re: Ozark Finale Discussion **SPOILERS FOR SERIES FINALE!**

We finished it this weekend and I don't have much to add that hasn't already been mentiond here. REally lousy finish and honestly the entire last season was a chore to get through. Season 1 was SO DAMN GOOD, I mean it wans't quite breaking bad but it wasn't THAT far below it IMO. Then it just consistently declind all the way to the finish line. There was just entirely too much shite going on ALL THE TIME to really even stay engaged in. As for the ending and final season

-They haphazardly throw together 2 characters right at the end. We've known camila for like 3 episodes, why should anyone care about her? We don't even know her. Why as the view should we care whether her or omar wins?

-bringing back rachel..what? I undersatnd they pikced her instaed of a random new cast because she has a history and would want ot screw over the byrdes. But this is a woman that has fought hard to copmletely move on from the ozark life and start fresh, and it looks liek she's healthy and happy in miami. So one visit from ruth and the next day she's on a plane to the ozarks to work around drugs and booze in a casino like she just escaped from? Did she quit her job? What about her home? Did she move back permanently?

-the shaw medical lady..I just never really cared about her or her story.

-In the first season the cartel was represented by Del and that guy was scary. He's replaced by navarro who just seems like a potbellied hispanic guy you'd see at a neighborhood bbq. Then at the very end we get his sister who is even less scary. Shouldn't we be fearful of these cahracters? Also something tells me that if omar was in prison as a 100% direct result of the byrdes putting them there, they wouldn't still be living

-Marty running the cartel? Come the frick on. I mean i know this show requires some disbelief but that takes the cake. Whitebread marty byrde is going to go to mexico and RUN THE CARTEL? ANd he sits down with them one by one going over each person's books like a math teacher checking their students' work.

-The local PD still doesn't really seem all that concerned that the former sherriff is missing even though they presumably know where he was going the last time he was alive.

-Ozark was awesome when you had the byrdes in town trying to launder money for the cartel and a cast of smart but hillbilly locals getting in their way like the langmores and the snells. That was tense TV drama. But then you introduce more cartel people, the KC mob, a PI, a pharmaceutical company executive, jonah byrd working for a competing operation, a casino boat, the FBI, Wendy entering politics in a way that I still don't even really understand, etc...it's just too damn much. There were far too many storylines going on at one and all seemed ot be resolved just as quickly as they crop up.

-WTF WAS THE POINT OF THE CAR CRASH

-Lastly I know the town PD is on the take but at some point they would just invent something to arrest the byrdes on considering what's happened in the town in teh short time since they arrived. The ozarks was not perfect and did have this illicit activity oging on (that cops knew about) pre-byrds but since they arrived there is a laundry list of locals that have died, and that's not even counting people that law enforcement doesn't even know about like Del for instance. But ones they are/shoudl be aware of off the top of my head: jacob snell, their employee Ash, he sleezy strip club owner, the pastor's wife, darlene, wyatt, ruths' dad I think?, , the former sherriff, ben, and probably countless others. At some point PD would be like "man everyone the byrdes associate with dies, I wonder if that's a coincidence"