How Every Major Ozark Season 4 Part 1 Death Was Foreshadowed
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for Ozark.
Ozark, Netflix's critically-acclaimed antihero crime drama, is known for foreshadowing crucial events, and this includes the deaths of important characters. Through the presence of certain elements and the crafty use of Ozark's gorgeous filming locations, it's not unheard of for the series' writers to sometimes drop clues about the fate of certain characters down the line. Indeed, deaths and pivotal events have been foreshadowed by Ozark since season 1.
When Jonah Byrde (Skylar Gaertner) was just a young boy, he came upon a documentary on the European starling, an invasive bird species that threaten the natural harmony of locations where they settle – just like how the Byrdes invaded and upended the balance of power in the Ozarks. Before Ben Davis (Tom Pelphrey) even moves in with the Byrdes, Ben first appears on Ozark as a teacher violently overreacting to his students sharing a digital photo and not paying attention in class, foreshadowing how Ben's unpredictability would later cause his death. Meanwhile, Navarro cartel lawyer Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer) is characterized as a cold-blooded killer who overtly threatens to have the Byrdes killed – only to later get executed by her own cartel enforcer when Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) inadvertently green-lights her death by asking Omar (Felix Solis) to get Helen off their back.
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Ozark's foreshadowing for certain events and deaths can be found throughout the series. This tradition continues in Ozark season 4 part 1. Here's how the deaths of Darlene Snell (Lisa Emery), Wyatt Langmore (Charlie Tahan), and Frank Cosgrove Sr. (John Bedford Lloyd)
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