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While The Big Cancel has upended seemingly every aspect of our lives, one pillar of society has remained consistent and that’s streaming.
Whether it be movies or television shows, the various streaming services are more valuable now than ever as millions upon millions of people stay inside their homes.
Of all of the latest additions to streaming this month, arguably the most anticipated was the release of the third season of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning drama Ozark.
WARNING: spoilers for season three of Ozark will follow.
If you spent the weekend binging the third season, then you know the tenth episode concludes with one of the most shocking moments in the series’ history, as the closing frame features villainous lawyer Helen Pierce having her head blown off by the leader of the Navvaro cartel.
Chris Munday, the showrunner of the critically acclaimed drama, recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly and further delved into the shocking season three ending.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: That was quite the scene to end a season on! Why did that feel like the perfect final moment?
CHRIS MUNDY: We thought of the first third of the season as Marty vs. Wendy, and Wendy kind of wins that battle, and then it transitions to this tentative alliance between Wendy and Helen, and by extension Wendy and Marty vs. Helen. By the time it came to the end, we really wanted to hold that tension of these two things cannot cohabitate, somebody’s got to win this battle, because Navarro isn’t going to put up with anything unstable and he was going to have to pick a side. The whole last episode starts in a very tentative way because there’s fallout from things that happened in episode 9, and once it clicks into gear we didn’t want it to stop until the very last possible second.
For you, if we’re in Navarro’s mindset, why Wendy and Marty over Helen?
As good as Helen is, there’s other lawyers in the world. But Wendy and Marty have now pulled off two impossibilities for him. One is getting a casino to launder through in the first place, which is sort of the holy grail of money laundering. And the second is that, at least in Navarro’s mind, their claim that they have the FBI on their side and can swing the power of the U.S. government in the intervention in the drug war against their rivals, that’s something virtually no one else can do, and that essentially tipped the scales for Marty and Wendy. [via EW]
To Netflix’s credit, the ending of Ozark‘s third season was one of the biggest jaw-dropping moments in recent television history and has me already hyped for season four.
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