Ozark season 1

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4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A Chicago accountant flees to the backwoods to launder money and pay his debt to a Mexican drug cartel. We’ll revisit our August 18, 2017 review of season one of the crime-thriller classic “Ozark.”

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0:00.0	To get the Crime Writers on After Show right now, go to patreon.com slash Partners in Crime Media.
0:06.6	I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is Crime Writers On.
0:26.8	Crime Riders On. Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:28.4	pop culture, other podcasts.
0:35.6	And on this episode, a Chicago accountant flees to the backwoods to launder money and pay his debt to a Mexican drug cartel.
0:54.3	We'll revisit our 2017 review of season one of the crime thriller classic Ozark. Joining me to get that done and more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of. These are their stories podcast, my husband, and the love of my life, Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. So, Kevin, what are we going to hear in today? CWO Classic Rewind.
0:56.8	Okay, this was requested by Ruth Moriarty Smith.
0:59.2	She did request this because her name is Ruth.
1:11.6	She was curious about our season one review of Ozark that we did on August 18th, 2017, or Rebecca, as you called it, Breaking Bad with a the lake and spreadsheet Is that what I called it?
1:13.8	Well, let's listen to all the interesting things we have to say about, you know,
1:17.3	what would become a classic crime thriller series.
1:21.6	All right.
1:26.2	All right.
1:26.8	Well, moving on. The other thing we're talking about this week is Ozark.
1:30.9	Ozark is the latest Netflix original series to make a splash, both among our listeners and in my house.
1:37.3	The first season dropped earlier this summer. It stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Bird, a couple who flee to the Missouri Ozarks in a last-ditch attempt to launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.
1:52.9	The series has been compared to Breaking Bad, perhaps unfairly, because while it does revolve around a seemingly regular guy breaking the law, it also breaks
2:01.7	the familiar formula of crime and family dramas on many fronts. And I think those fronts are
2:06.9	what's worth talking about. So that breaking bad comparison, I just want to get it out there and
2:13.3	get rid of it. It has been the subject of a lot of the reviews of Ozark and it's been a lot of
2:19.3	like the talking points around it. I've seen Jason Bateman like on Today Show and they're like
2:23.3	people say this is like the new Breaking Bad. I think it's unfair because Breaking Bad was singular
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