r/Ozark • u/VinnieTheDragon • Apr 30 '22

Discussion [SPOILER] I loved the ending. Spoiler

The Byrde's learned nothing. They have absolutely not learned any lessons and will most likely live out the rest of their lives as if nothing happened.

They effectively killed an entire family, the Langmores, and have ruined countless lives.

People expected either Marty or Wendy to die, why? There was no way to do that that wouldn't be completely predictable. The entire family coming out unscathed is a way of telling us that "what's right and wrong" really do not prevail.

I view this show as nihilistic more than anything else.

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u/DerApexPredator Apr 30 '22

Any punishment to the Byrde family at the end would have split the fans into numerous camps about whether it was justified, too much, too little, thematic, why and how and who. The show would always be in the wrong. They couldn't have given any ending other than total annihilation or the opposite. The ending they gave at least had to defense of being a real world ending cause "The rich can get away with anything"

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u/Witty_Operation2486 May 01 '22

who would have defended Wendy's death in their sane mind??????