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Netflix's crime drama 'Ozark' is returning for its fourth and ultimate season, but why is the show ending in the first place? Here's what to know.

When Ozark fans learned that the show would be ending after Season 4, they had been stunned. Netflix's crime drama stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Byrde, a couple who depart their life in the back of to launder cash for the Mexican cartel in Missouri. Their journey has incorporated lots of twists and turns over the course of four high-stakes seasons.

Why is Ozark ending? For this sort of fan-favorite show, it is a marvel to many that they made up our minds to shut down hopes for a Season 5. Here's the whole lot we find out about why the show is ending.

So, why is 'Ozark' ending?

Actor Jason Bateman spoke to Collider in 2020 and defined why he believes Ozark is ending: "If you keep going for a whole lot longer, you're going to go over the cliff, or up over the peak of the mountain and you end up jumping the shark."

He added, "So, given the intelligence of Marty Byrde and Wendy Byrde, if they keep going at this pitch for much longer, they're either going to be killed or put in jail. The alternative is to flatten out that pitch so that you don't end up jumping the shark, but then you start stalling just for additional episodes and seasons."

To accommodate an absence of long term seasons, Ozark's ultimate season was split into two portions. The first section, Season 4, Part 1, dropped on Jan. 21, 2022, and the 2nd phase used to be released April 29, 2022. Speaking to The Wrap, govt manufacturer and showrunner Chris Mundy recently explained his reasoning behind Ozark's finish.

"We always thought five [seasons] was the outside number. It just felt like after that — we didn’t want to repeat ourselves."

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He additionally touched on this subject in a May 2022 interview with Pete Hammond of Deadline's Video Series, Behind The Lens. "We didn't want to overstay our welcome," he mentioned.

"There's always that fear if you keep going, you're going just because it's a TV show and a TV show is supposed to go on — and the one thing we wanted and kind of asked for from Netflix is just to know when our end was going to be so we could write to it."

He went on to explain that the team really did not want to have a watered down, less solidified ending in case it were given renewed.

"We wanted to definitively plan where we landed," Chris Mundy explained.

Mundy relayed to The Wrap that he fought for extra episodes as a substitute of the 5th season to make the story really feel more complete: "We could make these seven [episodes] feel complete and make the second seven feel complete, even though it’s all one continuum. I think 10 wouldn’t have been enough to tell the story in the way we wanted to. So any number over 10 and under 20 was gonna be good in my book."

The writers room was additionally informed to regard Season 4, Part 2 like a Season 5 for continuity. As Mundy defined, "When we worked in the writers room on it, we called them 401-407 and 501-507, because we wanted to think of them the way that people were going to be experiencing them ... it’s a bit of a trick in that way, they’ve gotta feel of one piece but they’ve also gotta be satisfying when you sit down to watch the 7 and you’re gonna have to wait months for the next, we wanted to make sure they felt complete."

Part 1 of Ozark Season 4 is streaming on Netflix now, at the side of the first three seasons.

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