Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Review: Ozark Season 3 Episode 2



Episode 2 “Civil Union”

Oh my god this fucking show! I am just two episodes in and it is too much for me to deal with! I just finished watching episode two of this third season of Ozark and I have to talk about how great it is. Every single moment matters. You can not have this on and do other things. I couldn't even iron and watch this. I sat here and either had my hands on my head or covering my mouth multiple times. The episode starts off with this substitute teacher being ignored by his class until one of the girls screams when she sees an image sent to her phone. The teacher confronts the class before taking all their phones and throwing them into a wood chipper outside and fighting the city worker. I was like “Who is this man?” Then I found out later and said “Oh, no...”


Marty and Ruth head to the elder Cosgrove's place to apologize for Ruth kicking his son in the nuts and throwing him off the casino boat. Marty and Ruth say that his son said he was gonna rat them all out for what Ruth did and he is like “I didn't say that!” Meanwhile Helen has custody of her kids for the summer and her husband is like “You get our daughter but if you keep our son we going to court.” She later has this handled with an assault. It was pretty smooth and Helen scares me. Every woman on this show scares me.

One thing I didn't think about much is the effect that Buddy's death last season would have on Marty and Wendy's son Jonah. That old man was for sure his only friend. One day at the casino that teacher from the start of the episode shows up. Ruth thinks he is sketchy as shit and tells security to get him out. Turns out he is Ben, Wendy's crazy brother. Oh, shit! He is now staying with the family and being weird as fuck. Jonah asks his mother about Ben since he overheard his parents saying they are worried that Jonah is like Ben. They bump into Darlene and her baby in the parking lot. Every time Darlene is on screen I wait for someone to die.


Wendy wants to buy this other casino from another couple to launder the cartel money. She convinces the wife but Marty on the side is getting the husband not to and they pass on the deal which is not a good thing. Seriously, there is no right way to handle this. Marty ends up having Cosgrove's men sabotage the fireworks at a rival casino of the folks across the way from the couple Wendy wants to buy meanwhile Wendy and Ruth, taking some initiative, use a computer to make all their machines give out jackpots forcing the couple to lose a fuck ton of money really fast.


While Wendy and Helen are celebrating Marty gets a visit from the FBI who are like “Hey, you got another casino. Cool. The FBI thinks that is super interesting. We're gonna set up camp here.” As Marty shows this to Wendy her brother Ben comes running out the house butt naked to jump in the lake. Two episodes in and I can not begin to imagine how insane this is gonna get. I didn't even mention that Marty installed SpyWare on Wendy's phone and has been listening to her talks with Helen and the cartel...

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