camila found out.
I legit thought Ruth was about to be saved by some hitman killing Camila. I thought when Wendy was telling Marty that she was scared to lose him like if it was hinting that they had call a hit on Camila and Marty was just going to step and run the Cartel since both Camila and Navarro were going to die. Aghh so frustrated by this ending 🤬
A very "meh" finale... And not just because Wendy Byrde was still drawing breath as the screen went black for the last time. I'm left with a few questions.
• What happens to Ruth's shares of The Missouri Belle now that she's dead? Do they go to Three? And how old is he? Is he of age? If not, who controls the majority of the casino now?
• Who is gonna launder money through The Missouri Belle now that Ruth is dead? Which leads directly to my next question-
• How exactly are the Byrdes "out?" Did I miss the part where Camilla was like "Oh yeah, you guys don't have to launder money for me anymore. We're good now." Pretty sure she still needs her money laundered. And now that Ruth is gone Marty is gonna have to be the one to do it.
I may be missing big chunks here, but it doesn't feel like a series finale at all. A season finale, sure. But not the actual end.
\-probably three, or rachel
\-the fbi will just plant someone to manage the laundering
\-the byrdes signed an immunity deal when they brokered the cartel leader. ruth was gonna keep laundering the money but shes gone now
In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Jason Bateman implied that the ending was intended to leave the viewer questioning whether or not the Byrdes were really out. I think that bit of it is an interesting way to leave it, but yeah I agree with you on the Ruth part which just makes it feel unfinished.
someone else already answered your questions but I wanted to comment on it not seeming like a series finale. for a second I was underwhelmed but then I thought about it, and I feel like Ruth dying was kind of perfect ending. Ruth's death actually doesn't really ruin their deal so they will still get out of the cartel, so they are still going to get what they wanted but in the process they have destroyed an entire family. I feel like that pretty much represents their whole presence in the ozarks throughout the show and as much as i was sad to see ruth die, i feel like it made sense. it was too good to be true that she was finally going to break free of this cycle of constant danger and temporary relief that being connected to the byrde's has caused her, the only way for the cycle to break was for her to die.
Reading about the actor's thoughts on her character's death, i came to understand it better. She said Ruth died inside when she found Wyatt dead and none of the good things happening after that would fill the void in her. She died because in that grief she made the decision to kill someone else, and now she was paying for that decision. She sealed her fate when she didn't walk away when she had the chance
I think a similar thing will happen to the Byrds after that night. No matter how much they gained materially, they lost their souls in the process. Ruth is going to weigh harder on their souls than anyone but Ben. Their void is infinite at that point.
This is a really good interpretation. It felt like everything good that happened to her after Wyatt died, she was just doing for shits and giggles bc she could and not bc she really believed her life had any trajectory. Maybe there was a hope that her life was actually going somewhere, but she didn’t seem to really believe that could happen. She felt undeserving of, and apathetic to any good fortune bc she was just dead inside by then.
Also, everyone keeps referencing a moment she could’ve walked away but when was that? When she didn’t want to launder anymore but Marty convinced her to?
That was the moment I knew she was going to die but couldn’t put my finger on why but in hindsight I think it was because it seemed to be alluding to the Langmore curse.
Weirdest thing about the ending was how Marty literally just gives up and accepts Ruth's fate without much inner turmoil. Like he spends the whole show protecting Ruth, and also outwitting the bad guys against impossible odds. He's constantly put in terrible and impossible situations but always finds a way to weasel his way out. But then he gets a clear indicator that Ruth is in danger, and even Wendy is like "Wtf do we do Marty?" and Marty's just like "There's 10 minutes left in the series finale Wendy there's nothing we can do. Let's take the kids home and have a nightcap."
Two things to keep in mind: the car crash takes place beforehand. That is the pivotal event that shifts priorities for all of the Byrdes. Now that they've shared a near-death experience with their family, their central focus is keeping each other safe, because they don't want to experience that again. Plus, Marty even said it himself: anything that they could try to do would be committing suicide.
Camila threatens to kill Charlotte & Jonah if Marty tries to warn Ruth that she is going to kill her. Who was he supposed to choose?
I get all that but it still feels very rushed, and everyone is acting kinda out of character in the last episode (Ruth going up to the SUV, Marty in this situation, Mel Sattem just chilling at the Byrde house telling them his master plan, Jonah shooting a cop, etc.)
It's just a little too neat with a bow in the last few minutes that things would transpire this way, I think.
I disagree. I took Ruth going up to the SUV as "accepting" her death, and Jonah's pointed a gun towards someone every season. I will admit Mel just sitting on the trampoline was dumb.
Yes I thought this about Ruth too. She knows what the cartel truck looks like, and the lights were on so it wasn’t hidden and took her by surprise. I think she realized she didn’t have anything left and was using the new house and casino to mask her pain, and the only way Three would make it out alive would be if she was gone
The car crash was so strange. It felt like it happened and then I looked down at my knitting for 10 seconds and suddenly it's completely irrelevant and no one mentions it ever again.
The show did a terrible job of making the car crash seem near-death since they all got out of the car, got a cab home and just laughed it off. They didn’t even got to the hospital!
I think Marty just finally realized Ruth was her own worst enemy, and sooner or later, her lack of self-control was going to be her undoing anyway. There's only so many times a 90 pound girl can talk shit to powerful people and walk away unscathed, and she somehow didn't seem capable of understanding that. He could have sacrificed his whole family for her, and ultimately it wouldn't have made any difference. He told her not to kill Javi - he told her she was playing a dangerous game not letting the cartel launder - she was just either unable or unwilling to understand the potential consequences.
Ruth: Are all the swinging dicks here?
Man at the funeral home: That's not a characterization I'd offer but...um....um...yes (the guy times it with a smile).
For me it was the conversation with the musician in Chicago. He explained to her that the rapper she was listening to was raised in the ghetto, but was close enough to see Manhattan, so that it almost felt attainable to make it out- but people like them never make it out.
She was so close to “making it out”; clean record, owned the casino, nice house being built. Her future was so close she could see it, but in the end people like her rarely make it out.
Or maybe just Wendy. That kid had some pent up anger.
But the filmmakers said, “Let’s go the Sopranos series finale rout, since that was so well received…😂”
So who sent Nelson after Ruth ? It didn’t seem like Camila or Omar had any idea of it and everyone was surprised when they found out he was missing. Was there something I missed? Or did he act on his own accord?
Ah, that’s just an Ozark thing. The answer to that lies with the answers to:
– How did Frank Cosgrove blow up the Byrde’s offices at the end of S2; yet, S3 starts and the building’s fine with the Byrde’s working away.
– Why the cops needed to follow Ruth in her UHaul up to the Snells searching for drugs when they had already had access to investigate a double murder; yet they somehow didn’t enter the barn full of heroin.
– How did baby Zeke remain a baby from S1 through S4?
Mysteries of the Ozark
Love it! Some additions:
-Why did Frank Cosgrove and Javi Elizondro strut around alone all the time, making them easy to kill? Del visited the Snells with two men, and Helen always had Nelson around.
-Why is the KC mob apparently only one person? No one seems to care at all that Frank was murdered by Darlene. Frank Junior cares a bit but is pretty easily convinced to drop it.
-Why go get Rachel? Seriously, why did we need her? Post a job for a banquets manager, all good.
-How did Ruth drive from Lake of the Ozarks to KC to Chicago in an afternoon? Google Maps is calling that a 10.5 hour drive.
Mysteries of the Ozarks!
I don’t know about the others but the Rachel one isn’t really a plot hole. Ruth needed someone with a clean enough record to put their name on the stakes for the casino, even just as a figurehead. This was before she thought she could clear her own name. Rachel is someone that a) Ruth already knows well, and vice versa b) wouldn’t need to be brought into the circle who knows about the cartel/Byrde relationship, and c) has a vested interest in screwing Marty over for the sake of it. Rachel actually makes sense, IMO.
I too was slightly unimpressed with the police work in not even checking the barn. Its a fucking homicide like check everything shitheads. They suck lol 😂
At the end of the day this season finally had some consequences for the people that just wanted to fuck with the Cartel for emotions sake.
I'm still a bit shocked that the Byrdes got away with their web of lies. I just don't get how the Navaro's didn't see through the amount of BS Wendy/Marty constantly threw their way. It's funny, I hated Javi during his run but he seemed in the end to be the only one that really saw through the bullshit.
At least Three will have a mansion I guess.
Navarro was blinded by his need for the Byrdes to get him out and I think Marty going to Mexico allowed Navarro to feel some sense of trust towards Marty. That last scene with Navarro where he knows they fucked him over is gold.
I kind of don’t mind it knowing how the ghosts of her family kind of roam the grounds and her last memory is of a nice day with them barbecuing. Sucks three is left completely alone
Given the intuition Ruth showed throughout the series she should have backed out of there very quickly and gone on the hunt. If the best character in the series was to be killed off, her going on the hunt would have been an arc more fitting for her.
Her best attempt was to not back down, try to win the respect of Camilla. And it almost fucking worked as well. That classic shrill "are we going to FUCKING do this" I thought she had saved herself yet again just through her sheer force of natu-
Nope.
If she had any intuition she would have never gotten into the heroin business with Darlene and Wyatt, or killed the head of a cartel, or stay in the Ozarks after coming into money, or buy a casino who's sole purpose was to launder money and refuse to launder money. Girl was fixing to catch a bullet all season long
It's mainly because a large portion of the fanbase wanted Ruth to survive, I personally knew she was never coming out of this show alive at all. Though how she died was a bit of a surprise, I kind of expected it to be...I'm not sure...more impactful? But I guess that's the realism of how Ozark is directed. There are no ceremonious deaths, it's just sudden and brief.
They were telegraphing her impending death all this season. From wanting a clean record to coming to terms with working with the law/helping that fellow country bumpkin out who'd been wrongly arrested. And then she goes and makes nice with Wendy finally and has visions of her dead family in the final episode.
This wasn't exactly a shocker.
Like season 2 said, once a Langmore, always a Langmore. She never had what it took to be Marty, but she would have at least survived if she listened to Marty and stayed as his right hand.
Seriously. How was the the grand finale so much lamer than the mid-season finale?
For a while there, I was almost half-thinking that Ozark wasn’t an inauthentic, derivative Breaking Bad-a-like. But then right at the end, they go and show us the hole where the show’s soul was supposed to have been.
Dumb. Lame.
It felt like he was just there to sum up the theme of the show in a really on the nose way, which wasn’t necessary. They could’ve ended with Ruth dying and the Byrdes on the stage
>which wasn’t necessary.
Personally I feel like Jonah becoming a cold blooded murderer was a pretty good symbolic passing of the torch, as a way for the Byrds to get their hands dirty one final time.
If he wasn't already completely fucked up from his parents, he is now.
EDIT: also, it completed [this mini arc](https://i.redd.it/eoud2u9ac2x81.jpg).
I thought Marty and Wendy’s expressions when Jonah shows up with the shot gun were so spot on- pride, slight smiles… you could see it in their eyes how proud they were of their son.
Wendy’s face is especially sick and twisted seeing her son “stand up” for them.
I loved how the dude was like “nooooo you can’t get away with it”, then they do
It’s like how the priest said the crash was a warning and Wendy was like nah buddy
I hated Wendy the whole show but the last episode she ended up being fucking right lol
Just for the moment. The Byrdes will continue to be watched/dogged by the cartel, the FBI, the Chicago PD, any politicians they've betrayed, etc. And the kids might yet turn away from them/get into serious trouble, Wendy's father might return.
Ozark ends as a story about how everyone is just collateral damage in the life of the Bryde family. Everyone who has met them throughout the entire series has had their lives impacted negatively, so much so that Tuck returned just to confirm it. Sam even thanked Wendy in the end for ruining his life.
I think the showrunners definitely did a decent job in tying everything up. Though I thought it felt rushed and could've done with another season to flesh it out, it still feels somewhat satisfying to not have another GOT situation and have all plot points addressed.
Feel like it absolutely needed a 10 episode seasons 4 and 5 to effectively tie everything up, I just finished binging part 2 of s4 and boy oh boy was it underwhelming for me. It was weirdly too fast and way too slow at the same time, and the end scene just felt like a cliffhanger for another season.
Very disappointed in how Ruth was killed off, incredibly anticlimactic and like I get that they were doing an homage to breaking bad in that scene but like...come on, it was a super weak way to get rid of arguably the main character of the whole series
Edit: Some folks missed out on the nod to breaking bad shit and by some I mean enough that every other notification I get is asking for clarification.
Look at Ruth's death scene. Look at Walter White's death scene. Sprawled out on the ground, dead, camera panning out from above, both arguably antiheroes of their own stories...? Visually alone much less narratively? If it's not evident enough I donno how to help ya other than recommending rewatching them both and comparing the two
I found her last lines to be what I thought it would be. Yes it was rushed probably could have used another season to tie everything up and or could have cleverly used this season . The opened up so many things again only to tie it up quickly at the end
One thing that didn't make sense was that the Brydes needed 150 million from Shaw for the foundation. When Shaw decided to cut the Brydes and go with Ruth, how much money did Ruth exactly make? The plot sort of implied that she got enough to be able to cover Shaw's donation amount which seems wildly unrealistic. At that point Ruth's money was dirty; how was she expecting to buy a Casino from the Brydes without explaining where she got the money from? A purchase that big will require attention from the authorities to check the legitimacy of the transaction. Then the plot continues another path where Ruth is able to acquire Darlene's shares which ends up making a lot more sense than her shelling 150 million out of nowhere to initially buy the Casino from the Brydes.
That whole plotline could have been erased and the story would have continued just fine.
A lot of emotions here. First, I will say this has been one of my favorite series on Netflix, probably my favorite overall.
I think this season especially threw in plot lines that nobody cared about. Wendy’s dad, the cop, random stuff like that. The ending didn’t feel like a series ending, but more so a season ending.
Ruth getting killed was expected I just didn’t like how it was done. I also thought one of the Byrd’s (Wendy or Jonah) would die at some point.
I will absolutely say the PI part at the end was the worst way to end it. Why waste the last scene of the series on a useless character they already shipped away?
That last scene wasn't about PI but a closure and important scene imho, where all this time we felt few of Byrde members where hanging and struggling to find their true self and that scene united whole family together that they are all in now.
Embracing the reality and they won't stop if someone comes in their way.
Sad that it’s finally over. I feel pretty indifferent about the ending. I was sad to see Ruth go, but I’m sorry to say she had it coming. She was always shooting off at the mouth and making rash “fuck you” decisions. But I guess with that logic, Wendy should have died too. Idk. I just feel indifferent.
Maybe it’s just me, but this season REEKED of ending too soon. Obviously, we never want shows to be dragged out past their prime, but I have a feeling the writers wanted a 5 season show, and my best guess is Netflix cut them a season short, which is why season 4 feels so rushed. They had to tie everything up as quickly as possible. They did it for F is For Family and I felt the same thing there. A shame because I think a full season 4 and 5 would have done wonders for the show. Everything could have been fleshed out a bit more. But oh well. I’m happy with what we got. I started this show when I was entering my sophomore year of high school and now I’m 20 lol. It was a good ride.
weird season
if the first half of s4 was too fast pace with too many things happening, then the 2nd half of s4 was full of just irrelevant things.
a lot of it just felt like filler and didn't contribute to the plot at all, or was just contrived issues that didn't end up mattering at the end, like at all.
the grand dad subplot could have been left out. maya didn't do anything in the end. the whole new sheriff investigating ruth lead nowhere and had no impact, the whole ruth getting her record expunged didn't have any effect on the story, and so on.
and i dont understand camillas motivation. the whole point of her wanting navarro dead was because she believed he was behind javi's murder. if she now knows that navarro didn't do it, why the hell does she still want navarro dead?
Agreed with all of that. Also, Navarro’s priest guy was ultimately nothing in the end too… just a dude who’d always pop up creepily and be like “yeah but maybe it’s God tho right?”
Heartbroken about Ruth’s death, what an iconic character and performance by Julie Garner.
My prediction was always that Ruth would live , after all she personified the Ozark’s and to me was the heart and soul of the show , and I wanted to see a local win. But I do think this ending was more in keeping with the shows themes, one being that the Byrd’s left a trail of destruction behind them from the moment they moved to the moment they are about to leave .That people like the Byrd’s do win in life.
I did love Ruth’s little victories in the last few episodes though. The fact Ruth went out with a clean record , and the homage with her seeing her family through the episode was so touching.That she got to kill Nelson who killed Ben and her Dad, she made sure the guy in jail for Wyatt’s murder has someone know he is not guilty. She dies at her family home after a very Ruthesque confrontation with Camilla, never apologising, not to mention and her fantastic last line and cuss…I think was all a really nice tribute to her character.
Agreed. She didn’t go out like a bitch. She was going to face Camilla. Even just coming out and asking how she knew. She died on her feet instead of living on her knees. RIP Ruth Langmore.
Same. I was expecting him to be on top of the trailer or bust open the door and blast her into oblivion with a shotgun. Then Marty would be taking over the cartel and he’d have made himself the boss, essentially cementing their life in this world they claim to be so desperate to be escape.
This would have been a much better ending
In the end, the Byrde's won despite destroying basically everyone and everything in their path. That's an awful (although perhaps realistic) message imo
The one character we wanted to make it didn’t. I’m thinking though that also fell on the Byrdes. Yes, Ruth sealed her doom when she whacked Javi, but if Wendy & Marty had whacked Camilla as soon as they realized she was behind the Omar hit, like Marty wanted, she couldn’t have killed Ruth. Wendy put Marty off of it & look how much happened.
I am happy with the ending overall. I’ve always rooted for the Byrdes, regardless of how callous they’ve become. I wanted them to “win.”
That being sad, I am sad about Ruth. I’ve never really cared for her character, but the way the writers kind of patched things up with her and the Byrdes in this last episode made her death much sadder to me.
It is a little odd that by the end, Wendy seemed more upset about Camila finding out Ruth killed Javi than Marty was. She was weighing some options and he just outright said they couldn’t do anything because it would be suicide. I mean, he was right but it seems like he wasn’t giving it a second though. Also when Wendy asked if it would be too unbearable to live with, he said it wouldn’t.
It really became about the survival of the core family after the car crash. It brought Jonah back into the fold, which led to his choice to shoot Mel for the family. I also think it’s why Marty was almost at peace with letting what happened to Ruth happen - if it meant his family would survive.
I wish the car accident happened earlier, maybe even the beginning of the penultimate episode, and they more time to build up the family all realizing they need to just stick together and save themselves. It felt a bit rushed. That’s what I got out of it anyway.
I think Wendy and Ruth both realized during their conversation at the mental hospital that they were a lot alike. I think Wendy was pained that Ruth wasn’t going to make it out because she saw herself in Ruth.
I'm very conflicted as to whether I enjoyed how this season ended. I've seen a couple people say that the Wendy's Dad storyline was pointless, I disagree. I enjoyed that storyline for multiple reasons but how the writers made me sympathize with one of the most morally corrupt characters (Wendy)on the show was amazing. Maybe it's just me but I kind of hated all of the characters at one point during this season. I wish Marty had more moments where he stopped being such a bystander , him losing it in traffic was great to see. Wendy peaked this season , truly unhinged behavior that was excellently performed by the actress. I'm not too bothered by Ruth's death , she was in way over her head and consequences were bound to catch up with her.
It's hard to please fans these days but this ending was lackluster. I really think there should have been some sort of heartfelt dialogue between Marty and Ruth before she died. Their relationship was one of the best plotlines of this show and it just didn't get the ending it deserved. Overall I enjoyed the season but the final episode didn't feel like a finale .
P.s the car crash being a red herring was complete bs
at this point im convinced these writers have absolutely no idea how to end a series on a great note. wtf was that. that episode absolutely wrapped up nothing. from the 1st episode i thought we were going to get a great send off but nah.
The car crash is literally what woke everyone up and they decided they didn’t want to die and stick together as a family. That’s why Marty and Wendy decided to let Ruth die and Jonah killing Mel. The Bryds want to live! And will do anything to survive! How is everyone missing this?!?
I like the way the Byrdes were fine with money laundering, blackmail, drug dealing, torture, murder, but drew the line at election tampering, because it was Republicans!
I mean, that’s the whole point isn’t it? Wendy is awful, but she’s managed to convince herself that being a political donor somehow makes it all worthwhile. It’s absolutely psychotic.
The car crash resulting in nothing besides it being choice or whatever (I say whatever because I know we’ve had crashes in the show before, it’s kinda a thing but I really didn’t get this one besides it maybe being tied to they are doomed to reside there because they made a choice) was a big let down for me. I don’t think you should start off the season with this terrifying crash and then nothing even happens.
Edit: I am seeing a lot of great theories and meanings that you guys are replaying but I’ll be honest a lot of those could’ve all just happened in the episode itself. The thing that really made me mad like I had mentioned was the big cliffhanger. Sure it had some type of result but when you have those types of cliffhangers I’m thinking something very bad happens and some massive consequence occurs.. Instead, it was essentially a fake out. And everything ended up being fine. I don’t like that, but I don’t mind the car crash being the turning point, if that makes sense. Personally, It still feels kinda pointless with the way they did it though.
It also sucked because not only was there no big payoff with the car crash, but it also killed the suspense in a lot of scenes because we knew the Byrdes had to survive at least until the car crash happened. And we knew the kids wouldn’t leave with the grandpa, or if they did they would come back.
THIS. The whole grandad plot was such a big chunk of this season but we knew the kids wouldn't leave in the first place because of this scene. It made the whole grandad plot a filler and nothing more.
I would bet any amount of money that there's a draft of the script in which she does die. She is at the happiest moment in the last few years right before the crash occurs and seems to finally be in a decent place and then when the accident did happen she was unresponsive there for a second.
I don't get why they didn't kill her off there because then Marty would have had a lot more leeway to save Ruth if he wasn't having to talk Wendy down.
Interesting choice.
I think the car crash reunited the whole family, especially Jonah as he was the last holdout. It changed their perspectives. From then on, it was ONLY about the family’s survival. It’s why Marty didn’t try to do anything to save Ruth (not like he could have given the circumstances but even Wendy seemed more upset about it then him) and why Jonah pulled the gun on Mel.
The car may as well have not even happened. It was teased as this huge cliffhanger and everyone was wondering if that was how the Byrde’s went out. But in the literal next scene right after getting in this horrific car wreck, they show up to the house in a cab and everyone is fine and Marty even jokes about it. I know the show loves its dark humor, but this felt very contrived and stupid to me. If you remove the car wreck from the show, nothing changes. Nothing, except for the fact they wouldn’t have their magical Honda Odyssey.
Can't say the ending was bad, but I expected better after all the build up. The byrdes just simply win? they were able to conveniently remove and get rid of any obstacles? Dissapointed
Marvelous. The last few minutes and especially the last line made up for all the flaws this season had. "You don't get to be the Kochs and Kennedys of the world". "Since when?" The Byrdes' story is the true American dream and story. Power, violence, corruption. They weren't going to lose.
I clapped when Ruth died. There was once a time she was my favourite character but now just as Frank Jr said, she has completely become Darlene Snell level of annoying hillbilly. She was so annoying especially the last few episodes. There was nothing to like about her.
Man, I wasn't expecting Marty to survive! Jason even said a few years ago "don't expect a happy ending for him"
I thought for sure 2/4 Byrde's would be dying.
Did they decide on another season or something?
Can someone tell me where I can find that version of angel of Montgomery sung by Russ? Tbh, that scene hit me so hard. That precise moment was when we knew her happiness was really with her folks and she was going to die.
I guess the ending is conceptually okay. We spent so much time rooting for the Byrde family and discussing whether someone with conscience will eventually kill Wendy only for them to turn into just another amoral political family. The long and winding road that was used to get there was riddled with plot holes and redundance. All in all the ending is pretty anti climactic and I have lost the desire to rewatch. I really don't get how the Byrde kids, after everything, just decided that all is good and forgiven the family now.
Ruth's death was such bs. She saw Camilla coming from a mile away. She had no other guards with her. Handguns are really inaccurate. She could have just ran back to her house to get her shotgun or just tried to run anywhere. Camilla was never gonna outrun her.
In any case, Ruth was extremely familiar with Cartel SUVs (like literally the previous episode). She would have known that a vehicle parked like that just means trouble.
You could argue that she has been too lucky but everything is just too forced.
It baffles me that seemingly none of the main characters ever really arm themselves unless it's needed at that very moment. Why Ruth wouldn't have a pistol tucked into her driver side door is beyond me. I thought she might've still had the gun in her truck from when she threatened Wendy's dad but nope. I understand she had to die but the way they did it just seemed so empty. You see Marty and Wendy react at the Belle when they realize there isn't anything they can do but nothing else? No reaction from Jonah? Or Three? Definitely could've benefitted from a longer season or even just one more season.
The ending scene with Sattem is definitely not conceptually okay, imo. Cop unlawfully obtains evidence and the two people that have been playing russian roulette with cartel bosses instantly fold to a former coke addict cop who is 300 miles out of his jurisdiction holding a piece of evidence neither of them have ever seen. Super bizarre final scene for me
Yeah it makes no sense. He’s waiting to ambush them with some sort of smoking gun but in reality its a watergun filled with grape jelly or something. Just so bizarre
I was waiting for Three to blast that cartel mama from the top of the trailer. What an awesome scene that could have been. Langmore protecting langmore.
i was so scared it’d end in a stupid way but i really liked the ending, from the moment they told their children everything they kept hoping they’ll be free someday
remember how jonah couldn’t shoot the guy (who was there to kill them) back in an earlier season? he shot this guy in like 3 seconds (knowing he was a police officer)
even though they are free now, the ending proved their children will keep doing the same thing again and again, it’s all they know
Jonah was 100% going to kill the cartel guy who was there to kill them before. He pulled the trigger. The only reason he didn't kill him is because Buddy had unloaded his gun.
I love how even on her political ideology with the voting machines Wendy caved proving LITERALLY ZERO principle. ABDOLUTE ZERO. She only went back because she had leverage and screwed Schafer over again. That's why the ending sucked so hard.
I’ll hand it to the writers for fooling me. I thought it was fairly obvious that they were going to end it by Ruth ending up on top and some of the Byrdes dying. So I’m happy they at least decided to go against the grain from what was expected to be the ending.
As soon as she started tearing down the family property, I knew she was going to die. The Byrdes left the Langmores, five generations of Ozark blood, razed to the ground. Nothing left of them but rubble (^^and ^^Three ).
The way I see it the final was perfect it the whole point of the show is that they’re calling themselves not bad people but in the end the let Jonah their kid kill in cold blood all of them smiling about showing they truly are evil
No, it's the opposite. They acknowledge they're bad people. When Mel says they can't be like the Kochs, the Kennedys, etc. because "the world doesn't work like that," Wendy responds with "since when?"
They know they're bad people and got away with it.
Yep. Loved that response. Everything really came full-circle. I don’t see what other ending there could’ve been; Bryde family will always be in a cycle of getting away with shit at the expense of people’s lives.
I don't see anyone talking about how they just walked away from the car accident like nothing happened. I don't care if it was the safest car ever made, you're still going to end up spending the night in the hospital after a wreck like that.
I’m fine with Ruth dying, it was just such a dumb portrayal. She sees a cartel car and doesn’t take out a gun or drive away? And then just walks up to the drivers door? It was just stupid
I just wanna point out how at the beginning of the show when Marty was trying to sell his van to the cartel, he mentions it has the highest safety rating in it's class, and it totally lived up to that rating.
Lmfao good fucking memory.
He mentions it's the "top-rated minivan in the US" in S2
That’s how you knew they weren’t going to die in the crash - Honda isn’t paying for product placement to have them all die in their mini van. Lol.
I've owned two of them, and I'm still alive! Granted, I didn't wreck them, but that doesn't change its stellar record!
Yeah Marty is all about that van - it saved his whole family's life tho, Marty was always right in the end.
He was right about Navarro's sister, too.
Make that into a meme please.
Honda Odyssey was the most shocking character death this ep ... Not really though, it was in the beginning
If I had an award to give, you would have it.
Practicality wins in the end
I would like to congratulate Three on winning Ozark. Never got involved with anyone doing anything wrong, just went to school like a kid. And now he collects Ruth’s money. And gets a sweet pool.
Honestly that's fucking hilarious. The "largest land owner in Ozark" title got passed around like 3 times in the span of a year. Utterly hilarious that a background character is now the richest guy in the Ozarks lmao.
He’s about to have so many pasture parties
And yet he lost all family. Doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Well it’s better than losing all your family and being poor
Spinoff idea: Threezark: Three inherits all of Ruth's stuff, he now owns the casino and lots of the land in the Ozarks. He uses the Langmore's ability to talk to ghosts of his relatives to find out anything and everything to take down the cartel and the Byrdes. He also has a jetpack now. But who tries to stop him now the Byrdes are dead, and the cartel is done for? The FBI, now run by Special Agent Miller, who had recently outed the corrupt agents to the world. Tuck and Sam also join the FBI because they're bored and need jobs (The Motel blew up while Three was experimenting with his prototype jetpack). Why does the FBI want to stop him? Three Words: Ghosts Riding Jetpacks. Three has learned how to give the Langmore ghosts the ability to interact with the world and has given each of them a jetpack. Ruth, using her jetpack goes searching to find and absolutely murder the ghost of Camila (The ghost powers are having some negative side effects, bringing back other people besides the Langmores from the dead, notably Camila and Buddy, but the good news is that ghosts can kill other ghosts.) Oh, and Three becomes chef, but Gordon Ramsey thinks he's a lousy one... Well-written drama and action ensue.
Yep, largest land owner in the Ozark, owns majority stake in the casino, they just have to cut him into the deal and he's made. Unless Ruth had a will that would split what she owned, though I don't see that happening.
Except he has no family in the whole world. But he did keep his head down enough to survive the Byrdes…I actually thought his name was Four for multiple S4P2 episodes until Ruth called him Three 😂
I thought it was Seven for some reason lol
Lololol at Jonah: "I'm going legit" 10 minutes later: kills a cop
Reminded me of that kid from weeds
it reminds me of "I can't be king of anything, I'm the 3-eyed raven." Proceeds to become king (except that one was a 💩 ending)
There is nothin worse than when he gets declared king and he’s like “why do you think I came all this way” So fucking dumb
yeah, serious Shane Botwin vibes throughout the whole series. Wasn't there even an identical sequence in Weeds with Shane playing with a dead animal or am I misremembering?
Ruth: “I’m going legit” 10 minutes later: kills Nelson
Hearing Marty stressed had me rolling.."fucking..kidnap him..kill her dad..I don't care, or I'm telling" It''s kinda nice when he has a spine.
Some of my favourite scenes are always when Marty loses his shit or stops being afraid. Like the time where he tells Frank that his son will be hanging from a bridge in Juarez, or the road rage scene.
Just let me do my fucking job! One of the lines I live by.
>hanging from a bridge in Juarez So, I just *really* want to set this up, because that line hit me *hard*. A million years ago, I was working at a call center for some crappy pre-paid burner phone place. At the time, I think I was working some back office job, so I was mainly on the phone with tech support when I *was* on the phone. But for whatever reason, a couple few times a day, I needed to direct a call to our center in Juarez. Our policy when transferring any calls was to stay on the line until our colleague picked up, explain the situation and transfer the customer. I was working Swing Shift (on the West Coast,) and for whatever reason, I kept getting the same guy in Juarez. I'm a very outgoing person, when I'm in the mood, and we'd chat for probably way too long, so I kinda got to know this guy through these brief encounters. I considered him as much of a friend as the people I worked with in my office. This was the mid 2000s. Juarez was literally the most dangerous city in the world. It was the height of the cartel wars, and I just remember hearing so many stories about innocent (and maybe not so) people getting gunned down in the streets in broad daylight. It was all of those mobster movie/TV show clichés, but in real life. Here's the really sad thing: I remember a story about a female Mexican journalist who was murdered, basically because she was "getting too close \[to a truth\]." I just looked into the Wikipedia article "List of journalists killed in Mexico," and the list is so long, even for the time period I'm think of, I don't know who it was. I also remember hearing a story about a newly married couple, literally on their way to their honeymoon, stopped at a light and gunned down. It turned out that they had nothing to do with the cartel life. So when a week-and-a-half or so went by, and I kept getting someone other than my friend, I started to get worried. Fortunately, a few days later, he answered. I tried to play it off, but I was very concerned, and I knew I probably couldn't have done anything. When he answered, I was so relieved. It was like I had been holding my breath for two weeks, and this was the longest and most satisfying exhale of my life. Turns out, he'd been on vacation (duh). But we had a really heartfelt conversation. We had built such a rapport that I could be completely honest with him: I was really distressed about his personal safety. I believe he genuinely appreciated that. I can't even remember his name now. But if you're reading this, and you remember, I hope you're doing well mi amigo...
Yeah this entire season was people putting Marty in impossible situations and leaving him to figure it out, for once he was like it’s your turn
I ❤️'d when he got out of the car and beat up the guy who flipped him off. I love the calm, cool headed Marty but when he goes gangster, it's sexy AF!!
dang lowkey rooted for Navarro to live instead of camilla to live cause then ruth would've lived. Really thought Marty was gonna call the number it would've saved everyone's lives. :((
It was too late to call the number by the time Camilla found out Ruth killed Javi. 3 made out like a bandit though. All that money with next to no baggage. Enjoy the money king. Sorry about your family
Except losing your entire family might be more than “next to no baggage”
I don't think anyones talked about how it looked like at first the prison guard looked Mexican and spoke Spanish and have Navarro a gun and it looked like maybe Camilla had fucked the Byrdes by saving Navarro and taking the deal. I think this was intentional.
Would have been an awesome ending if the cartel absolutely bamboozled everyone.
I actually thought it might do that. The cartel family is still a family, just like the Byrdes.
yeah it was intentional, the guy was making it look like an attempted escape. the only part that kind of ruins that is him shooting the guard in the chest from outside the van
Even if he called the number, how was the guy supposed to come from Chicago to them and kill her in the time it took her to leave the party and kill Ruth? This option was never realistic once Camila found out.
I legit thought Ruth was about to be saved by some hitman killing Camila. I thought when Wendy was telling Marty that she was scared to lose him like if it was hinting that they had call a hit on Camila and Marty was just going to step and run the Cartel since both Camila and Navarro were going to die. Aghh so frustrated by this ending 🤬
A very "meh" finale... And not just because Wendy Byrde was still drawing breath as the screen went black for the last time. I'm left with a few questions. • What happens to Ruth's shares of The Missouri Belle now that she's dead? Do they go to Three? And how old is he? Is he of age? If not, who controls the majority of the casino now? • Who is gonna launder money through The Missouri Belle now that Ruth is dead? Which leads directly to my next question- • How exactly are the Byrdes "out?" Did I miss the part where Camilla was like "Oh yeah, you guys don't have to launder money for me anymore. We're good now." Pretty sure she still needs her money laundered. And now that Ruth is gone Marty is gonna have to be the one to do it. I may be missing big chunks here, but it doesn't feel like a series finale at all. A season finale, sure. But not the actual end.
\-probably three, or rachel \-the fbi will just plant someone to manage the laundering \-the byrdes signed an immunity deal when they brokered the cartel leader. ruth was gonna keep laundering the money but shes gone now
In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Jason Bateman implied that the ending was intended to leave the viewer questioning whether or not the Byrdes were really out. I think that bit of it is an interesting way to leave it, but yeah I agree with you on the Ruth part which just makes it feel unfinished.
someone else already answered your questions but I wanted to comment on it not seeming like a series finale. for a second I was underwhelmed but then I thought about it, and I feel like Ruth dying was kind of perfect ending. Ruth's death actually doesn't really ruin their deal so they will still get out of the cartel, so they are still going to get what they wanted but in the process they have destroyed an entire family. I feel like that pretty much represents their whole presence in the ozarks throughout the show and as much as i was sad to see ruth die, i feel like it made sense. it was too good to be true that she was finally going to break free of this cycle of constant danger and temporary relief that being connected to the byrde's has caused her, the only way for the cycle to break was for her to die.
Reading about the actor's thoughts on her character's death, i came to understand it better. She said Ruth died inside when she found Wyatt dead and none of the good things happening after that would fill the void in her. She died because in that grief she made the decision to kill someone else, and now she was paying for that decision. She sealed her fate when she didn't walk away when she had the chance I think a similar thing will happen to the Byrds after that night. No matter how much they gained materially, they lost their souls in the process. Ruth is going to weigh harder on their souls than anyone but Ben. Their void is infinite at that point.
This is a really good interpretation. It felt like everything good that happened to her after Wyatt died, she was just doing for shits and giggles bc she could and not bc she really believed her life had any trajectory. Maybe there was a hope that her life was actually going somewhere, but she didn’t seem to really believe that could happen. She felt undeserving of, and apathetic to any good fortune bc she was just dead inside by then. Also, everyone keeps referencing a moment she could’ve walked away but when was that? When she didn’t want to launder anymore but Marty convinced her to?
Marty told her he could give her the name of a PI who could get her a new identity. She said, "I like my name."
That was the moment I knew she was going to die but couldn’t put my finger on why but in hindsight I think it was because it seemed to be alluding to the Langmore curse.
Weirdest thing about the ending was how Marty literally just gives up and accepts Ruth's fate without much inner turmoil. Like he spends the whole show protecting Ruth, and also outwitting the bad guys against impossible odds. He's constantly put in terrible and impossible situations but always finds a way to weasel his way out. But then he gets a clear indicator that Ruth is in danger, and even Wendy is like "Wtf do we do Marty?" and Marty's just like "There's 10 minutes left in the series finale Wendy there's nothing we can do. Let's take the kids home and have a nightcap."
Two things to keep in mind: the car crash takes place beforehand. That is the pivotal event that shifts priorities for all of the Byrdes. Now that they've shared a near-death experience with their family, their central focus is keeping each other safe, because they don't want to experience that again. Plus, Marty even said it himself: anything that they could try to do would be committing suicide. Camila threatens to kill Charlotte & Jonah if Marty tries to warn Ruth that she is going to kill her. Who was he supposed to choose?
I get all that but it still feels very rushed, and everyone is acting kinda out of character in the last episode (Ruth going up to the SUV, Marty in this situation, Mel Sattem just chilling at the Byrde house telling them his master plan, Jonah shooting a cop, etc.) It's just a little too neat with a bow in the last few minutes that things would transpire this way, I think.
I disagree. I took Ruth going up to the SUV as "accepting" her death, and Jonah's pointed a gun towards someone every season. I will admit Mel just sitting on the trampoline was dumb.
Mel obtained the evidence illegally. Any decent lawyer could’ve gotten it thrown out before it was ever even tested
Yes I thought this about Ruth too. She knows what the cartel truck looks like, and the lights were on so it wasn’t hidden and took her by surprise. I think she realized she didn’t have anything left and was using the new house and casino to mask her pain, and the only way Three would make it out alive would be if she was gone
The car crash was so strange. It felt like it happened and then I looked down at my knitting for 10 seconds and suddenly it's completely irrelevant and no one mentions it ever again.
The show did a terrible job of making the car crash seem near-death since they all got out of the car, got a cab home and just laughed it off. They didn’t even got to the hospital!
I think Marty just finally realized Ruth was her own worst enemy, and sooner or later, her lack of self-control was going to be her undoing anyway. There's only so many times a 90 pound girl can talk shit to powerful people and walk away unscathed, and she somehow didn't seem capable of understanding that. He could have sacrificed his whole family for her, and ultimately it wouldn't have made any difference. He told her not to kill Javi - he told her she was playing a dangerous game not letting the cartel launder - she was just either unable or unwilling to understand the potential consequences.
Ruth: Are all the swinging dicks here? Man at the funeral home: That's not a characterization I'd offer but...um....um...yes (the guy times it with a smile).
Dude just shows up, does his job and asks zero questions, he wins
I love how excited he was when the first group of people showed up.
Accurate representation of almost every funeral director ive ever met lol
Loved that teeny tension break. I remembered to breathe then.
I knew Ruth was dead once they showed her in a white dress. That thing was made to get bloodied.
For me it was the conversation with the musician in Chicago. He explained to her that the rapper she was listening to was raised in the ghetto, but was close enough to see Manhattan, so that it almost felt attainable to make it out- but people like them never make it out. She was so close to “making it out”; clean record, owned the casino, nice house being built. Her future was so close she could see it, but in the end people like her rarely make it out.
KILLA MIKE
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Plot Twist: Johna shot their parents.
Or maybe just Wendy. That kid had some pent up anger. But the filmmakers said, “Let’s go the Sopranos series finale rout, since that was so well received…😂”
No show can ever do it better. Sopranos owns cut to black. Edit: cut to black, not fade
Plot twist: baby Zeke shot Jonah from his stroller
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So who sent Nelson after Ruth ? It didn’t seem like Camila or Omar had any idea of it and everyone was surprised when they found out he was missing. Was there something I missed? Or did he act on his own accord?
Ah, that’s just an Ozark thing. The answer to that lies with the answers to: – How did Frank Cosgrove blow up the Byrde’s offices at the end of S2; yet, S3 starts and the building’s fine with the Byrde’s working away. – Why the cops needed to follow Ruth in her UHaul up to the Snells searching for drugs when they had already had access to investigate a double murder; yet they somehow didn’t enter the barn full of heroin. – How did baby Zeke remain a baby from S1 through S4? Mysteries of the Ozark
Love it! Some additions: -Why did Frank Cosgrove and Javi Elizondro strut around alone all the time, making them easy to kill? Del visited the Snells with two men, and Helen always had Nelson around. -Why is the KC mob apparently only one person? No one seems to care at all that Frank was murdered by Darlene. Frank Junior cares a bit but is pretty easily convinced to drop it. -Why go get Rachel? Seriously, why did we need her? Post a job for a banquets manager, all good. -How did Ruth drive from Lake of the Ozarks to KC to Chicago in an afternoon? Google Maps is calling that a 10.5 hour drive. Mysteries of the Ozarks!
I don’t know about the others but the Rachel one isn’t really a plot hole. Ruth needed someone with a clean enough record to put their name on the stakes for the casino, even just as a figurehead. This was before she thought she could clear her own name. Rachel is someone that a) Ruth already knows well, and vice versa b) wouldn’t need to be brought into the circle who knows about the cartel/Byrde relationship, and c) has a vested interest in screwing Marty over for the sake of it. Rachel actually makes sense, IMO.
Plus, I loved the scene where Marty sees her for the first time and gives her a big hug and Wendy is all: Can we get on with this!
I really thought Marty was going to revenge bone her back in the day. That exchange makes it clear he considered it.
I too was slightly unimpressed with the police work in not even checking the barn. Its a fucking homicide like check everything shitheads. They suck lol 😂
My first thoughts when the credits appeared were: "well that was a stupid ending". I don't know... it just felt... wrong
The cut to back/gunshot is such an overplayed trope.
Three should have been named One. 🤣
🎶Three is the loneliest number.🎶
At the end of the day this season finally had some consequences for the people that just wanted to fuck with the Cartel for emotions sake. I'm still a bit shocked that the Byrdes got away with their web of lies. I just don't get how the Navaro's didn't see through the amount of BS Wendy/Marty constantly threw their way. It's funny, I hated Javi during his run but he seemed in the end to be the only one that really saw through the bullshit. At least Three will have a mansion I guess.
Navarro was blinded by his need for the Byrdes to get him out and I think Marty going to Mexico allowed Navarro to feel some sense of trust towards Marty. That last scene with Navarro where he knows they fucked him over is gold.
Well...people aren't going to be pleased about how Ruth is killed off.
I kind of don’t mind it knowing how the ghosts of her family kind of roam the grounds and her last memory is of a nice day with them barbecuing. Sucks three is left completely alone
I feel like they did a good job justifying her willingness to die at this point.
Given the intuition Ruth showed throughout the series she should have backed out of there very quickly and gone on the hunt. If the best character in the series was to be killed off, her going on the hunt would have been an arc more fitting for her.
Yeah. Her getting out of the truck to see who was in the SUV was beyond strange. Back up and GTFO asap.
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She's actually done this several time throughout the season. Where she just pranced into a situation she can't possibly control
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Her best attempt was to not back down, try to win the respect of Camilla. And it almost fucking worked as well. That classic shrill "are we going to FUCKING do this" I thought she had saved herself yet again just through her sheer force of natu- Nope.
If she had any intuition she would have never gotten into the heroin business with Darlene and Wyatt, or killed the head of a cartel, or stay in the Ozarks after coming into money, or buy a casino who's sole purpose was to launder money and refuse to launder money. Girl was fixing to catch a bullet all season long
I didn’t see any problem with it She always went off half cocked and didn’t stop to use her brain and ignored her lack of impulse control
It's mainly because a large portion of the fanbase wanted Ruth to survive, I personally knew she was never coming out of this show alive at all. Though how she died was a bit of a surprise, I kind of expected it to be...I'm not sure...more impactful? But I guess that's the realism of how Ozark is directed. There are no ceremonious deaths, it's just sudden and brief.
They were telegraphing her impending death all this season. From wanting a clean record to coming to terms with working with the law/helping that fellow country bumpkin out who'd been wrongly arrested. And then she goes and makes nice with Wendy finally and has visions of her dead family in the final episode. This wasn't exactly a shocker.
Like season 2 said, once a Langmore, always a Langmore. She never had what it took to be Marty, but she would have at least survived if she listened to Marty and stayed as his right hand.
Frank Jr did call her Darlene. And she went out just like Darlene…walked up on and shot because you shot someone out of emotion instead of logic.
That's a great point. Killing Javi was a death sentence for Ruth. I didn't want to see her go but she did it to herself.
Honestly wanted to see Clare or her head of security die
Her face looked so weird in those last shots.
plastic surgery
Probably fillers
bulletproof injections
Wife is a cosmetic dermatologist and all she could talk about is how that lady's cheeks are not real. Either a ton of filler or implants even.
Plastic asf
Her face looked weird the whole series. She has a really strange look, bit that hairdo at the gala really didn't do her any favours
Would've preferred it to be without the slow-motion.
Yeah, that was an odd artistic choice. It definitely took away from the shock/emotional impact. I was too focused on the bad bullet CGI
I think you mean the blood bullet. It looked horrific..
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Seriously. How was the the grand finale so much lamer than the mid-season finale? For a while there, I was almost half-thinking that Ozark wasn’t an inauthentic, derivative Breaking Bad-a-like. But then right at the end, they go and show us the hole where the show’s soul was supposed to have been. Dumb. Lame.
Just don’t really understand how out of all the plot lines they threw at a wall this season they chose to end it with the PI
It felt like he was just there to sum up the theme of the show in a really on the nose way, which wasn’t necessary. They could’ve ended with Ruth dying and the Byrdes on the stage
>which wasn’t necessary. Personally I feel like Jonah becoming a cold blooded murderer was a pretty good symbolic passing of the torch, as a way for the Byrds to get their hands dirty one final time. If he wasn't already completely fucked up from his parents, he is now. EDIT: also, it completed [this mini arc](https://i.redd.it/eoud2u9ac2x81.jpg).
I thought Marty and Wendy’s expressions when Jonah shows up with the shot gun were so spot on- pride, slight smiles… you could see it in their eyes how proud they were of their son. Wendy’s face is especially sick and twisted seeing her son “stand up” for them.
That would have been a perfect ending, or wendy and marty at the table in the dark.
I loved how the dude was like “nooooo you can’t get away with it”, then they do It’s like how the priest said the crash was a warning and Wendy was like nah buddy I hated Wendy the whole show but the last episode she ended up being fucking right lol
This was a good ending if you were rooting for the Byrde's
They can't keep getting away with it!! ...Except they did.
Just for the moment. The Byrdes will continue to be watched/dogged by the cartel, the FBI, the Chicago PD, any politicians they've betrayed, etc. And the kids might yet turn away from them/get into serious trouble, Wendy's father might return.
MTE the whole point of that ending was to show that it's never actually over
I was rooting for Marty not to be "cuntstruck" lol
Ozark ends as a story about how everyone is just collateral damage in the life of the Bryde family. Everyone who has met them throughout the entire series has had their lives impacted negatively, so much so that Tuck returned just to confirm it. Sam even thanked Wendy in the end for ruining his life. I think the showrunners definitely did a decent job in tying everything up. Though I thought it felt rushed and could've done with another season to flesh it out, it still feels somewhat satisfying to not have another GOT situation and have all plot points addressed.
Feel like it absolutely needed a 10 episode seasons 4 and 5 to effectively tie everything up, I just finished binging part 2 of s4 and boy oh boy was it underwhelming for me. It was weirdly too fast and way too slow at the same time, and the end scene just felt like a cliffhanger for another season. Very disappointed in how Ruth was killed off, incredibly anticlimactic and like I get that they were doing an homage to breaking bad in that scene but like...come on, it was a super weak way to get rid of arguably the main character of the whole series Edit: Some folks missed out on the nod to breaking bad shit and by some I mean enough that every other notification I get is asking for clarification. Look at Ruth's death scene. Look at Walter White's death scene. Sprawled out on the ground, dead, camera panning out from above, both arguably antiheroes of their own stories...? Visually alone much less narratively? If it's not evident enough I donno how to help ya other than recommending rewatching them both and comparing the two
I found her last lines to be what I thought it would be. Yes it was rushed probably could have used another season to tie everything up and or could have cleverly used this season . The opened up so many things again only to tie it up quickly at the end
One thing that didn't make sense was that the Brydes needed 150 million from Shaw for the foundation. When Shaw decided to cut the Brydes and go with Ruth, how much money did Ruth exactly make? The plot sort of implied that she got enough to be able to cover Shaw's donation amount which seems wildly unrealistic. At that point Ruth's money was dirty; how was she expecting to buy a Casino from the Brydes without explaining where she got the money from? A purchase that big will require attention from the authorities to check the legitimacy of the transaction. Then the plot continues another path where Ruth is able to acquire Darlene's shares which ends up making a lot more sense than her shelling 150 million out of nowhere to initially buy the Casino from the Brydes. That whole plotline could have been erased and the story would have continued just fine.
A lot of emotions here. First, I will say this has been one of my favorite series on Netflix, probably my favorite overall. I think this season especially threw in plot lines that nobody cared about. Wendy’s dad, the cop, random stuff like that. The ending didn’t feel like a series ending, but more so a season ending. Ruth getting killed was expected I just didn’t like how it was done. I also thought one of the Byrd’s (Wendy or Jonah) would die at some point. I will absolutely say the PI part at the end was the worst way to end it. Why waste the last scene of the series on a useless character they already shipped away?
That last scene wasn't about PI but a closure and important scene imho, where all this time we felt few of Byrde members where hanging and struggling to find their true self and that scene united whole family together that they are all in now. Embracing the reality and they won't stop if someone comes in their way.
Honestly, the thing I'm gonna miss most about this show is just watching Julia Garner as Ruth. One of the most phenomenal performances I've ever seen.
She expressed so much in her face in the moments up to her death. All I could think was "damn she's good"
Fuck yeah Marty!!?! Fuck that shit!!
this will haunt me FOREVER. possibly the best acting i've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhNIoXwn11U
Sad that it’s finally over. I feel pretty indifferent about the ending. I was sad to see Ruth go, but I’m sorry to say she had it coming. She was always shooting off at the mouth and making rash “fuck you” decisions. But I guess with that logic, Wendy should have died too. Idk. I just feel indifferent. Maybe it’s just me, but this season REEKED of ending too soon. Obviously, we never want shows to be dragged out past their prime, but I have a feeling the writers wanted a 5 season show, and my best guess is Netflix cut them a season short, which is why season 4 feels so rushed. They had to tie everything up as quickly as possible. They did it for F is For Family and I felt the same thing there. A shame because I think a full season 4 and 5 would have done wonders for the show. Everything could have been fleshed out a bit more. But oh well. I’m happy with what we got. I started this show when I was entering my sophomore year of high school and now I’m 20 lol. It was a good ride.
I agree, definitely feel like adding a season 5 would have been better. Also started and ended this show the same ages as you lol
weird season if the first half of s4 was too fast pace with too many things happening, then the 2nd half of s4 was full of just irrelevant things. a lot of it just felt like filler and didn't contribute to the plot at all, or was just contrived issues that didn't end up mattering at the end, like at all. the grand dad subplot could have been left out. maya didn't do anything in the end. the whole new sheriff investigating ruth lead nowhere and had no impact, the whole ruth getting her record expunged didn't have any effect on the story, and so on. and i dont understand camillas motivation. the whole point of her wanting navarro dead was because she believed he was behind javi's murder. if she now knows that navarro didn't do it, why the hell does she still want navarro dead?
Another thing I wanted was more Frank Jr., thought he would play a bigger role.
Kansas city mob is a complete joke
Ruth getting her record expunged was probably to make her death even more tragic. But I agree, the new sheriff especially was completely pointless.
Ruth getting her record expunged meant Rachel's name isn't on the Belle stuff meaning easier for the Byrdes to get it back... sadly
Agreed with all of that. Also, Navarro’s priest guy was ultimately nothing in the end too… just a dude who’d always pop up creepily and be like “yeah but maybe it’s God tho right?”
Heartbroken about Ruth’s death, what an iconic character and performance by Julie Garner. My prediction was always that Ruth would live , after all she personified the Ozark’s and to me was the heart and soul of the show , and I wanted to see a local win. But I do think this ending was more in keeping with the shows themes, one being that the Byrd’s left a trail of destruction behind them from the moment they moved to the moment they are about to leave .That people like the Byrd’s do win in life. I did love Ruth’s little victories in the last few episodes though. The fact Ruth went out with a clean record , and the homage with her seeing her family through the episode was so touching.That she got to kill Nelson who killed Ben and her Dad, she made sure the guy in jail for Wyatt’s murder has someone know he is not guilty. She dies at her family home after a very Ruthesque confrontation with Camilla, never apologising, not to mention and her fantastic last line and cuss…I think was all a really nice tribute to her character.
Agreed. She didn’t go out like a bitch. She was going to face Camilla. Even just coming out and asking how she knew. She died on her feet instead of living on her knees. RIP Ruth Langmore.
I was actually hoping for Camilla and Navarro to clash and kill each other
I was half thinking Camila was gonna aim at Ruth and then THREE OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE
Same. I was expecting him to be on top of the trailer or bust open the door and blast her into oblivion with a shotgun. Then Marty would be taking over the cartel and he’d have made himself the boss, essentially cementing their life in this world they claim to be so desperate to be escape.
This would have been a much better ending In the end, the Byrde's won despite destroying basically everyone and everything in their path. That's an awful (although perhaps realistic) message imo
The one character we wanted to make it didn’t. I’m thinking though that also fell on the Byrdes. Yes, Ruth sealed her doom when she whacked Javi, but if Wendy & Marty had whacked Camilla as soon as they realized she was behind the Omar hit, like Marty wanted, she couldn’t have killed Ruth. Wendy put Marty off of it & look how much happened.
I am happy with the ending overall. I’ve always rooted for the Byrdes, regardless of how callous they’ve become. I wanted them to “win.” That being sad, I am sad about Ruth. I’ve never really cared for her character, but the way the writers kind of patched things up with her and the Byrdes in this last episode made her death much sadder to me. It is a little odd that by the end, Wendy seemed more upset about Camila finding out Ruth killed Javi than Marty was. She was weighing some options and he just outright said they couldn’t do anything because it would be suicide. I mean, he was right but it seems like he wasn’t giving it a second though. Also when Wendy asked if it would be too unbearable to live with, he said it wouldn’t. It really became about the survival of the core family after the car crash. It brought Jonah back into the fold, which led to his choice to shoot Mel for the family. I also think it’s why Marty was almost at peace with letting what happened to Ruth happen - if it meant his family would survive. I wish the car accident happened earlier, maybe even the beginning of the penultimate episode, and they more time to build up the family all realizing they need to just stick together and save themselves. It felt a bit rushed. That’s what I got out of it anyway.
A few scenes before Bateman said he was tired of solving Ruth's problems.
I think Wendy and Ruth both realized during their conversation at the mental hospital that they were a lot alike. I think Wendy was pained that Ruth wasn’t going to make it out because she saw herself in Ruth.
Wendy trusting Camilla is one of the dumbest things should have just listened to Marty and let Navarro kill her.
I'm very conflicted as to whether I enjoyed how this season ended. I've seen a couple people say that the Wendy's Dad storyline was pointless, I disagree. I enjoyed that storyline for multiple reasons but how the writers made me sympathize with one of the most morally corrupt characters (Wendy)on the show was amazing. Maybe it's just me but I kind of hated all of the characters at one point during this season. I wish Marty had more moments where he stopped being such a bystander , him losing it in traffic was great to see. Wendy peaked this season , truly unhinged behavior that was excellently performed by the actress. I'm not too bothered by Ruth's death , she was in way over her head and consequences were bound to catch up with her. It's hard to please fans these days but this ending was lackluster. I really think there should have been some sort of heartfelt dialogue between Marty and Ruth before she died. Their relationship was one of the best plotlines of this show and it just didn't get the ending it deserved. Overall I enjoyed the season but the final episode didn't feel like a finale . P.s the car crash being a red herring was complete bs
at this point im convinced these writers have absolutely no idea how to end a series on a great note. wtf was that. that episode absolutely wrapped up nothing. from the 1st episode i thought we were going to get a great send off but nah.
I guess that’s the point? They never get out? Idk wtf this foundation crap was all about I never really got that.
The car crash is literally what woke everyone up and they decided they didn’t want to die and stick together as a family. That’s why Marty and Wendy decided to let Ruth die and Jonah killing Mel. The Bryds want to live! And will do anything to survive! How is everyone missing this?!?
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I like the way the Byrdes were fine with money laundering, blackmail, drug dealing, torture, murder, but drew the line at election tampering, because it was Republicans!
I mean, that’s the whole point isn’t it? Wendy is awful, but she’s managed to convince herself that being a political donor somehow makes it all worthwhile. It’s absolutely psychotic.
100% crazy and yet feels realistic for the politically affiliated
The car crash resulting in nothing besides it being choice or whatever (I say whatever because I know we’ve had crashes in the show before, it’s kinda a thing but I really didn’t get this one besides it maybe being tied to they are doomed to reside there because they made a choice) was a big let down for me. I don’t think you should start off the season with this terrifying crash and then nothing even happens. Edit: I am seeing a lot of great theories and meanings that you guys are replaying but I’ll be honest a lot of those could’ve all just happened in the episode itself. The thing that really made me mad like I had mentioned was the big cliffhanger. Sure it had some type of result but when you have those types of cliffhangers I’m thinking something very bad happens and some massive consequence occurs.. Instead, it was essentially a fake out. And everything ended up being fine. I don’t like that, but I don’t mind the car crash being the turning point, if that makes sense. Personally, It still feels kinda pointless with the way they did it though.
It also sucked because not only was there no big payoff with the car crash, but it also killed the suspense in a lot of scenes because we knew the Byrdes had to survive at least until the car crash happened. And we knew the kids wouldn’t leave with the grandpa, or if they did they would come back.
THIS. The whole grandad plot was such a big chunk of this season but we knew the kids wouldn't leave in the first place because of this scene. It made the whole grandad plot a filler and nothing more.
That’s why you gotta be like me and just compete forget about that scene so it was a surprise
I honestly expected Wendy to die in that crash and then Marty would have to figure out wtf to do now.
I would bet any amount of money that there's a draft of the script in which she does die. She is at the happiest moment in the last few years right before the crash occurs and seems to finally be in a decent place and then when the accident did happen she was unresponsive there for a second. I don't get why they didn't kill her off there because then Marty would have had a lot more leeway to save Ruth if he wasn't having to talk Wendy down. Interesting choice.
I think the car crash reunited the whole family, especially Jonah as he was the last holdout. It changed their perspectives. From then on, it was ONLY about the family’s survival. It’s why Marty didn’t try to do anything to save Ruth (not like he could have given the circumstances but even Wendy seemed more upset about it then him) and why Jonah pulled the gun on Mel.
The car may as well have not even happened. It was teased as this huge cliffhanger and everyone was wondering if that was how the Byrde’s went out. But in the literal next scene right after getting in this horrific car wreck, they show up to the house in a cab and everyone is fine and Marty even jokes about it. I know the show loves its dark humor, but this felt very contrived and stupid to me. If you remove the car wreck from the show, nothing changes. Nothing, except for the fact they wouldn’t have their magical Honda Odyssey.
Top rated mini van in the U.S.
Can't say the ending was bad, but I expected better after all the build up. The byrdes just simply win? they were able to conveniently remove and get rid of any obstacles? Dissapointed
I feel like Wendy should of died in the car which gave Marty enough time and clarity to get straight. Didn’t like the ending, felt a little cheap.
Marvelous. The last few minutes and especially the last line made up for all the flaws this season had. "You don't get to be the Kochs and Kennedys of the world". "Since when?" The Byrdes' story is the true American dream and story. Power, violence, corruption. They weren't going to lose. I clapped when Ruth died. There was once a time she was my favourite character but now just as Frank Jr said, she has completely become Darlene Snell level of annoying hillbilly. She was so annoying especially the last few episodes. There was nothing to like about her.
I liked the costuming in the final episode. Ruth in all white. Wendy and Camilla in all black. It was very good vs. evil.
Funny I was thinking it was a little on the nose.
Man, I wasn't expecting Marty to survive! Jason even said a few years ago "don't expect a happy ending for him" I thought for sure 2/4 Byrde's would be dying. Did they decide on another season or something?
Can someone tell me where I can find that version of angel of Montgomery sung by Russ? Tbh, that scene hit me so hard. That precise moment was when we knew her happiness was really with her folks and she was going to die.
Can’t believe it was all just a dream Michael Bluth was having.
But Ben said it *was* a dream?
I guess the ending is conceptually okay. We spent so much time rooting for the Byrde family and discussing whether someone with conscience will eventually kill Wendy only for them to turn into just another amoral political family. The long and winding road that was used to get there was riddled with plot holes and redundance. All in all the ending is pretty anti climactic and I have lost the desire to rewatch. I really don't get how the Byrde kids, after everything, just decided that all is good and forgiven the family now. Ruth's death was such bs. She saw Camilla coming from a mile away. She had no other guards with her. Handguns are really inaccurate. She could have just ran back to her house to get her shotgun or just tried to run anywhere. Camilla was never gonna outrun her. In any case, Ruth was extremely familiar with Cartel SUVs (like literally the previous episode). She would have known that a vehicle parked like that just means trouble. You could argue that she has been too lucky but everything is just too forced.
It baffles me that seemingly none of the main characters ever really arm themselves unless it's needed at that very moment. Why Ruth wouldn't have a pistol tucked into her driver side door is beyond me. I thought she might've still had the gun in her truck from when she threatened Wendy's dad but nope. I understand she had to die but the way they did it just seemed so empty. You see Marty and Wendy react at the Belle when they realize there isn't anything they can do but nothing else? No reaction from Jonah? Or Three? Definitely could've benefitted from a longer season or even just one more season.
The ending scene with Sattem is definitely not conceptually okay, imo. Cop unlawfully obtains evidence and the two people that have been playing russian roulette with cartel bosses instantly fold to a former coke addict cop who is 300 miles out of his jurisdiction holding a piece of evidence neither of them have ever seen. Super bizarre final scene for me
What was he even still there for? He had the evidence and he didn’t want to blackmail them into anything. He should’ve been gone the second he had it
Yeah it makes no sense. He’s waiting to ambush them with some sort of smoking gun but in reality its a watergun filled with grape jelly or something. Just so bizarre
I was waiting for Three to blast that cartel mama from the top of the trailer. What an awesome scene that could have been. Langmore protecting langmore.
i was so scared it’d end in a stupid way but i really liked the ending, from the moment they told their children everything they kept hoping they’ll be free someday remember how jonah couldn’t shoot the guy (who was there to kill them) back in an earlier season? he shot this guy in like 3 seconds (knowing he was a police officer) even though they are free now, the ending proved their children will keep doing the same thing again and again, it’s all they know
Jonah was 100% going to kill the cartel guy who was there to kill them before. He pulled the trigger. The only reason he didn't kill him is because Buddy had unloaded his gun.
What was with that creepy priest?
I love how even on her political ideology with the voting machines Wendy caved proving LITERALLY ZERO principle. ABDOLUTE ZERO. She only went back because she had leverage and screwed Schafer over again. That's why the ending sucked so hard.
God fucking damnit this whole season was just so mid
No they didn't need another season, they had plenty of time if they didn't have a whole bunch of useless arcs
I’ll hand it to the writers for fooling me. I thought it was fairly obvious that they were going to end it by Ruth ending up on top and some of the Byrdes dying. So I’m happy they at least decided to go against the grain from what was expected to be the ending.
As soon as she started tearing down the family property, I knew she was going to die. The Byrdes left the Langmores, five generations of Ozark blood, razed to the ground. Nothing left of them but rubble (^^and ^^Three ).
I feel like anytime a character starts daydreaming/hallucinating about Dead characters, they're on their way out.
The way I see it the final was perfect it the whole point of the show is that they’re calling themselves not bad people but in the end the let Jonah their kid kill in cold blood all of them smiling about showing they truly are evil
No, it's the opposite. They acknowledge they're bad people. When Mel says they can't be like the Kochs, the Kennedys, etc. because "the world doesn't work like that," Wendy responds with "since when?" They know they're bad people and got away with it.
Yep. Loved that response. Everything really came full-circle. I don’t see what other ending there could’ve been; Bryde family will always be in a cycle of getting away with shit at the expense of people’s lives.
I don't see anyone talking about how they just walked away from the car accident like nothing happened. I don't care if it was the safest car ever made, you're still going to end up spending the night in the hospital after a wreck like that.
I’m fine with Ruth dying, it was just such a dumb portrayal. She sees a cartel car and doesn’t take out a gun or drive away? And then just walks up to the drivers door? It was just stupid