I think that was the whole point tho honestly... folks were hoping for a good ending and for the shitty people to pay for all the shitty things theyve done... lol that aint how America works
I don't see it that way, because realistically Marty should've died in Season 1, but they need a story.
There's a difference in storytelling between what should happen and what has to happen to advance a story and what writers want happen.
By the end of Season 4, the Byrds should've gotten the axe.
It's like in the Sopranos, when Tony dies off screen.
After all the shit Tony did, and all the enemies he made, what else is supposed to happen? Is he gonna live happily ever after, no. He did too much shit. Has too many loose ends throughout the story, all of that is going to fall back on him because there is no other way to end the story in a satisfying manner.
In Ozarks, given what we know about the Byrds, there's no other way the story can end.
And Ozarks says, "Hold up, let's not get rid of the Byrds because we don't want to, even though this is how the story should end."
If the Byrds were smart and capable, I could understand the ending. If the Byrds were exceptionally shrewd and were able to tie up loose ends cleanly, then I could understand the ending. If the Byrds were whisked away from danger, I could understand the ending.
But the Ozark writers basically were like, everyone gets what coming to them except the Byrds because we like them. I really think the writers just love the Byrds so much so they couldn't bare anything bad happening to them. Marty being emasculated and constantly compromising is okay and has no consequences. Wendy being bat shit crazy is okay and has no consequences. Marty's kids are making college plans. Everything is fine...yet we spend 4 seasons with everything not being fine, with their family falling apart and them being in mortal danger. So I am like, what the fuck was the point of the story?
What kind of story are you trying to tell? That incompetent criminals can get away with extraordinary crimes?
Here's some average ass White people violating the RICO act and getting away with it because y'all (meaning the writers) wanted them to?
Marty has similar characteristics to Jon Snow in regards of how he is treated within the story and his relationship with others. I hated Jon Snow. One of the worst heroes I ever seen.
Jon Snow in Game of Thrones simply exists to move plot. He has no real objections to anything going on in the story. or anything happening to him. He just deals with it. He is resigned to his fate. He doesn't learn anything, he doesn't change in regards to how he deals with the shit that is happening to him, he's just like, "Fuck it, this is my life. I am Jon Snow, and I don't know what the fuck is going on, I'm just trying to make it to another day and hopefully get out of this." While everyone else around him is learning, has ambitions and doing shit and changing and yet he wants nothing to do with it. He does what people tell him to do, reluctantly.
