The Netflix series Ozark recently dropped its very last episodes. After a lot of Emmy

recognition and poor seasons of the increasingly criminal bird family scene through Moody Blue

Filters, it's over. Did Wendy and Marty Bird make it? Did young Ruth Langmore manage to

get away from the life of Marty and Wendy dragged her deeper and deeper into? We're talking

about the end of Ozark today on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining us today is NPR's TV

critic Eric Deggan's welcome back, Eric. Hey, what's up? Eric so much is up. So if you're

not familiar with Ozark, it's a sort of neo-noir series, very similar in tone to Breaking Bad,

very similar in lots of things to Breaking Bad. Jason Bateman and Laura Lennie play Marty

and Wendy Bird who came to the Ozarks and became Money Launders for a massive drug operation. In

that capacity, they came to know Ruth Langmore, a young woman played by Julia Garner, who became sort

of Marty's protege and then sometimes Marty and Wendy's enemy and on and on as legions is shifted.

The first warning I want to give is that we are covering the finale in this episode. So if you're

waiting to see it, or if you don't want to be spoiled, please go watch it and then come back.

The final run of seven episodes that dropped on Friday is technically the second half of the

fourth and final season. It begins as Ruth seeks revenge for the murder of her cousin Wyatt,

Wyatt, who had become a small time drug operator himself was killed by cartel Big Shot,

Havi, Elisandro. When we left her, Ruth was getting in her truck with her shotgun to look for

Havi. I would not even try to summarize four seasons of plot that got us here. But it's a

fey said to say that the birds are trying to finish up their work as money launders get out of town

and get a fresh start as rich philanthropists in Chicago. Their teenage kids Charlotte and Jonah

have long known that Marty and Wendy are involved in various levels of crime. Jonah begins this season

a strange trauma's mom and dad, his mom especially because and who can blame him. She had her own brother,

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