“Ozark” showrunner Chris Mundy breaks down the acclaimed drama’s fourth and final season, premiering Friday on Netflix with stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
Marty gets an earful from Ruth in a scene from Season 4 of “Ozark.”STEVE DIETL/NETFLIX
“At the same time, Ruth is trying to figure out how to run her business with Wyatt and Darlene and is getting a little wary of Darlene …but at the same time she’s got this very strict moral code she lives by,” Mundy said. “There’s a weird black-and-white honor system for her. She has no moral qualms about doing the worst things imaginable and is missing that empathy chip completely.Alfonso Herrera
] who’s an ambitious sort and wants the throne — so [Navarro] has to look inside his own house and figure it out.” And, as the first part of Season 4 progresses, Marty — and, particularly, Wendy — try to consolidate their political clout across the region, luring Big Pharma CEO Clare Shaw into their money-laundering web.
“I think, for Wendy, it’s this weird fusion of her two selves,” Mundy said. “She’s becoming the person she always was but didn’t realize it. She was a small-town North Carolina girl who changed her identity and moved to Chicago and was this political player, and getting back to the Ozarks and walking that ground, which is reminiscent of her childhood, those two pieces are kind of fused back together, like, ‘This is a way of making myself whole, I’m both of those people.