Ozark

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Ben might as well have been wearing a red shirt the whole season. I kind of wished that Wendy had killed him herself after he put her kids in danger. I did not see the ending coming at all.

I wonder if Season 4 will be like Breaking Bad was after Fring was killed, where it turns to chaos because no one appreciated how instrumental Helen was to the whole operation. At least one of Wendy or Marty is going to die by the end of the show. My money is on Wendy, but it could still go either way.

Interesting Theory on Wendy:
Here's some smoke to add to THAT conflagration:
The wild card in this series is Jonah: At the beginning of this series, he's just a Mensa-bright middleschooler fixated on computer games. He is plunked into the Ozarks & gets a whole new type of education. Under the tutelage of Buddy, he learns everything about shooting guns & rifles. He closely watches Marty & begins building his own financial nest egg using the $ 5K given to him by Charlotte as seed money. Charlotte gifts him an "espionage" drone which he uses for multiple surveillance purposes: protection of the family "hacienda"; adolescent checking out of Charlotte, Madison, & any other young women in a bikini; & ultimately overhead scanning along with his Uncle Ben for Ruth on the ominous money pick up at the Drive-In.
Jonah adored Ben, so much so that he took it upon himself to confront Helen with his shotgun after
Ben's assassination. Only Helen's reveal that Mom Wendy was the trigger ordering Ben's hit prevented Jonah from rubbing her out.
Ben made the prescient observation that he finally saw the Wendy that he knew while growing up once she took the power in her own hands & acquired the 2nd riverboat casino. To Ben she looked as alive & unsubdued as Ben felt when he was off of his Bipolar meds. That Wendy was ultimately the cause of Ben's demise is both ironic & could be the lit fuse of her own by Jonah.
It will be interesting to see the further character development of Jonah in Season 4. Marty is trying to provide a legacy for his kids. He's asked Charlotte to run the first casino, now that Ruth's resigned. Will he actively tutor Jonah further with the accounting? Will Jonah reach out to Madison because of "the kiss"?
Season 4 is eagerly anticipated.

 

[Dove]

 

[Kolumbo]

Just finished season 3. I also think Ben is possibly still alive and his death was a ruse for some reason. As devious as some characters are, Marty is always two steps ahead.

Darlene is stone cold, maybe more so than Navarro. I despised her, but at times I gotta giver her credit.

 

[Deepster]

Just finished season 3. I also think Ben is possibly still alive and his death was a ruse for some reason. As devious as some characters are, Marty is always two steps ahead.

Darlene is stone cold, maybe more so than Navarro. I despised her, but at times I gotta giver her credit.

I just don't know why they'd keep Ben alive other than holding him over Wendy's head. That said, anytime you don't see the death on screen or the dead body, rule #1 of TV/movies is, he's not dead. Right?

 

[Kolumbo]

I just don't know why they'd keep Ben alive other than holding him over Wendy's head. That said, anytime you don't see the death on screen or the dead body, rule #1 of TV/movies is, he's not dead. Right?

There is no practical reason to keep Ben alive and it was clear he was going to get whacked sooner or later. Marty is always two steps ahead of everyone else, so perhaps he somehow got to Nelson in order to save a family member. If Ben is alive, Marty would be a savior, and a villain for making the family suffer so much.