Ozark Season 4 Part 1 Finale Deaths Explained By Showrunner
Warning: Spoilers for Ozark season 4, part 1.
Ozark season 4 showrunner Chris Mundy talks about the major character deaths from the first half of the show's final season. The acclaimed crime drama premiered the first seven of its fourteen-episode final season, with the back-half set to premiere later in 2022. The series stars Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and Julia Garner, who's won two Emmy Awards for her performance.
Ozark follows the Byrde family, who launders money for a Mexican drug cartel through multiple businesses in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, getting involved with criminals and the mob along the way. One of theother prominent characters is Garner's Ruth, a criminal trained by Marty Byrde to launder money who leaves after being betrayed in season 3, joining her cousin Wyatt in the heroin business run by Wyatt's girlfriend, Darlene. This is seen as a problem by the cartel, with high-ranking member Javi murdering Wyatt and Darlene in the finale of the first half to stop their production.
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In an interview with EW, Mundy talks about how the deaths were foreshadowed, with Javi's first scene on the series asking the Byrdes what they plan to do about Darlene. He goes on to say that Darlene's death in Ozark was inevitable, and how they ultimately combined it with Wyatt's to push Ruth to her most vulnerable point. He also talks about the frequent deaths of the new season, including Frank Sr. and Sherriff Nix, thinking it was almost too much, but was ultimately satisfied with how each death serves the story. Read Mundy's quote below:
«But with the Darlene and Wyatt, in every season we've kind of had a scene or two that lays out what the season is going to be but you
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