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Holy snapping duck poopoo. I think I have my new addiction after Breaking Bad. The score alone gave me a migraine. Fantastic.

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No takers? 3 episodes in and I'm totally hooked. Bateman is amazing - I never got the appeal until now. (non spoilery gifs)

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It showed up on my Netflix feed. I might have to give it a whirl now.

I love it. So damn intense, and Bateman's character is as cool as a cucumber. I'm not a huge fan of Linney but she's really good in this, and so are the kids. The redneck chic is also really good, and the big bad is awesome. Not sure if I've seen Esai Morales before.

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Muy caliente.

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LOL D, there's a gay BJ. The fanbois will be having a collective meltdown a la Hollywood's agenda to shove it down my throat. Brings back good ole memories from the AHS board.

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I'm on episode 4. It's very addictive if ridiculous. That said, Breaking Bad was ridiculous at times, and that's top 5.

It's pretty ridiculous from the get go with money launderers stealing from a psycho drug lord, but humans are ridiculous. I just love what a fast thinker Marty is. And so damn chilled out.

He's perfect for the role

Isnt he. And so is she because I've always found her a bit high strung and almost hysterical in her roles.
Woah what a pilot. Memo to self : never ever EVER get involved with crazy assed drug lords.

She' amazing. A really good solid actress. She's sensational in Primal Fear.

Can't wait to watch the rest of this.

I'm so addicted I could binge the next 7 episodes today, and I dont like binge watching on a first go. Plus it's monday so I cant.

Peter Mullan just turned up in it too. I adore him, ace actor.

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Do you know who the 2 actors who play the gays are? They dont look familiar. That bj scene was pretty impressive - what a cold bastard.

The Fed? He was in Ray Donovan. But I kind of stopped watching that a while ago.

I havent seen that.

It's pretty meh. Not a patch on Ozark.

I really like the location of this (minus the rednecks)

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Found him. Jason Butler Harner

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Question about the bobcats - why did redneck psycho chic want them to have tackle?

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Spoiler for episode 5

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Where are you finding this show? I never heard of it.

It's a netflix original. I hadnt heard of it either until some BB fans started maniacally raving about it.

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Thanks! Will check it out then.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gotta rewatch Westworld first, though! I need to make a graphic chart for @Sedai to better illustrate my views on character arcs. See, I haven't forgotten about you!!!

lol

Westworld should be named Rewatchworld.

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I only have 2 left. Episode 7 has a pretty epic scene. I might have yelped a lil bit.

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Finished it last night. I saw someone post that it's like breaking bad but different. I dont think it's like BB at all to be honest, unless you count dealing with the big bad from a cartel. Totally different. Violence - tick. Filthy language - tick but I didnt find it overdone. Seemed to work well for rednecks and stressed out city slickers. Sex - not just shoved in there for absolutely no reason and not porny. Well shot and just feels like it is what it is in a natural flow. Skin - well there is a strippers'
bar so yes, but once again it felt natural. Doesnt have the light, hilarious moments of BB but I dont think it needs it.

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I thought that all the finance wizards lived in Fargo!

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I just could not get past the first 30 minutes of Breaking Bad but every one raves about it. I guess I'll have to give it a couple hours to see if I can get what's up.

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This certainly is not like Breaking Bad at all - but it is pretty damn good.

The last 3 episodes were great and everything played out very well.

I really hated the "Wendy" character the whole series with the exception of what happened at the end - it was unpredictably predicable.

I would totally recommend this to thriller lovers.

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I like Wendy. She is a fire cracker!

How so?

Her dead animal toss was cool and all but she seemed so "damp"

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My mistake. I'm just into the 4th episode and was thinking of Ruth ( For some reason I thought that she had introduced herself as " Wendy " at the strip club audition ). Wendy ( the wife ) I can't stand. Reminds me a friend's uppity wife. Unreasonably entitled and demanding and no feelings of remorse.

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Lol, my thoughts exactly

Eh? How so? She's a city slicker who was dragged to redneck riviera by her dead fish husband who launders millions for a mexican cartel trying to keep her kids alive and living with an old dying man who walks around with his arse swinging in the breeze. Not exactly a pleasant person I'd like to meet for lunch every week but she's a great mother and is fast a thinker as Marty is. They're perfect together. No feelings of remorse? Maybe I'm speaking from hindsight but I think you have that a bit wrong. They're both just closed off from themselves and each other.

Ruth is great but soooo damaged.

What's the difference between a redneck and a hillbilly? We dont have those terms here.

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He was faith full for 22 years. She threw her cheating in his face. Not only did she not care but she wasn't even aware of how much it bothered him. Hell, she felt she was entitled to cheat. The ironic thing is that she is nothing special to begin with. Miscast for that role, which I think required a sexier looking woman.

How did you get that? Entitled - the rage of the MRA. As for she should have been sexier - what does that even mean? Linney was perfectly cast. You dont like her and that's fine but your rant does not compute. Sorry.

Let me guess - you stopped watching breaking bad because Skylar made you want to kill someone because she was so 'entitled'. LOL. The 'I fked Ted' scene would have sent you over the edge, dude.

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Like I said. I couldn't get into Breaking Bad. The first 30 minutes were boring, so I stopped watching it.
I am a little confused. I don't know if you are a boy or a girl but it does not really matter; you should know what sexy means.
Linney certainly is not sexy, at least to me, physically nor the way she moves and behaves.
If I was the casting director, she would not have even made it to the audition. She is a fine actress but was cast against type for this role.
As I am reading the script, I all ready know what I am looking for and she is not it.
Granted, people differ in their tastes so this is just my own subjective view. A seductive adultress milf is integral to the story line and I just don't see that from her.

Ten years a go, Elisabeth Hurley would have been perfect for that part. That's how I would have seen Wendy!

Lovely looking photography.

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I'm neither a boy or a girl. I'm an adult, which should be pretty obvious because this show and BB are not exactly suitable for boys and girls, and you're right, I should know what sexy is although I never commented on her being sexy; that just seems like a very strange throwaway line. She's a middle aged mother of a teen and pre teen, dresses in frumpy clothes, going through a midlife crisis, sprung by her husband seeking intimacy with an older, dull lawyer who she wasnt in love with, not a young, hip super model, and trying to keep her kids alive. What part of that needs to be sexy, and a sexy milf to boot? It's probably a good thing you arent a casting agent though. Liz Hurley cant act. And not sure if you've read the whole thread but in one of my earliest posts I said I'm not even a fan of Linney usually. I just dont understand why you thought a sexy actress was integral to the story. Doesnt bother me if you dont like her or the character but your sexy angle I think is right off point.

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I'm not sure what I think about this show, but I'll be watching the next season, for sure. Frankly, that first episode was SO dark, and I had no motivation to root for any of those characters. What got me to watch the second (and subsequent) episodes was solely Bateman.

It's still dark (which is where comparisons to BB fall short -- BB had genuinely silly moments in nearly every episode, even if it was a sort of dry, dark humor), but a lot of Ozark is just depressing or suffocating in its tension. And yet, I kept watching.

At first, many of the characters (especially the residents of the Ozarks) seemed like caricatures and stereotypes, which was another reason I wasn't inclined to love the show. Then they became more subtly nuanced and started to seem like real people. And yes, Marty's ability to weasel or talk his way out of anything is a glorious thing to behold and well worth watching the entire series for.

I have to agree with Des on the miscasting of Linney in this... and I *like* Linney, generally. In real life, she's about five years older than Bateman, but Bateman has this perpetual youthfulness about him that makes that age gap in the show seem a lot bigger. I think her *attitude* for this character is spot on -- especially the earlier episodes before they begin to work together a little bit. Whatever her reasons for cheating on Marty, *she* feels they're justified (he's working too much, apparently) and that shows. By the end of the season, what she does at the tail end of that last episode is surprising (I didn't really see it coming) but yet makes sense and vindicates her in a lot of ways.

I too think a slightly younger, more vibrant actress might have been a better choice, but I'm not willing to die on that hill.

I found I had to watch this at certain times of day when the darkness of it wasn't going to interfere with things like sleep. It is just so ominous nearly all the time that I found it tough to watch late at night, which is my preferred binge time.

Still, as I said, I'll be back for season 2.

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It is very suffocating, and maybe I was too intense with it but I didnt catch any dark humour like in BB. I've been trying to persuade Yoda to check it out.

And nup, cant agree a younger vibrant actress would have worked for me. Made it all the more tragic that he shut her out in her older years which sent her to her older lover. I totally agree on the end scene, though.

As for stereotyping, I was actually going to ask why redneck chicks re always so cute, but her potty mouth and ghostly skin with dark shadows under them sort of takes away from the cuteness so I forgot about it. The gay reveal I really loved and thought it was done without steretopyes on either side.

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Mr D is now halfway. He also thought the gay reveal was very well handled.

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Ok, so you are an adult. Still don't know if you are a man or woman. Maybe you just want to remain asexual and that's fine. Was just trying to figure out where you were coming from.
The sexuality is important in this TV Series because the lack of it between the two central characters underlines their discord.
If Wendy was sexier it would be easier to understand why he doesn't leave her arrogant ass.
Also, if they want to throw in sex scenes relevant to story line, the female should be sexy. I am a male so I enjoy seeing sexy females and not some frumpy middle age woman that leaves nothing to be desired when she takes her clothes off.
Take for example the TV Series The Americans. The female lead is a mother as well as a spy and killer but she is also sexy. I can relate to that.
Any way, every one has an opinion. Whether or not they agree is irrelevant, but we are here to voice ours, aren't we?

Wut? My gender has nothing to do with it. And I didnt say you couldnt voice your opinion. I just completely disagree with you and voiced that. He didnt 'leave her arrogant ass' because he loves her and the children. Oh and she doesnt take her clothes off so no need to fear having your soul destroyed. As for The Americans - never seen it, dont care. This is not about whoever that character is.

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So what is it about?

Huh? Ozark is about Ozark, not some other show. I have no idea where this is going but looks like fun.

Meanwhile, back in Ozark...

Were we not talking about the relevance of sexuality to Wendy's character before you decided to sound all grown up and lost focus? It's all right. I'll just let you be.

LOL. Sexuality was never mentioned. You said she was badly cast because you dont think she's sexy. Maybe you should acquaint yourself with what sexy and sexuality mean. Thanks for letting me be. I'm so humbled by your approach.

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Dani8 is aquokka. Period. They live on a plane beyond ourbmortslnunderstsndings .

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I meant @Dani8

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Idont even know wtc this thread is about. Just saw it pop up on the list.

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Oh wait! I posted on page 2. Lol I know now!

LOL. I washed your mind along with my cartel moolah.

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The gin helped.
Perms-press setting GO!! DAMN I gotta quote. Wait. Ok @smdani.

Do they drink gin on this show? I did not see any here

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I gotta do it man. Mexico, s'all I'm sayin. Mic drop

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Esai Morales! from Bad Boys with Sean Penn! He looked familiar-- it was killing me

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I believe I am on the eighth episode of Ozark, while I really enjoy Jason Bateman as an actor, and think he's a perfect fit for this type of character, I found the show itself to be rather ho-hum. I don't find myself really caring very much about all the moving cogs and find that it often moves very fast, but I never really feel invested into where it's headed. It has good in it, but I don't think every really found the rhythm or means to dignify itself as great. I've heard a lot of comparisons to Breaking Bad, a series, for which, I consider myself a big supporter of, but I find that, beside the initial surface similarities, the shows feel very different from one another, and as a fan of Breaking Bad, I did not find myself to be a fan of Ozark.

Finished it last night. The Finale was a stunning piece of TV. It's not going to be on a par with The Sopranos, The Wire etc. The bodycount is large, and there are some WTF moments. But as a piece of fast moving, entertaining tv it does the job.

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Yeah I actually said quite early on it;s nothing like BB. Chalk and cheese with some drugs and money thrown in.

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Renewed for season 2 :up:

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Just because

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My gf wanted to watch this so we just watched the first episode. Solid start, nothing amazing but very few shows are right away. Big fan of Bateman and i think Laura Linney is one of the best working actresses. Will probably finish this over the next week or so.

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Episode two was solid again. Not 100% on board yet. Think it's mainly shaking the image of Michael Bluth and just Arrested Development in general. The part when he buys the five catfish and the guy asks "aren't you going fishing?" "well now i've got a good head start" was a total Arrested Development bit to me haha, felt weird that we didn't hear the music and Ron Howards narration. Should be able to get over that though, same sort of thing has happened with other shows. It's also that he is kinda like Michael so far, the first two episodes are basically him floating about fixing his family and colleagues mistakes just under a serious tone and with actual consequences.

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Ewww. Anyone for a friday eve (sat morn) cocktail?

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The brothers bought the bobcats to breed them. They were so dumb they bought two females. Ruth immediately saw that.

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Good time to start a rewatch.

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My wife found this today and we're going to start it. I have always liked Bateman and the synopsis is very appealing to me. I'm not going to read through the thread yet.

Enjoy, Cricket.

3 episodes in. I like it and my wife likes it more. I do think it's pretty dumb with average to mediocre acting. I can't picture it getting great but I think I'll enjoy the whole season.

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I was the opposite - probably the first time I've liked Linney, and really took notice of Bateman who I really liked in this. Liked the kids as well, and Esai Morales. Infact I didnt have an issue with any of them. Hope you both continue liking it.:up:

The main actors are mostly fine but I think some of the supporting performances are lacking; the Feds, rednecks, real estate agent, etc.

Yeah I really liked Julia Garner (redneck chick) and cant remember which episode is a reveal so I'll reserve for later, and also really liked Jason Butler Harner who is one of the feds, but no one else stands out as super good or bad to me which is a good thing for my viewing. Mother redneck was pretty good I thought. Looking forward to see where season 2 goes.

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I watched a bit of this. My dad was really into it but all I could think was that Peter Mullan was playing his exact same character as Top of the Lake.

It might be a while before I give this a serious go. I got The Crown to finish up and i don’t get to sit down and commit to shows during Christmas/New Year’s.

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I hvent seen TofL yet so dont know how they compare.

I watched episode 1 again just for the flying scene. Ouch.

He’s had quite a few roles where, essentially, he is playing the same angry man. Took me a while to get used to his accent in Ozark, but ended up enjoying him in his role. It’s an excellent show.

Peter Mullan shows up, funny since the last show I watched was Top of the Lake. Anyway, episode 4 was probably the best yet.

Makes me want a rewatch. I really liked 4 as well.

Just finished the season. It got better and better until it got awesome. As much as I liked it, my wife liked it more. Looking forward to season 2.

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@cricket, season 2 on Netflix is available for streaming.

We watched the first two episodes so far. A lot of it seems so preposterous but we love it.

Episode 7 went off track and I didn't think it was very good.

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Terrible show.

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I thought eppy 7 was intense & amazing.

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I just started this and because I can't write good n' stuff.


+ Bateman playing Bateman always Bateman I watch Bateman
+ The everybody has a plan until they get punched in face, i.e. the first episode events setting things in place. Bateman's character solution was entertaining...
+ The characters. The family. The Bubba family (?) there I go stereotyping people :D . I have an idea on them and I hope it's true. GoT style.


- The absurdity of how "criminal information" is devolved. I never claimed to be a Tuffy Rhoades, but my experience in real life is that doesn't happen. Especially if you are dealing with a Cartel that operates on a psychopathic level with a double digit exponent. I don't know if "lazy writing" is the term, but maybe this is what you have to do to keep scenes tight.


- Bateman doesn't have the fear. Am I suppose to believe that because of the initial ordeal and his "family plan", that he is a top tier confrontational negotiator... in real life, where real life circumstances are in play?


In summation, I don't watch t.v. during the week. I'll watch an episode of this before I go to bed :highfive:



And I love that it made Dani happy.

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Are you saying that an FBI agent would never assault anyone?

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Obviously he would have been vetted, but people change. Naïve, I think, to suppose there are no nuts in the FBI because we know there are in the CIA. :rolleyes:

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Finished Season 2 and....


- This is the most absurd "realistic" show I have every watched. In the moment not so crazy, but when you reflect on the stuff :busey:
- I didn't expect S2 to be better, but I think the culmination of a lot stuff really pushed it ahead. Curious to how they keep ramping up the intensity after so many things were resolved.


- Probably the best show I've ever seen where it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I am so ready to roll with it.

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Can’t wait for season 3. Great show.