Ozark
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Look, its Martys business partner, Bruce Liddell (shot in the head).
Look, its Wendys boyfriend, Gary Silverberg (thrown off a Chicago balcony).
The father-son trucking-company owners that Marty works with?
Ozarkalso opens with a bit of a fake out.
There are two key lines: I think most people just have a fundamentally flawed view of money.
Its a means to an end, a tool of his profession that can give his family safety.
The other key line: Money is, at its essence, that measure of a mans choices.
Its also where viewers learn that Marty and Wendy have been married for 22 years.
After dinner, Wendy makes chitchat while Marty watches the footage again.
He doesnt call her out.
Does he just not have the emotional vocabulary right now?
Is it possible theres a part of Marty that relishes the control he knows hes now been given?
For Marty, its always a little bit of both.
He considers that Wendys infidelity has given him license to do the same.
But thenOzarkdrops us into the action with a call from Bruce.
Surprise, Martys a money launderer for a Mexican drug cartel!
Its just the first time shes been caught.
Its a laundering paradise with a ton of coastline and hundreds of cash-heavy tourists every year.
Its out of the spotlight and sick with clean money to launder the dirty stuff.
Marty makes promises: Five years, $500 million.
Nothing but washed money.
But to wash that much money, Marty needs to move quickly.
Poor Gary is thrown from high rise apartment and splatters on the ground.
It turns out Del was fishing.
It sets the table for a show about reading people, anticipating and noticing changes in their patterns.
Its a valuable lesson Marty takes with him for the rest of the series.
It turns out that Bruce was about to rat on everyone, including Marty, to the FBI.
By the way, where is Marty?
Hes driving into the Ozarks, where he stops to take a leak.
As his family joins him, theres a sense that this is an open space for a new start.
They are tiny figures in a big new world.
Fans will learn that Wendy is very familiar with this part of the country.
Chicagoans will tell you that Marty driving from his meeting with the P.I.
to see Wendy at Aqua Tower makes almost no sense.
Maybe its another case of city geography getting a little hinky on a major show or film.
Why name the series premiere after Wendys slang to describe Garys penis?
Everything means something else even Sugarwood.
