Ozark (TV Series) Ellie (2022) User Reviews

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[dannylee-78082 · 9/10 · 23 January 2022]

1. Drug deal runs into a problem 2. Wyatt and charlotte reconnect 3. Wendy watches Darlene suffer

Wendy is truly terrifying. Even Darlene is taken aback by what she's become. Like a lot of people mentioned, she's walking paradox in everything she does. Her range of acting is actually becoming really wide because she plays so many roles in the show itself. Dare I say she's the main character of Ozark. Fantastic performance by Laura Linney.

OMG! Laura Linney!!!

[Oktay_Tuna · 9/10 · 25 January 2022]

I mean what a performance! What a character! What a final scene! Give her awards or something I don't know. Seeing how much Wendy is broken to this extent... She is the anti-hero, some might even call her the villain at this point. She is like a venomous snake but also a wild tiger. She is plotting things like Marty but she is also direct when she needs to which Marty lacks. She is the ideal character in all the right ways. She is scary, she is depressed. She lies to herself, she lies to everyone. Her character is getting lost while a new Wendy is getting born. She is my favorite character of the show right now and oh my God I can't stress this enough, Laura Linney is carrying this season. I mean this season is very very good on its own but with Laura Linney, I mean I am in awe. I want her to be in acclaimed films where she is the lead from now on, she has the potential to win an Oscar. That final scene though... She is the lead for me now, Marty is kind of on the back seat and I am more than okay with it now. The show realized the direction Wendy's character was going in the magnificent episode "Fire Pink" and are continuing with the character in all the right ways. And this is just the build-up, I wonder what will happen in the climax. I know one thing for sure though, Laura Linney will be ******* amazing in it.

So, how do you like the Ozarks so far?

[bosporan · 8/10 · 26 April 2022]

A strong episode, though the weakest of the season so far. Lots going on with Darlene and Wendy struggle in a superficially polite power play involving Ben and the Byrde & Langmore kids. Marty and Wendy try to push tier plan forward despite obstacles and the dogged PI turning up seemingly everywhere.

Best episode of season four (so far!)

[FilmBrat105 · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

I give in, I enjoy Ruth & Darlene's scenes. Something about detecting their tension and knowing it's gonna go horribly wrong but not knowing when is brilliant and refreshing. In a recent review I left, I said that Wendy is going down a similar path as Kim Wexler. After this final scene, I think she's going down the same path as Walter White. Her watching Darlene suffer was shocking and somewhat frightening. Wendy is absolutely my favorite character, and at this point, I can't see that changing. Hats off to Laura Linney and Lisa Emery for that closing scene. It was nice to see someone stand up to Darlene and cause her to back down.

WENDY !

[tristan_19 · 10/10 · 23 January 2022]

This episode is everything. From the first scene, with that phenomenal long shot following Mel, to the last with Wendy being absolutely savage, you will never catch your breath. The cinematography in this one is outstanding.

The main plot is so tense, and the stakes are real and tangible. The crew has to get the drugs back from two different dealers before the merchandise gets cut with other stuff. The first dealer accepts to give the drugs back pretty easily. But the second is suspicious, with reason. The whole thing feels like a delicate operation, and the Byrdes have a lot to lose. Ruth, once again, is at the center. The acting is on point.

There is also a lot of very touching moments like Jonah talking with Charlotte about college and Frank Jr seemingly turning a new leaf, after he and Ruth shared sincere thoughts.

Overall, this is definitely one of the best written and produced episodes of Ozark, and it will be remembered for sure.

911?

[dantascezar · 10/10 · 31 January 2022]

Ao you sit on the grass and watch your video enemy die. You called 911, but... who cares?! You ignore your phone and just watch! (Wendy is amazing!)

And what about the voting machines? Any relation to reality is just a coincidence. Or not.

One of the best episodes!

Really Solid Episode

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 29 March 2022]

Ozark has a grim view of our country, and that may be its strongest characteristic. In Ozark's world, everyone's a grifter, everyone's constantly hustling, everyone's on the make and on the take. In the fifth episode of the show's final season ("Ellie"), Wendy Byrde is both a student and a teacher of how to wheel and deal and profit from the misfortune of others. At the request of Senator Schafer, an old political rival whose support she now needs in the form of a seat on her charity foundation's board, she uses her connections to pull an FBI file on an insider-training investigation into his son. That son, a federal judge, may have done some insider trading predicated on the success of his own son's new voting-machine technology. Turns out the Feds weren't on his tail after all, but that's not really what the senator was worried about. The thing that mattered here is that the voting machines were impossible to audit externally, allowing them to suppress votes and rig elections-and since his son is off the hook, that gave him the maneuvering room to find and silence, permanently, a software engineer who was prepared to blow the whistle on this right-wing election-rigging scheme. Wendy, a dutiful liberal-she worked for Obama for god's sake, before she started doing organized crime-is aghast when she discovers what she's done. But she's not so aghast that she fails to maintain the illusion that the Byrde Family Foundation represents some golden ticket out of trouble for herself and her family. There's one more wheeler and dealer to consider: Mel Sattem, the private investigator sniffing around after missing persons Helen and Ben. A former cop who lost his job when he was caught red-handed-or white-nosed-doing coke in the evidence locker of his precinct, he's formidably good at his job, though he's got things slightly wrong. He believes, correctly, that the Byrdes know something about Helen's disappearance; he's concluded, erroneously, that Ben killed her and that they're hiding Ben, not knowing they were responsible for Ben's death.

Wendy is so manipulative and sadistic that I might even root for Darlene

[gedikreverdi · 23 January 2022]

The private detective thinks Ben killed Helen and now they hide him. Ruth and the Byrds become business partners again and Darlene makes a deal with the mob's son whom she shot in the crotch. Ben's missing posters are all over and Wendy managed to manipulate this for her own good. Jonah told Darlene that his parents got rid of the sheriff's body at the crematorium to show his loyalty. Did Wendy just watch Darlene dying on the ground?

Solid episode

[jaegersteven · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

In this episode is not much tension as in the previous ones but that's ok .

This episode is pretty good building up the plot and the plans and decision the characters will made .

Heroine Deals All Over The Place

[ZegMaarJus · 8/10 · 5 August 2022]

This Episode begins with Mel, he got caught by a guard. Ruth has a deal with Marty about the drugs. Darlene bought the heroine to Frank jr, Marty has some big problems right now. Mel interviews Ruth about Helen, he wants to find her back. But Helen already died. Darlene got a heart attack, but Wendy refused to call an ambulance. Nice Episode of Ozark Season 4, still this serie is so good and smooth!

Ellie

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 1 February 2022]

A little bit better than the last few episodes, but overall still pretty underwhelming. We saw the ending coming from a mile away if you've ever watched any TV show or movie before.

S4.E5 - Heart Attack [9/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 9/10 · 7 June 2024]

(S4. E5) My Live Reaction / Review for Ozark Season 4 Episode 5 ''Ellie''. The previous episode was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. Darlene sold the heroin to Cogrove Jr? So that means no heroin for Marty and Wendy? That's really bad news. Marty found a way to get the heroin back, that's awesome. Only half of the heroin? That sucks. This PI just wont stop until he finds Helen, he is annoying at this point. Marty got all the heroin? That's good news. Darlene is having a heart attack and Wendy just watches? Wendy is so evil just like Darlene. Overall good performances by the actors and intriguing plot. This episode was good and I enjoyed it. My rating is 9/10.

Really?

[jamesmahoney · 6/10 · 3 July 2022]

The former Senator who wants to commit election fraud is a Republican, even as a growing mountain of Real World evidence proves that the opposite is true. The Netfilx Woke agenda is on full display.

Money laundering to drug dealing...?

[ecsecs-91225 · 5/10 · 24 January 2022]

So Marty who has been an expert money launderer for every season, which is what the show was founded on, to being a drug dealer? Anyway none of the characters this season are acting like they have any common sense. Every season before had the build up of tension was cleaver and all the characters were cleaver. This season they're witless and making amateurish mistakes, especially the cartel, who are always careful to not draw attention. Now it's the opposite... especially to kill a sheriff in the home of a person you had killed, DUMB! No matter they gave up the search of the missing sheriff after a week... what the what! The whole county would be crawling with Feds until he was found, which is why the cartel knows not to come here and kill the sheriff of the town where one of your operations takes place, REALLY DUMB! Nothing going on this season makes any sense.

Out of character episode

[trisalim · 2/10 · 28 January 2022]

Episodes 1-4 were fantastic but episode 5 was a mess.

Marty answers the door for Mel, lets him take a step in the house, and then chats friendly with him? Last they spoke, Marty told him never to set foot on his property again, then flipped him the bird.

The make up scene with Ruth and Frank Jr. Was cringe. Ruth apologizing for throwing Frank Jr. Off the boat? Feels like that was thrown in to remind a dumb audience that they have history. It was forced. Not even Julia Garner could salvage it.

The scene with Jim, Wendy, and the senator was nonsense. Schaefer had no motivation to reveal that his son or grandson were involved in voter fraud. That would only give Wendy and Jim leverage on him. It makes no sense. Clearly the showrunners just wanted to add some moral drama inspired by current events at the expense of quality storytelling.

How did Ruth convince the second heroin buyer to sell her back the drugs? One moment we're worried he might kill her, and the next she's walking back to Marty and Rambo. What did she say to diffuse the situation and change his mind? It feels like the climax of that scene was cut in editing.

When did Rambo become Rambo? And those guys were armed with assault rifles, what was he going to do? But the biggest problem with this scene was Marty pulling a that dude's gun on him. Marty is the opposite of an action hero, he would never do that. I think he would put himself in danger to save Ruth, but the show hasn't shown us that yet, and is still building up to that climax.

It's impossible that Darlene would be scared into a heart attack by Wendy. Wendy is menacing but Darlene is a stone cold psycho killer. She does not get scared. That whole scene was pointless. What was Darlene's motivation for going over to the Byrdes? To tell off Wendy?

For the first time this season, Charlotte was wasted as filler material. The will-or-won't-go-to-college plot is absurd given the gravity of everything else the characters are dealing with. Marty would never fight over this with Wendy.

The drama over the Ben posters was ridiculous. Darlene put them up offscreen--really? Wendy would never sardonically mock Darlene like that. And even if she did, Darlene wouldn't get irritated about it. Charlotte wouldn't bother talking to Wyatt--they haven't spoken since when, 2 seasons ago--and Wyatt would never talk to Darlene about it on Charlotte's behalf. The whole point of that ridiculous subplot was to put Darlene in the hospital next episode, and possibly show cracks in the Darlene-Wyatt relationship. Feels like it could have been executed better.

It just feels that production lost the plot on this episode. The script isn't true to these characters, certainly not to the rest of the season, which has been absolutely brilliant.

Jonah is disgusting

[maryoraffael · 1/10 · 24 January 2022]

Can we stop with this disgusting character?

14yo genius that launders money for an 70yo lunatic women that killed her husband and many other people ?

Also their parents do nothing about it and allow him all the freedom.

In real world this never happens ? Hello i know its movie, but for fk sake, this is not SCI-FI.

Also the detective thing asking all people about Helen its just boring and repetetitive.

Also Marty never had any balls in all 4 seasons, kinda beta man if u ask me.

Very passive, its actually insane.

I only watch this for Wendy. The real hero of this series.

Weirder and weirder

[nemesis-88 · 1/10 · 27 January 2022]

Yes, that's how you get to the top of a drug cartel - by being unpredictable and mysterious and by demanding the impossible. And of course by having a nephew who shoots cops at the tip of the hat and stops deals made way above his head. Sure, that's how this dangerous business gets its billions - by being crazy.

Suddenly the pharma CEO frilly girl has some kind of a rent-a-Rambo who is ready to kill three people for her in the middle of the night just to get a bag of powdered heroin. He is completely okay that suddenly he has to participate in illegal drug deals, and get industrial pharmaceutical supplies from the back of an SUV at an amateur race track. Sure, that's how pharma companies work.

Former US senator who "kept his influence" (HOW?) is openly talking about stealing FBI files about his son, the federal judge. And why he does that? OF COURSE, to kill a whistleblower who discovered their plan to rig voting machines in order to be able "turn the elections". Need I say he is a republican senator?

All-in-all, Netflix is desperately trying to compete with HBO on who's the wokest of them all.

They had TWO years to figure this out and now this ?!

[souder-35922 · 1/10 · 29 January 2022]

Ridiculous. Abomination. Absolute travesty. I'm not sure where to start. Story lines searching for ways to elevate the conflict again and again and again until it is no longer believable. The head of the cartel is now on speed dial???? Really?? B. S. You kill your brother and turn your back on you high school son? B. S. PLEASE KILL WENDY NOW!! Or Laura Linney since she is absolutely the worst character and actress. Good Lord! What more can you do to a slam dunk hit to annihilate it. And Jason, stop dieting. You look emaciated and unhealthy.

Who wrote this?

[niksrowland · 1/10 · 9 February 2022]

What an absolute mess! On top of a stupid plot featuring a wrong sell to Cosgrove, every scene in this episode holds no meaning or advancement of any plot point or character development whatsoever. It's almost as if the writers are screaming "it doesn't matter!" right in our faces.

Ruth's face off with dealers: Doesn't Matter Marty's face off: Doesn't Matter Darlenes stroke: Doesn't Matter

It doesn't matter, none of it does.

Lost the plot completely

[gibsonalan · 1/10 · 29 May 2022]

Too many ridiculous scenes in this episode. No reason for the senator to make a full confession. Why is marty entering the PI. Why did the dealer give in to Ruth. Who is paying this PI so much to keep him around for weeks? The KC mob seem completely toothless and business woman Clair is now seconds away from ordering a hit on a house full of strangers when nothing in her character makes her that sort of person. Its so lazy that the writers seem to think anyone still watching the show will swallow anything. Throw in a convenient heart attack at the end to try and support another plot twist. Mad stuff altogether!