Ozark
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Im taking it onecatastropheat a time.
And now were at the fallout from the last two episodes.
Javi chose to murder Darlene and Wyatt.
Ruth chose to murder Javi.
New bosses, same as the old bosses.
The presumption would be that the Mexican leadership of the cartel would replace Javi, but with whom?
Would it be someone who works with the Byrdes and Claire Shaw?
Or just someone who kills them all?
Wendy starts the episode with a stiff drink.
Who can blame her?
Theres a fantastic exchange between Bateman and Linney discussing the deep hole life has thrown them into.
He says, I didnt know she was going to kill him.
She replies, Then youre a fucking idiot.
He believes they destroyed Ruths life, and its an interesting thing to consider.
Go rewatch season one.
Even here, she refuses to let go of the Shaw deal until she knows its dead.
Have some fucking faith, she says, not realizing that she rarely has any in Marty.
After that excellent prologue, Pick a God and Pray gets back to the Ozarks.
Ruth tells Three that its over.
She can finally sleep.
As Javis people start questioning Claire about his location, someone calls Mel to come back to the Ozarks.
It turns out that Nathan Davis, played by the great Richard Thomas, is back.
As if Wendy doesnt have enough problems.
Remember how Mel and Maya were going to team up at the end of the first half-season.
Well, now Nathan, searching for his missing son Ben, can add some fuel to that fire.
Speaking of missing kids, remember Zeke?
He could do 18 months and work for her as an informant.
She thinks hes kidding.
Youre just another criminal to me now.
Get out of my office.
Another lifeboat off the sinking ship that is the Byrde empire has floated away.
Omar Navarro has a visitor.
A character who seemed like he could be done is thrust back into the spotlight.
She met with the FBI, Javi has disappeared, and Omar is sick of Wendys shit.
She knows where Javi is.
She knows who killed him.
Hes furious shes even talking to him.
He gets angry enough to rise and yell.
I will kill you, Wendy!
I will find a way!
The idea is that she is the puppet master here, not him.
Marty goes to Ruth to ask what to do with Wyatts body.
After all, the Byrdes own the only funeral home in town.
Of course, Wyatt didnt have plans for his death.
So they decide to put on a service for him.
The funeral is sad, including a vision of Wyatt and Ruth digging the grave.
Theyre exhausted, but it ends with them laughing.
Wyatt could always do that for Ruth.
They must resecure Omars power in Mexico.
Marty has to convince the cartel that Omar killed Javi.
Is this setting up an endgame for the series in which Marty Byrde is a Mexican drug lord?
Ruth comes out with a shotgun.
Life tip: Dont blackmail someone who just killed in cold blood.
As Ruth considers this, Marty heads to Mexico and learns that Omar promised to kill them all.
After all of his risk analysis, is Wendy Byrde the one risk he never considered enough?
Maya can join the show too because they have really cute chemistry.
It would be like a newMoonlighting.
Something is terrifying about the serene delivery of Bruno Bichir as Father Benitez, right?
It feels like he could be comfortable telling you how this is Gods will as he slits your throat.
Hell bring another kind of danger to the final run.
Well know soon enough which ones they avoid.
