![]() By the end of the episode, Marty has gone from bland suit to accounting antihero when a ripped-off cartel boss that he also works for ( Esai Morales) enlists him to launder and make money for him in a certain time frame, or else (in an episode that continually surprises with its brutality, Marty’s business partner is not so lucky). ![]() He plays a financial advisor named Marty Byrde whose disenfranchisement with suburban life extends beyond consuming himself with work, or glumly watching a video of his wife Wendy ( Laura Linney) cheating on him with another man. If this sounds like the series “Arrested Development,” which also happens to star Bateman, you’re not far off, as “Ozark” has the strange air of what would happen if “Breaking Bad” met that famous show.īut before it gets to its dead-serious financial shenanigans, “Ozark” plays out like a riff on “ American Beauty” in the pilot episode directed by two-time filmmaker Bateman. ![]() He tries to run his family like a small business after making a huge mistake, and it’s often up to his smarts to get everyone out. ![]() Jason Bateman plays a business savvy patriarch who gets caught up in some shady dealings in “Ozark,” a new ten-episode series streaming on Netflix today. ![]()
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