"Know thyself" was the phrase inscribed on the temple of Apollo that hasn't stopped hammering on human consciousness ever since. Ozark is a series that thinks it knows itself, and it doesn't. You sense it from the first chapter, back in 2017, and it continues to happen in this fourth and final season divided into two parts.
It is a series that comes off badly when compared to series like Breaking Bad, Narcos or Fariña. Fictions that also deal with how drug trafficking shapes the lives of anyone who gets close to this multi-million dollar business until their existence becomes something unreal, as apparently attractive as it is uncontrollable. Ozark wants to use the slow pace it deems necessary to savor the delicacy it thinks it is offering the viewer. It has a first-rate cast in which Julia Garner, who has won two Emmy awards for this series, stands out, and a budget that allows it to show off every frame.
What's wrong with this series is the imposition, an excess of self-confidence disguised as shocking scenes of violence and sappiness, and characters more perverse than witty. The family portrait does not overcome some implausible twists and the plot lacks the momentum and twists of a major series. There remain some glimmers of what could have become of this series from creators Mark Williams and Bill Dubuque who, in recent years, have barely stopped working on this fiction.
Signature: Claudio Sánchez
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