Release the Kraken
Well-Known Member
No fans of Ozark? Unlike some of these Breaking Bad inspired series, this to me is the one that captures the true angst and paranoia of the illicit drug trade. Marty and Wendy Byrde and family are perceived locally and politically as royalty with two casinos, a strip club, a funeral parlor and a foundation that finances and operates rehab facilities and yet when kingpin Navarro or his nephew make demands (such as crime scene and surveillance sanitization, laundering or extortion) they jump to attention like obedient sex slaves. They’re rich and influential and yet continually compromising themselves and others just to survive the volatile whims of their ruthless masters. Rings true and the characters and performances are superb. Just don’t get attached to any of the support cast cause they’re dropping like flies.
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