'Ozark' Season 3 Review

And so we return to Lake of the Ozarks, where Marty and Wendy's marriage is crumbling and the cartel is becoming more ruthless. For MEL, I reviewed the latest season of Ozark.

Some Thoughts on the Second Season of 'Ozark'

Over at MEL, I wrote about....

1) Denial
2) Snobbery
3) The St. Louis Cardinals
4) Kansas City's mob history
5) The Family Fang
6) All of the above

If you guessed (6), you are correct. My thoughts on the latest season of Ozark can be found right here.

On Jason Bateman's Dark Turn in 'Ozark'

Jason Bateman has been doing some of his best work of late. I quite liked him in The Gift, and I thought his second directorial effort, The Family Fang, was a huge improvement over the massively lame Bad Words. (And this, of course, isn't even mentioning Arrested Development, which rejuvenated his career nearly 15 years ago.)

He's now the star and one of the executive producers of the Netflix series Ozark, which is about a financial advisor from Chicago who has to move his family to the Ozarks after the drug kingpin he's been working for accuses him of skimming off the top. There's a strong Breaking Bad quality to Ozark, but Bateman doesn't go full Walter White. He brings his own take to the dark-antihero trope, which I talk about over at MEL.