Anybody watching?
I've enjoyed Jason Bateman's comedic talents for years but I had no idea the guy had dramatic chops. The guy's good. Really good. Bateman plays a successful Chicago financial advisor working for a firm whose biggest customer is a south of the border drug cartel.
Long story short he ends up vacating the Windy City for the Lake of the Ozarks, in Central Missouri, under extreme duress to launder cartel monies. What's really compelling is that he takes his family on the lam with him. He's adjusting to finding out his his wife had an affair back in Chicago, his 10 year old son might be a borderline psychopath and that his daughter is a teenage daughter: vile, bilious and hateful as sin.
Trying to hold his family together Bateman's character trips across a murderous, trailer trash family his daughter befriends and partners up with a pair of the sweetest, stone cold killing, hillbilly pecker-woods you'd ever meet in your nightmares.
This series is so completely messed up. Bateman clings to these old fashioned social values while he washes drug money. But he values keeping his family together and you end up loving him for that reason alone. Yet, the bodies fall around him like a dove shoot.
You like dark comedy? Here you go.
And the Best Supporting Award goes to...? All you Al Pacino "Scarface" rats should remember Harris Yulin as Det. Mel Bernstein.
TV doesn't get much better than this.
Fnord
I've enjoyed Jason Bateman's comedic talents for years but I had no idea the guy had dramatic chops. The guy's good. Really good. Bateman plays a successful Chicago financial advisor working for a firm whose biggest customer is a south of the border drug cartel.
Long story short he ends up vacating the Windy City for the Lake of the Ozarks, in Central Missouri, under extreme duress to launder cartel monies. What's really compelling is that he takes his family on the lam with him. He's adjusting to finding out his his wife had an affair back in Chicago, his 10 year old son might be a borderline psychopath and that his daughter is a teenage daughter: vile, bilious and hateful as sin.
Trying to hold his family together Bateman's character trips across a murderous, trailer trash family his daughter befriends and partners up with a pair of the sweetest, stone cold killing, hillbilly pecker-woods you'd ever meet in your nightmares.
This series is so completely messed up. Bateman clings to these old fashioned social values while he washes drug money. But he values keeping his family together and you end up loving him for that reason alone. Yet, the bodies fall around him like a dove shoot.
You like dark comedy? Here you go.
And the Best Supporting Award goes to...? All you Al Pacino "Scarface" rats should remember Harris Yulin as Det. Mel Bernstein.
Yulin/Bernstein/Ozark lives in the basement of Bateman's house in "Ozark" and walks around naked carrying a towel/fishing pole/shotgun.
TV doesn't get much better than this.
Fnord
