what is going on to all my ozark fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files elite here today to share with you all my thoughts on ozark season four part two now
this is a very bittersweet moment for me i'm not gonna lie because obviously i'm so excited to be
talking about part two with you all today but i'm also pretty heartbroken because this is one of my
favorite shows of all time but hey all good things must come to an end now the question is did ozark
stick its landing we're going to be discussing that and so much more in today's spoiler free
review but before we get into today's discussion make sure you're checking me out on all my other
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comments let's talk all things ozark from what's your favorite season who's your favorite character
what were some of your favorite overarching themes at the show tackle but let's talk about part
two favorite episode of part two favorite ending to an arc of one of your favorite characters what
was your favorite wtf moment that we got in this part too and of course your thoughts on how it
all ended now this is a spoiler free review so we will be sharing your spoiler thoughts make
sure you put spoiler in your comments and go ahead and leave your thoughts but speaking of
spoilers i will be making a separate video kind of like an indian explain really diving deeper into
that final episode so i'm gonna probably put that video out maybe monday just to give people
enough time to watch this part two so keep an eye out for that video but again this video
no spoilers whatsoever so before we get into my actual thoughts i gotta take the time to thank
the creators bill dubuque and mark williams now i know very early on this show is compared you know
back in 2017 has had its comparisons to another great show one of my favorites of all time as well
and breaking bad but for me ozark found its stride within that second season of course by the third
season it became its own show and i love what the creators have to do what they had to say how they
kind of created this story of greed and vengeance and what people would be willing to do to protect
their family but also i want to thank the creators from from just really changing my perspective of a
particular actor by the name of jason bateman now i've always been a fan of jason bateman but i've
always looked at him as the funny guy right but not until i saw ozark and took him more seriously
as an actual fantastic actor but also a fantastic director so i have a newfound appreciation for
jason bateman based on ozark laura lenny always been a fan of hers but i absolutely loved her
love to hate her in the role that she portrayed as wendy and i call them the big three wendy
marty and my favorite character ruth laymore played by julia gardner who has won so many
awards and deservingly show what a fantastic character and this show not only has those
great actors that i just mentioned but supporting characters from your charlotte's and jonah's your
darlene's and jacobs your omar navarros and whole drug cartel the different you know kc mob angle
and all the different helens of the world so many colorful fantastic layered supporting characters
the show is just fantastic a separate note here if you all have seen the news netflix are losing
subscribers left and right and it's shows like ozark it shows like dark it shows like umbrella
academy it shows like you know stranger things and and all the different you know orange is the
new black that will keep this streaming platform number one now keep making those great shows squid
games stuff like that stop making these garbage shows and start implementing more things with
netflix to kind of keep the subscribers going but that's another conversation for another day but
again i just want to take the moment to thank the creators for giving me one of my favorite
shows of all time now hey that's my thoughts prior to getting into this part two review now getting
into the actual conversation i got to start off by talking about as i just mentioned this show
to me is based on the performances and i want to start off by talking about jason bateman himself
who did a beautiful job directing some episodes in his final part two but also him playing martin or
should i say marty bird i've always been a fan of marty and just seeing the progression of the
character from season one all the way up to this final part two and there's things that we see in
part two that really shape who marty has become all the lessons he's learned up into this point i
won't say what and obviously when you see the show you'll know what i'm talking about but there is a
new position that marty's given and he has a lot on his shoulders and he makes a decision that
will forever change him and will affect his family as well which again you'll know what i'm talking
about when you see it so again just seeing what he was willing to do in this final part
there are several moments that we'll talk about here that at points i almost feel like he was
jacob snell in regards to how is similar and also how different the relationship between
marty and wendy is and how that compares to jacob and darlene but again marty was just fantastic i
love what he was willing to do what he had to do what decisions he had to make some tough
conversations he had with his family members and particularly wendy and also charlotte just
a fantastic character what a great performance by the great jason bateman and i really enjoyed what
they did with mario this season but hey can't talk about marty without talking about wendy bird who
i know a lot of people hate wendy and they're deservingly so because she has made some really
frustrating decisions but she to me is almost like in the same vein of a cersei lannister she
is just so ruthless up until this point and there are moments in this part two that i'm just looking
at wendy like i'm terrified of her like i don't know which side of the coin she lands on and there
are points in this season and there's been points in other parts of the show where i'm like i don't
think marty should be trusting her and there are a lot of moments in this part too that we get to
that revelation but speaking of revelation there are so many moments in this part too
that wendy berg we really kind of explore her mental state her having a breakdown but more in
particularly all the stuff that's led to this point whether it's decisions she made with ben
whether it's the decision she's makes to what the hell is the world to get the everyone from claire
and shaw you know pharmaceutical company to her relationship with omar there is those all kind
of created this moment into facing the person that she hated the most feared the most at the
same time in the relationship she has with her father who goes by the name of nathan who we met
you know in part one and nathan has a lot more to do in this part too and just seeing wendy
at her highest points in parts of this part two but also at her lowest points in this part too
and i thought again laura linney who she delivers some incredible like i think this is probably her
best performance and i thought season three was because that's where we kind of saw the switch
in the character heard letting the power get to their head omar telling her embrace the power
remember the power but i think this part too she's never been better she's never been more frustrated
but she's never been more vulnerable never been more uh powerful and also at a low point wendy was
fantastic but i mentioned my favorite character is ruth laymore and she is there's no one
more scarier than a ruth laymore that is on a tale of vengeance and that's a theme that we'll
talk about here revenge is something very focal and very important in this season but seeing
ruth trying to break that laymore curse and trying to right her wrongs trying to be clean trying to
do things that will put her and compromise her wow i mean she deserves all the awards she's gotten
and she has more awards to come because i think as i mentioned i think this is the best whitney
performance i think this is easily the best roof that we've seen to date and just from the episode
eight which is the first episode of part two i'll just say ruth is uh she's illmatic she is illmatic
and in that first episode episode 8 really kind of displays her capabilities and what she's doing
this season and through throughout the rest of the season there are some questionable things i have
about what they did with the character but at the end of the day julia gardner is absolutely perfect
in the role and she just had a fantastic journey to end this fantastic show so those three really
stood out to me and of course like i mentioned the the birds kids they weren't as heavily involved
but there are some things they do in this part too that really kind of made me happy like okay
they have grown they have learned to kind of get involved into the family business at a much more
higher level i'll just kind of leave it at that so i enjoyed that and one of my biggest
criticisms with the show and i'll talk about it a little bit later i'm not a big fan of the the
police force in this show like how they portray the fbi they just seemed so you know i wasn't
i wasn't a petty fan i thought maya was okay how they tried to implement her baby and all that but
the only force like character or police force character that i think really had a good
tie to the story and was very pivotal to the story is the pi by the name of male who we met in part
one he shakes the tree and he does something that petty didn't do that maya didn't do he went for
the family and you all know what i'm talking about if you saw part one him hold the whole
figuring out what happened with ben but let's just say he knows how to shake that tree and he
he got to the core of marty and wendy and i'll just kind of leave it at that so i do appreciate
what mel brought to this season and also there's a couple other new players on the corridors to say
players that we've heard of characters that we heard of but they have more to do
in this part too i mentioned the relationship between wendy and her father nathan it is toxic
it is complicated it is frustrating and it is hard to watch in the best way possible but also there
is a character by the name of camilla navarro who is omar's sister and also the mother of javi who
javi has some things to do in this season not as much as he did in part one and you'll see why when
you see the season but his mother is a perfect mix of her brother omar and also her son javi and i
thought camilla you thought that omars and all the other characters that we got throughout the season
you thought they were ruthless she's cold-blooded and she's calculated i'll just kind of say that i
thought that her relationship with her brother was very reminiscent to how i feel about wendy
and her brother ben and i just i just love the dynamic of the family but also the themes that
this particular part tackle with family what you're willing to do for your family in the
story of revenge now you can look at revenge from many different standpoints whether it's nathan to
his daughter wendy whether that's roof going at wendy whether it's omar and there's other things
that we get revealed camilla dealing with certain things that happen happened the show there is a
lot of revenge and the theme that i loved about this show how far are you willing to get what
you want or think you deserve and how far are you willing to protect your family even if that
means harming your family and that's something that this particular part two really tackled
and i very much enjoyed what they had to say about those relationships and those dynamics especially
ruth and wendy this season they're at each other's throats and it is just an acting tour
de france between those two actresses and they were absolutely fantastic so transitioning to
some things that maybe didn't really work for me this season i i've never been a fan of the
police force i thought the fbi portrayals have been really poorly handled wasn't a fan of petty
thought maya was a step up but still wasn't all the way there but i mentioned how i like mail but
the mail maya stuff to me didn't really completely work for me in regards to how they played in their
relationship and what they had to kind of do this season mail worked but maya just didn't really
work for me and they kind of left her storyline a little bit for more to be desired the drug cartel
i've always appreciated what this show brought to the table from the different iterations of okay
you thought that season one the big bad was this character name we meet omar navarro then you meet
javi and then you meet his sister in this part i just feel like when it comes to their threatening
nature it's very inconsistent because we only get like there's honestly only one or two different
goons that we met throughout the show one you you all know nelson who's you know involved in a
season there's a priest that gets involved in this new part but i always felt like the drug cartel
just from a threatening standpoint and just from like worrying for our characters lives and their
safety it just was very up and down like some points i'm like oh you don't want to piss them
off then i'm on the point i'm like you guys are just telling them what to do and they're pretty
much they even say it in this season the druid cartel are like pencil pushers and i'm like okay
you guys might portray it in that light from the show but i just wasn't a fan of how they handled
the drug cartel and how there never really felt like a sense of like an army like i never felt
like certain characters carried around a certain amount of goons per se to really kind of justify
like them being a powerful individual and when you see this season you'll kind of get when i'm
you kind of see what i'm referring to in regards to that but there are several moments where my
jaw was on the ground there are a lot of cameos to look forward to that i like that ties back to the
original uh season one and two and um yeah i i want to mention this part before i wrap up
the more i thought about the ending the actual last frame of the episode of the show i say
episode 14. i was a little bit underwhelmed but then the more i thought about how that
ties into that particular character what it means for that character and how they set it
up i actually like the way it ended but i will just say this it doesn't this is a negative or
positive but i feel like the ending for a lot of people will be very divisive but i have come to
appreciate it now again we'll talk about that more in spoilers but overall before i wrap things up if
you haven't already make sure you like the review share it leave your thoughts in the comments
overall part two for me at the end of the day it did stick to landing i thought emotionally
it worked the story arcs came together and came to fruition there are many callbacks to previous
seasons that came to fruition there is we all remember from part one the very first frame of
part one episode one comes back into fruition in a very interesting manner there's a lot of
themes that i love that this particular part tackled in regards to what you're willing to
do for your family what you're willing to do for greed and what you're willing to do to get your
revenge i thought that was beautifully displayed and i can't stress it enough
wendy marty and ruth all those main characters that i feel are the focal points and the leads of
the show had a incredible arc and had a satisfying conclusion to their stories and again i can't talk
about certain conclusions because i want to leave that for the spoilers but for the end of the day
as a fan of the show from 2017 up to this point i am happy to say that i think that this still is
one of the best shows of all time in my personal opinion but hey that's just my spoiler free
opinion let me know yours in the comments again my favorite episode is probably episode eight uh like
i said it was very illmatic my favorite character arc was what we got with ruth and i do like how
things ended now again i mention my cons but let me know your thoughts in the comments below again
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you did it i love the show netflix make more of these shows so you can keep things going but at
the end of the day ozark was a fantastic journey and i'm so excited to be a part of the journey
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