Ozark Has More In Common With A Different Show Than Breaking Bad
Netflix’s hit crime drama Ozark recently dropped the first half of its fourth and final season. In its latest run of episodes, Ozark continues to be one of the most intense shows on television (or, more accurately, the streaming-sphere) and seems to be building to a brutal finale. Both The Independent and The Telegraph’s reviews for Ozark’s newest season noted that the show once dubbed “the poor man’s Breaking Bad” has since become an even more compelling TV drama than Vince Gilligan’s game-changing meth saga.
When Ozark premiered in 2017, it was instantly dismissed as a Breaking Bad clone. Jason Bateman – who, like Bryan Cranston, made his name in comedy before switching to straightforward drama – stars as Marty Byrde, a financial planner who gets in over his head in a money-laundering deal with the mob. His trouble with organized crime forces him to relocate his wife and kids from Chicago to the Ozarks, where they become increasingly embroiled in the shady criminal underworld.
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Since it revolves around a mild-mannered suburbanite getting his family involved in a life of crime, Ozark couldn’t avoid comparisons to Breaking Bad. Granted, the show has a very similar premise to Breaking Bad, but its execution is completely different. Not only does it switch the scorching desert landscapes of Albuquerque for the bleak rural environments of the Ozarks; Ozark switches a misunderstood genius stuck in a dead-end job for a soulless numbers man who constantly gaslights the people closest to him.
While the setup of Ozark is similar to that of Breaking Bad, the follow-through of that premise is wholly original. In Ozark, the lead antihero’s wife is in on the
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