{"id":4554,"date":"2017-07-31T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:53:48","slug":"netflix-ozark-familiar-right-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/netflix-ozark-familiar-right-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Ozark<\/em> is familiar in all the right ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the father who had to keep them all alive and in one piece by laundering money for a drug cartel. This is… Ozark.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As with anything Jason Bateman shows up in, it\u2019s hard not<\/em> to draw parallels between whomever it is he\u2019s playing and his iconic Arrested Development<\/em> character, Michael Bluth. And on Ozark<\/em>, Netflix\u2019s riveting new drama series, Bateman plays what could be seen as an alternate-reality version of Michael. But while the Bluth family\u2019s legal troubles were usually of the comic variety, the stakes on Ozark<\/em> are much higher.<\/p>\n

Bateman plays Marty Byrde, a wealthy Chicago financial adviser who launders money for a Mexican drug cartel. His cushy life is thrown into chaos when it\u2019s discovered that his business partner has been skimming money from the cartel. So rather than end up in a vat of acid on the back of a truck somewhere, Marty makes a last-ditch effort (seriously, based almost entirely off a travel brochure) to keep his family alive, and the Byrdes pack up and head for the Ozarks.<\/span>\n