The Opposite Endings of Breaking Bad & Ozark | The Absence of Divine Justice (ANALYSIS)

The series finale of Ozark was divisive. After years of exploitation and manipulation, Wendy Byrde wins the game...or did she? Breaking Bad and Ozark are both built around characters who attempt to grab power and influence by any means necessary. Wendy reaches the summit with her family in-tact; Walter loses everything. In this analysis, I explore the fascinating question of divine justice raised by the opposite endings of these two iconic dramas.
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[@alexman378]

Ruth’s death made complete sense and it was her fault. She killed the son of the Cartel head, which is well and good since she was getting revenge. But then she stuck around. If you do that, you immediately fly away from the country, especially since they don’t know who you are yet. But no, she stayed in the city, and got found out eventually.

[@opticalraven1935]

Loved that Ruth died. Irritating she was

[@MateusVIII]

I love the ending precisely because of how unfair it is. It spits in your face and says "there is no justice", those who have power keep it, those who don't fall. It is brutal and yet it closes the show perfectly.

[@fadlial-akiti8243]

setuju!

[@paftdunk9469]

It was interesting with Jesse in breaking bad season 4 how Jesse couldn’t live with the fact that after murdering gale there was no societal consequence so it eats him up morally. For some reason that always stuck with me

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

Jesse living in breaking bad is not living at all, he lost both the loves of his life, his soul died inside a cage shitting in a bucket, and he always showed regret and remorse and he has to live with that. Meanwhile ozark makes marty the sympathetic figure for 4 seasons and Wendy a complete psycho and in the end turn it around to make marty the psycho and Wendy the sympathetic person, and that made no sense to try and make the viewers feel like she got her just due by living with regret

[@OK-yy6qz]

​​​@@IsaacMSingleton1 I don't think the point is to say she got her just due by living with regret. The point is that she DIDN'T get her just due. It's a dark and realistic ending,most of the time Evil people don't get Karma they just keep becoming powerful to the point of becoming untouchable. Both shows are grim and dark but Breaking Bad has a version of Divine justice. The Villians fall and they fall in a poetic way. Gus Died by Hector (in a way),the Cartel By Gus,Todd by Jesse. The Villians die as a consequence of their evil actions usually by the ones they hurt. Ozark doesn't have that,when the Villians die it's usually by other even worse villians. Also both Wendy and Marty are Phycopaths since Season 1,and they're also both sympathetic

[@dustinairola4301]

I personally was a big fan of the ending of Ozark. Ruth had to die as she represented the family’s last shred of humanity. When she died they became Ruth-less so to speak. There’s a lot of richness there that deserves a second watch. The shows were pretty even for me but the tie breaker was the portrayal of the cartel which Breaking Bad did a lot better.

[@samuelfoisy]

“Ruth-less” BRILLIANT take.

[@user-mt6hr4qf9n]

I watched the Ozark ending and I could only remember that Ruth died. I genuinely couldn't remember what happened to the rest of them. That's why Breaking Bad (and the even better Better Call Saul) are superior - they just seem like much more thorough, fuller worlds. Everything makes sense in them, whereas there's loads I don't know about Ozark - like do the kids go to school? I think the slower storytelling pace pays off in the Gilliverse

[@esheanarumainathan2053]

if i may ask, why do u consider bcs better than bb? I think in certain ways that bcs is better so i'm kinda interested to hear someone elses opinion.

[@user-ex7yq6xq9s]

in my opinion, bcs felt more real in regards to the protagonist's life..mundane with a slight of tenseness and bcs characters are a lot more likeable than bb..

[@Missab4000]

@@esheanarumainathan2053 I think BCS is also fascinating in that the “why” of events are often more fascinating than the “how,” which it focuses on quite heavily. Its slow pace rewards the viewers as more things are revealed, and it’s incredibly satisfying.

[@esheanarumainathan2053]

@@Missab4000 yea i agree, there's defo more payoff with all the set up in the earlier seasons. I also find Jimmy to be more interesting than Walter.

[@user-mt6hr4qf9n]

@@esheanarumainathan2053 Yeah for sure! I think the characters are really acutely realised - the relationship between Chuck and Jimmy is so believable, it's thoroughly thought through, there's the constant tension of who's right and the writers manage to walk the tightrope of making sure that both brothers behave badly. Chuck is right about Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree being like a chimp with a machine gun, we know that from Breaking Bad, but does he see that or by seeing it cause it? I think Kim is a beautifully drawn and realised character, and although I defend Skyler against the misogynistic haters, I do conceed that the Breaking Bad women are less well realised than Kim Wexler. On the other side of the story the cartel line is more rooted in human experience than it is in Breaking Bad - I like seeing Gus before he's totally in control. Nacho is a heart in the cartel story which is missing in BB, Mike as always is the compromised moral centre. Some people say Better Call Saul is boring but I think it takes its time and I for one have never found it boring. It makes the mundane fascinating and all that slow ground work pays off as the seasons progress. It enjoys process down to small details and I love that about it. I don't want any of this to sound like I'm ragging on Breaking Bad because I love that show but BCS just feels like a slightly improved version, it's just executed better, and why wouldn't it be? The writers get better the more they do it. Also it has the advantage of being the second show, it can lean on the kind of "intertextuality" that BB couldn't simply because it was the first one. I love how events, characters and lines rhyme with events in BB, it really tightens it all up and makes it a really beautiful work of art.

[@quisp1492]

I think a central theme of Ozark is that life punishes those who abandon rationality and are unwilling to compromise. For all of their faults, the Birds always engaged their rationality, weighed the consequences and chose the option that produced the best outcome regardless of emotionality. For all of their fights and outbursts, they always chose weight the consequences and act rationally. I think that Ruth's death came as a consequence of her choosing to satisfy her urge to kill Javier regardless of the repercussions. I didn't realize this theme until the final scene with Mel being shot. He was given exactly what he wants in getting his job back on the police force. That still wasn't good enough for him though, he had to confront the Birds and it got him killed. He abandoned his reason in appreciating that he came out on top even if it came at the cost of swallowing a tough moral pill. The central message is that nobody gets what they want without making sacrifices and compromising.

[@jakethesnake7917]

Damn this is so deep and it makes me appreciate the ending a lot more than I already did

[@ciudadanakane8743]

I agree, and I think Mel found what he looked for. he was not doing a job, he had an obsession with them.

[@craigbenz4835]

The biggest difference between Ozark and Breaking Bad is that Ozark had NO characters I liked, but Breaking Bad had Hank, Walt Jr., Skyler, Mike, Jesse, and Saul. Those were all in some ways sympathetic. Ozark was particularly unsatisfying because of the combination of unlikeable characters and the lack of some more Wagnerian ending. I was very disappointed that Wendy lived.

[@user-ex7yq6xq9s]

Nah Ruth was my favorite out of all and they ruined it....

[@reuben7276]

The bad characters made it for me, like Wendy, Darlene and Agent Petty. Just good to watch because they’re so unpredictable and shows generally dont usually get into the minds of the worst characters like that. Also don’t see how Ruth and Wyatt arent likeable characters? Bar Wyatts questionable relationship choices towards the end…

[@user-ex7yq6xq9s]

@@reuben7276 id say s1 & 3 are masterpiece s2 is good but s4 is bland, the tension is lacking, doesnt feel like a final conclusion to the whole story esp the ending. ugh pissed me off how it made me feel unsatisfied about the ending

[@reuben7276]

@@user-ex7yq6xq9s I can see that, I was so disappointed with the ending at first but after thinking about it it does make sense really, just follows with the theme of the Byrdes destroying everyones lives around them for their own gain. Its depressing but I think its a statement if nothing else..

[@gbrogo7139]

I liked Rachel. She was hot.

[@teztez9145]

Ozark is just a show that doesn't have enough time to reach an ending. It's like the show ends on Act 4, but there are still more acts to go. The real truth is no one gets to keep power for very long, and it transfers from one person to another because we all just die or we all become too weak to hold on to power. So the Byrd family will eventually see a gruesome kind of destruction, but the audience will be left stuck on the ending of Act 4 as the writers can't stick with this family long enough to show their conclusion.

[@richlisola1]

My problem with Ozark’s ending is it’s no ending-The Byrds will fall, just as their initial threat and simultaneous benefactor drug lord Omar did. It’s just gonna happen offscreen. Happily ever after is just precedes the breaking dawn of a new day. Walt in Breaking Bad dying was an end, a true end

[@JimBillyRayBob]

Ozark ending does occationally happen. Breaking Bad ending is dramatically more common in real life. Powerful and miserable (Ozark) or powerful and dead (BB). Is there actually much of a distinction?

[@melissas7980]

Personally, I had high hopes that Ozark was going to meet my criteria for best shows ever. It definitely did not stick the landing for me, but obviously, it concluded with an accurate depiction of how the world really is. People with all the advantages tend to stay on top. They have designed the system, and they always manage to keep it this way. I like a good underdog story. But with Walt in BB, you get the vicarious thrill of the underdog story, but also the fair and at least semi-realistic satisfaction of him having to pay a dear price for his final bits of redemption. He got this satisfaction, too. Ultimately, it was all worth it to him. Talk about meta! Super satisfying on every level. Best show ever.

[@Control_Z.]

The only thing that keeps me sane is the knowledge that no matter how smart, charismatic, famous, despicable or kind you are, time will erase you. You can’t take any money or other worldly possessions with you. The jaws of death will take you from them sooner or later and the empire you’ve built will crumble just like every other before and after. Religious or not it’s a fact. The sands of time erode everything.

[@SPECREY]

ozark ending looks like a mess

[@matthew1882]

I actually really enjoyed it. The Bryde's win but they are forever trapped in the endless cycle of cutting deals and making snap plans. One day they'll probably run out of rope but it's not now.

[@raaaaaaaaaam496]

@@matthew1882 so basically it didn’t end. What a fucking joke

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

I mean even the generic shotgun blast and fade to black, oh well it's okay now but damn it coulda been great

[@jhellert1]

Ozark needs a sequel called "Jonah". We see Jonah 10 years later still having to clean up messes his parents made. (They were victims of a Navaro cartel remnant 5 years after the events Ozark). Charlotte has a husband and two young kids but has to hide the real nature of the Byrd family from them. Jonah keeps having to bail them out or protect them. Intermixed with that story line are flash forwards to where Jonah is in federal prison and has somehow become a shot caller in a prison gang. He's the one American in a Mexican prison gang that is seeking vengeance from a resurrected Navaro cartel.

[@renerocha6334]

Yeah, another 10 years of nonsense plans by the Bryd’s and the cartel refuses to kill them for reasons.

[@ericretz5037]

This better be sarcastic

[@jhellert1]

@@ericretz5037 Or what Javi is going to come shoot me in my living room with my wife of two weeks who is forty years older than me?

[@cod3368]

So glad fans arent writers

[@Lizard2176]

Ozark always felt like Kirkland-brand Breaking Bad

[@Avital4414]

More like Walmart. Or better yet, a dollar store version.

[@PrismBot]

@@Avital4414 That would be Metastasis. Look it up if you haven't seen it lol.

[@deadlysnakeman]

man why you gotta diss kirkland like that

[@danielwormald4666]

Ozark was a great show wdym

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

@@danielwormald4666 man It really wasn't. I'll give you the 3 biggest weaknesses of the show 1 realism, the show throws it out the window for 43 hours and 50 minutes and then the last 5 go full Hollywood and give a speech adding the Kennedys and kochs to make it feel grounded in realism. 2 characters- seasons 1 and 2 we had a good storyline around marty and Rachel, Ruth and her family, Ruth and marty, Ruth and her dad, the snells, the kc mob, and the cartel. Once season 3 starts it went 99 percent into Wendy being some crazy political superpower and 1 percent the rest. 3 - rehashed storylines and outcomes. 1 of the biggest points Is Charlotte and Jonah going through the same exact arc with the exception of Jonah moving out but also being at every family dinner 😂 Wendy going to a meeting, a generic dialogue about good and evil, then they say go here and talk to this person, this person tells them the same, finally they get it done with no real work just a behind the scenes plot development. Cartel repeatedly says do this or we kill you, they don't do it, cartel doesn't kill them, rinse and repeat

[@andresespinosa4531]

Great video essay!

[@beethoven999999999]

Good stuff man! I like your observations and comparison to Breaking Bad. It got me thinking, and appreciated Ozark more. It can’t be coincidence Wendy was the character interacting most with the corrupt priest and legalistic, abusive father.

[@BlackMambo]

Just EXCELLENT! Seeing your video made me want to go and see "Ozark" in a one fateful binge... 😛

[@markaceto]

Ozark was the thinking man’s Breaking Bad. It subverted every BB trope, and every character had an arc. The biggest theme was free will (and the choices we make). Ruth knew she was a dead woman walking as soon as she made the choice to kill Javi. She also made several terrible choices with the cartel, Darlene, Shaw, and the KC mob that all could have earned her death. Ozark was less fun, silly and downright corny but the writing, directing and acting were far superior. I love both shows, and their themes of naturalism but we gotta give credit where credit is due: they both successfully ended on their own terms.

[@harrybacchus6603]

Really great video

[@ZombiiChix]

I'm of the mindset that at least one of the birds should have died lol

[@craigbenz4835]

I can't believe that the writers let Wendy live.

[@GeeGunMan]

that’s like my only flaw with this show. they introduced new characters that they’d kill off but wouldn’t really kill any of the main characters. other than the ones you know would end up dead like Del and Buddy.

[@liammahan4497]

Wendy 100%

[@pjbrown4736]

Ozark's ending still rubs me the wrong way, brought down 4 seasons of interesting plots into smoking rubble. Breaking Bad and now, its companion series Better Call Saul ended with powerful and well thought out conclusions with consequences for these protagonists. Ozark had a chance to do that, and they dropped the fucking ball.

[@TheAgentmigs]

The fact that Ruth died is not the way I would have wanted the show to end.

[@matt6223]

I didn't know Ozarks ended ☹️

[@donrog5035]

I liked this ending It was great

[@yacelbijour6499]

I love how the show had Marty as the main character for 2 seasons, then Wendy

[@alisterfolson]

Ozark's ending. A Bob Newhart / Roseanne /Brazil - like ending would've been more effective imo

[@ozbej5988]

peak ozark is s3

[@renerocha6334]

Season three was when the show went completely off the rails. A game of D and D is more believable.

[@brody_zzz]

i tell all my friends to stop watching after season 3. I feel like the end of that season gives a way better send off than the actual ending

[@zahubshahid7944]

What was so good about S3 besides Helen getting killed? S3 had the same BS writing where 100 problems are thrown at the Byrdes but they somehow evade all of them.

[@renerocha6334]

@@zahubshahid7944 that’s exactly what is wrong with the show. The Byrds come up with yet another terrible plan yet come out with out a scratch. For some reason no one has a problem killing everyone in that show except the two individuals who cause all the problems. Ozarks was dumb AF.

[@zahubshahid7944]

@@renerocha6334 100%. There was zero tension or reason for me to care past season 3 because The Byrdes were always going to be fine. Remember when Navarro even said "I don't kill children?" That just proves Jonah and Charlotte were never in any danger... that's HALF the family that we didn't have to worry about anymore.

[@ciudadanakane8743]

I love "ozark" , at the end they killed the most beloved character , but she looked for it, its realistic. if ruth would had a happy ending that would be a totally different show.

[@telephilia]

BB is like Tolstoy, or Dickens Ozark a dime store novel. The difference especially noticeable in O's disappointing ending. Perhaps the triumph of corrupt 21st century capitalism is more realistic but it's not entertainment.

[@tfh5575]

i loved ozark because of wendy she was an evil machiavellian mastermind

[@brody_zzz]

the similarities between this show and breaking bad seem more than coincidental to me and seems like the show wanted to explore an alternative ending to a similar premise. when i recommend the show to my friends i call it "breaking bad but all the bald people are replaced by women." when I first saw the ending of ozark I was very upset with the fact that the Byrds got out so clean. All throughout the final season I was ready for Wendy's schemes to fall apart just once, but lo and behold they always managed to get out of anything anyone threw at them. I really just wanted to see a breaking bad-esque ending where everything falls apart and Wendy was left with nothing. I'm not sure how I feel about the actual ending of the show now, as I think an ending I was hoping for would be too similar to breaking bad and ozark would likely never live down the reputation of being a show thats just breaking bad but worse, however I feel like the ending we got leaves no one satisfied and even through the lens of seeing the ending as "with power you can get away with anything" just leaves a boring and unimpactful impression. I haven't thought about ozark since it ended, and I feel like that is mainly due to the poor ending. I also was very upset with Ruth's death, not because she died, but because it almost just seemed like Ruth's death was an afterthought after making the Byrd's ending. Ruth's death was so unimpactful and could have been so much better, but it seemed like the writers just gave up on her arc, which is strange to me considering they set her up as a fan favorite. At least she got to go out like stringer bell I guess

[@melissas7980]

Spot ON. yes!

[@marcosmc3709]

100% agree

[@itswilbur3747]

I get what Ozark was going for and liked that aspect. Where it fell down for me, was with the cardinal writing sin of making otherwise smart characters, do really dumb shit for plot convenience (Ruth and Mel). I hate when shows do that.

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

Me too but really looking back that was the entire show, from the first episode del giving marty a second chance to Wendy being told if they try and run he will kill them and the family, yet when she runs he doesn't even kill her 😂 I guess looking back on episode 1 it was great foreshadowing that the show would go for shock value over the basic concept of life. I mean why does del even need to kill the boyfriend when he would have just grabbed Wendy off the sidewalk and been done with her, instead the cartel throws a guy off a balcony in the middle of the city, safe to assume cameras saw them go in and out of said building, that would be an issue for them. Lazy writing where they make life or death threats and go back on them in the same episode is a little hard to take as well

[@itswilbur3747]

@@IsaacMSingleton1 Good points. My unobservant self missed that😆 I guess when the plot holes and character logic get so screwy, that even I notice, you know the writing has gone down the pan

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

@@itswilbur3747 yep and I can't say I didn't like the show, I really enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but it took a nosedive and went from crime show focused on man saving family to a power hungry political show I found it crappy, the writing was just lazy, and watching marty get ran over non stop just became stupid. The man finds out his wife tried to get his son arrested and just goes to bed 😂 ok

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

@@itswilbur3747 they left so many plot holes we all might as well get writers credits for them in.

[@twiceshy9773]

I never thought it'd be so sad to be Ruthless😂😭😭- and damn dude, I was with you until you went and dissed "Everything Everywhere All At Once"...but tbf, you sound very young, maybe you'll understand and appreciate it more when you're older

[@nerdcorner2680]

Better call saul kind of retcons this video. No spoilers, but it very heavily suggests that at the very least the law is something sacred and moral and it will always catch up to you. So BCS suggests God’s intervention through the law

[@ahmadadiyaat9779]

Ozark ending makes no sense. The good guys in the movie are sometimes so stupid so the ending becomes stupid, case and point Mel Sattern.

[@somedude9828]

"god can't trespass on man will"

[@AT-AT-AT-AT]

wendy chose “the matriarchy” and Beth paid the price

[@imnotimportant6831]

Did you just spoil the ending of this show with your thumbnail?

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

As much as I loved breaking bad and hated Walter the show really sent the message of no matter how good it seems you and your family will meet the same untimely fate. Nobody wins in breaking bad because nobody should win, everyone is a murdering scumbag and they all meet the same fate, Skylar and Marie both lost their husband's, Walt Jr hates his life, the baby has no father, gus, Tuco, crazy 8, Mike and so many more. Jesse died in that cage and he actually has to live with regret as we always saw from his character. For some reason the last episode Wendy and marty switch and she is all sympathetic and marty is cold and emotionless 😂 make absolutely no sense, marty and the kids are the only one who didn't win, but I can't say they didn't lose because they sold their souls for a mom who will sell them out in a heartbeat to go forward. Yet the ending paints the viewer to feel sympathy for Wendy for Ruth's death and pretend it's justified she lives with "guilt" when the entire show was about her not giving a fuck and throwing anybody to the wolves. Anybody who says this show is as good as breaking bad is just wrong.

[@jakethesnake7917]

I would never say it’s as good as breaking bad but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t in the same ballpark, Marty’s character was too far gone to accept anymore guilt and emotion anymore just like he did with Mason by the end of the show and I think in Wendy’s case it shows us she came around to feel sympathetic for Ruth because her dying would have absolutely no gain for Wendy and she eventually came around to somewhat respect her. I think your argument would be a lot more valid if they took the approach to try to completely redeem Wendy by sacrificing herself to save Ruth which would have been a disaster. That would have been too similar to Walt saving Jesse in the end for a character who deserves to live but in Wendy’s case it does not fit her character at all to just jump in front of the bullet and lose everything she selfishly gained for her. She’s never had that character redemption/progression to where that would’ve made sense and I can appreciate why the writers ended up taking a different approach than breaking bad.

[@fadlial-akiti8243]

i agree@@jakethesnake7917

[@saudinc6267]

Y’all just pressed that Wendy got through and you didn’t get a happy ending…

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

Whos that again

[@chestercheeto9768]

Glad I didn’t get into this show. Watched the first 3 episodes and it seemed so shallow and basic. Then something random comes in to make it seem convoluted I was like nah this doesn’t feel right

[@renerocha6334]

One (breaking bad) was an excellent show. The other (Ozarks) was a bunch of nonsense.

[@PrismBot]

Interesting choices of parenthesis.

[@craigbenz4835]

I couldn't like any character in Ozark at any point in the story. Breaking Bad was much better.

[@renerocha6334]

@@craigbenz4835 very true

[@drcheesenut896]

@@PrismBot I mean yeah. Breaking Bad has been considered one of the best shows of all time, despite coming out 14 years ago and ending 9 years ago. Ozark will not have that

[@PrismBot]

@@drcheesenut896 Nah, he had the parentheses around Ozark around the words "was a bunch of nonsense" before. It's edited now.

[@JustAnotherBlader]

Not that I really enjoyed Ozarks ending, I gotta respect what they were going for. The idea that bad characters must be punished and good ones must have a happy ending is not realistic… it’s simply a story telling device.

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

Yeah ozark lost steam pretty quickly and jason batemans straight man act has absolutely nothing on Walter White descending into Heisenberg

[@aetreum3825]

JONAH SHOOTS WENDY LETS GO JASON BATEMAN WHY DIDNT YOU DO THIS?

[@BoolyK]

How dare you compare breaking bad to that disaster of a writers room

[@EliW95]

I’m not religious but I do believe that people will pay for their misdeeds whether in this life or the next

[@user-eb9tl2ne8h]

ruth death so useless i mean she i the person who ruining her own life , and ruining her life for just death? naah she at least should be in the jail or have a good end

[@httm241]

Ozark is the inverted Breaking Bad

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

So the bad version of a good show?

[@httm241]

@@ravenwhiteduck6460 a better version

[@mmmuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiirrrrr]

I LOVED the Ozark ending. Both felt real, though. Walt was a COOK. The Byrds were, primarily, dealmakers and accountants. These people OFTEN have different ends.

[@dubj101]

"Now I think that is woefully off the mark." Why?

[@HaroldTheWizardCat]

there is absolutely no way you actually think in capitalism for there to be winners it doesn't require for there to be losers/the exploited....

[@Atreus21]

If there is no God, then nothing matters. Do whatever you can get away with, because "all stories will come to nothing: all life will turn out in the end to have been a transitory and senseless contortion upon the idiotic face of infinite matter."

[@nont18411]

I don’t think Walter actually “paid” for anything. Jesse was the sacrificial lamb who paid for Walter’s sins throughout the show. Walter took a 6 months hiatus in a snowy cozy mountains while Jesse had to see his 2nd girlfriend getting murdered while endured being enslaved to protect Brock from being killed. And this doesn’t include horrible things that happened to Jesse’s life before that thanks to Walter. Walter ended up getting everything he wants. He made money. He gave the money to his family while in the same time threatened a couple whom he felt that they “wronged” him (albeit they are totally innocent). He killed all of his enemies and he never got to be in jail. His legacy remained intact. He never made up for his sins or apologized with Jane’s dad (who probably committed suicide because of him) or Drew Sharp’s parents (whose son died thanks to his train heist) or even Brock (who got poisoned by him and whose mom ended up dead because Walter brought the nazis to her house one time). His ending isn’t so different from those of Wendy. The only difference is that he died.

[@drcheesenut896]

Walt did suffer though. Just watch Ozymandias again. He's crying when having the call with Skyler, cause he knows he just lost and destroyed his family. He didn't just have 6 months in a cozy cabin, he had 6 months he spent entirely alone except for one person who wasn't even a friend, who would only stop in every now and then, and Walt would have to pay for them to stay longer. Over the course of this he was slowly dying and suffering from cancer as well. He accomplished all the goals he set out to do in Felina, but he didn't win. His family is broken and now will always hate him, he'll never see his daughter grow up, his empire is gone, and he'll forever be seen as a monster. He both won and lost in the end.

[@elliotparkes783]

Didn't pay?? His whole family hate him, his brother in law got shot in the face and he'll never see his daughter grow up. Stupid comment.

[@Onezy05]

He got what he wanted, but at what cost?

[@Skyblueparkbench]

He wanted on some level to be this meth cooking genius but also wanted his family life, with them neve me finding out. This obviously doesn’t happen and that family is broken forever once Hank makes that Walt is Heisenberg, then the family turns to shit when Hank dies. Walt doesn’t get the family life, and has to live with being Heisenberg. His son hates him, his reputation he leaves behind is an evil man and father. Heisenberg won but he lost his humanity

[@cantthinkofagoodname7923]

Ozark is like what if breaking bad ended on face off

[@jasonshaneyfelt1039]

I agree with you that the philosophy of Everything Everywhere All At Once crumbles under pressure. And as a Christian, I think to myself "How can it provide a fulfilling answer?" Secular society is having more and more trouble dealing with this existential question and I simply don't think there is a good answer for them under that worldview. That worldview is inherently opposed to such an answer. No hate or ill-will to anyone who might disagree with me (that would never happen on the internet, right?) Just an observation.

[@PrismBot]

4:00 What you want to be true and what actually is are fortunately two different things. The universe doesn't give a crap about us or what we want. If we want justice, we need to take it for ourselves. And I'm happy knowing Hitler is dead and can't hurt anyone anymore. That's enough for me. I don't need cosmic justice. Also, my favorite joke: Say what you want about Hitler...but he killer Hitler.

[@TheOneZiggy]

You're giving Ozark way too much credit

[@IsaacMSingleton1]

I'd call this a pretentious review for a pretentious show, fitting 😂

[@wehosrmthink7510]

I liked Ozark infinitely more so than Breaking Bad . History is full of evil people getting away with murder or far worse. I loved Vince Gilligan’s heart, humor , and how he got his actors to show feeling - but the cold blue of Ozark where every decent character gets the shaft : that is U.S. capitalism. For that reason, Ozark will eventually stay in our collective memory until we do something about our rotten society .BB is almost a feel good comedy set in well lit Western environments , like Wile E. Coyote getting an animated rock to fall on him. That is why Better Call Saul spun off one of BB’s most comical characters into success. Ozark has no such funny guys. They all die, and the rich and powerful get the last laugh.

[@CameraDev]

I understand that Breaking Bad is a superior show. It’s the greatest of all time. But I like Ozark much more. It’s intelligence, plot, characters and acting all add to its brilliance. In my opinion Breaking bad is a 9/10 Ozark is a 10/10

[@JMoney_TheGangster]

Better Call Saul is better than both of them imo

[@matt6223]

@@JMoney_TheGangster Saul is boring, just lawyer stuff

[@JMoney_TheGangster]

@@matt6223 Probably because you either only watched the first 2 seasons, or think that boring stuff=bad stuff. Remember, boring does not translate to bad writing.

[@matt6223]

@@JMoney_TheGangster why would I watch 2 seasons of boring show just to wait for it to become entertaining. I only watched the first season, so youre correct on that part

[@JMoney_TheGangster]

@@matt6223 Tbh, I don't find any of the seasons or the episodes boring. I think learning to appreciate great writing, cinematography, and acting might've helped me with that. Also about the whole "why watch 2 seasons of boring just to finally be entertained" bit, watch any of the seasons after the first one and find out. You lose out on so much of the emotion, interest, investment, etc. The slow pace is develop the characters, build upon them time and time again until they feel real. Only to pull the rug in later seasons and capitalize on all that development in plot and character. That's why Season 5 and 4 of Breaking Bad are the best in the series. All 3 previous seasons were building up to it, this great meth empire, only for it to go all wrong in Ozymandias. That is the beauty of the writing of the shows. That's why it is worth it to watch Better Call Saul to the very end. I've got more reasons for the "boring" nature of the show, but I need to eat dinner. Cya, reply if you want

[@SPECREY]

I wish there was a ending of ozark that two get olds and dies by oldage and before their death they pathetically try to avoid it, Im not saying Allah is sadist but most of the case ( people like birds ) their children ( the innocent ) dies then the guilty ones get punished but also warned to stepback.

[@mugi_c4420]

Wasn't off the mark about capitalism at all

[@greenheadblackvoodochild2487]

Ozark is just a weaker written show i believe