This article contains spoilers for Ozark season 4.
Here is how everything goes down in Ozark’s last act.
Javi’s Short Time on Top
Ruth follows Marty and Wendy to Chicago where the couple is finalizing a deal with Javi that will give him further power in the drug game. Despite Marty’s pleas to Ruth to back off and cool down (he tells her she’s not this type of person), Ruth will not let go of her grudge. When Wendy sees this, she calls Javi into the room to allow the execution to happen.
The whole thing is very oddly placed on the first watch. It leaves the viewers wondering how the program will move forward in the next six episodes, but in typical Ozark fashion, things continue to spiral out of control for all of the characters we’ve come to love (and hate). With Omar in prison and Javi dead, it is up to Marty to take control of the cartel down in Mexico while Wendy tries to get Omar out of prison stateside.
The show loves to introduce many different storylines at the beginning of a season, and they always coalesce in perfect fashion at the end. The issue with this choice for a final season is that the remaining episodes before the series finale feel like they create more questions than answer them. This makes the home stretch feel a little anticlimactic.
Wendy’s Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Family Tree
Ruth’s Fate Has Always Been Sealed
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How Ozark Differs From Other Crime Dramas
It’s the perfect way for the series to end, and stand in contrast to the series that influenced it. Sometimes, bad people do get away with everything. You could argue that their consequence is turning their son into a cold-blooded murderer, but even then they feel no shame in that. Marty and Wendy simply feel they did what had to be done. They made their choice to join the drug game, and they weaseled their way out with guile and cold-hearted decision-making.
Remember that famous Jesse Pinkman meme: he can’t keep getting away with it? The clip is perfectly transposed onto this show, leaving the viewers to feel the same way about Marty and Wendy as the credits roll for the final time. Yes indeed, Marty and Wendy can keep getting away with it. They just did yet again.
