5/12/2023 0 Comments David thomson breaking bad![]() But the peril is so well shaped and written, that’s what the critic can say. Not that safety is a sure prospect in this Ozark country. And of how the endlessly resourceful Marty becomes stunned by the compromises and the confusion of his terrible life, until his attempt at kindness withers, but sweet-smiling Wendy (Laura Linney) emerges as the polite monster who may drag the family to safety. It’s a story of a family trying to stay a family, swept away on the flood of money and drawn to the point of murder, watching it, beholding it, and doing it. ![]() In saying that, I’m thinking of what is called the concept (created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams): of how Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman), a financial adviser in Chicago, gets in such trouble with the cartel that he has to retreat to Ozark country in Missouri, with his wife Wendy and their two children, Charlotte and Jonah, and get into the frenzied business of laundering immense sums of cartel cash. We’d have taken a few more murders, I think we know that’s what the show does. If we couldn’t follow the tortuous story, we held on in delicious desperation. ![]() And if we sometimes felt we had to look away, still we watched. Ten nights in a row, we watched two episodes back to back, rationing ourselves with its first two seasons, waiting for the third. Amazing, we agreed, while understanding that perhaps the most remarkable thing was how we-decent people trying to do better-had been so attached to this Jacobean slaughter in Missouri. ![]()
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