Ozark Season 4 Finale's Major Ruth Scene Explained By Jason Bateman
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Ozark Season 4, Episode 14, «A Hard Way to Go.»
Netflix's hit crime drama Ozark has finally reached a stunning conclusion, and director Jason Bateman attempts to rectify a controversial ending for one of its most beloved characters. Nearly five years ago, the Byrde family moved to the Lake of the Ozarks to get out of a sticky money laundering scheme for a Mexican drug cartel and racked up critical acclaim over four compelling seasons. With last Friday's release of season 4, part 2, the Byrdes get their happy ending (sort of) after plenty of financial ingenuity, political maneuvering, and death—lots of death.
The quintet of Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner (playing the Byrdes), and Julia Garner as spitfire entrepreneur Ruth Langmore seemed to be magnets for blood and violence, connected to nearly every pivotal character's death in the show. With so many possible outcomes for season 4, part 2, following the deaths of Darlene Snell and Wyatt Langmore and the dangerous shuffling of the cartel's leadership, the Byrdes and Ruth had many people in their crosshairs and eventually found themselves at risk too. In Ruth's swan song, she tracked down the man who killed her cousin Wyatt, interim cartel head Javi Elizondro, and killed him, eventually dying at the hands of Javi's mother. While Ozark's finale did many things right, Ruth's arc didn't end the way some fans would have liked.
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Bateman, who directed the season 4 finale, «A Hard Way to Go,» spoke to Vanity Fair about the decision to kill Ruth and how the show's creative team tried to ensure her death was meaningful for both the character and viewers alike. He justifies
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