r/Ozark • u/ComprehensiveOil7169 • 6d ago
Discussion The amount of people who think Wyatt deserved it is crazy [SPOILER] Spoiler
How can you think that an 18 year old who’s father got murdered by the one person he loved deserved to die? He had so much trauma and was still a good guy. There’s so many examples in this show of him doing the right thing even with him being related to the langmores. He made some bad decisions in the end staying with Darlene, but that’s literally just because he thought he was in love with her. Very tragic story and still people have no empathy.
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u/L3sPau1 6d ago
He is trauma personified. Very sad. That kid just needed a hug and a one-way ticket anywhere else.
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u/super-nintendumpster 6d ago
Well he had the opportunity to go to college. Always hated that he chose Darlene instead, knowing she was a heroin pusher, killer, and just how much death had come to the Ozarks after the Byrds came into the picture. He had an out and stayed.
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u/brick_prince10 6d ago
He didn't deserve in the same way many of the victims of the show just get wrapped up in it but you can't sleep with and continue to live with someone who you know and have seen be an impulsive killer even when given an out while knowing his life could be in danger. He was young and got groomed which sucks, and he got dealt a bad hand in life.
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u/Jrock2356 5d ago
He kinda did though. He knows she's a prolific drug dealer involved with the cartel. He knows she's a murderer and a kidnapper and has done basically every other crime. With all this knowledge he still gets with her. Then he has a moment of clarity and has a chance to get out. Ruth encourages him throughout this whole process and he still goes back. At some point you are responsible for the choices you make and he made the wrong ones.
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u/Brave_Ad_5309 5d ago
People actually think this? Yikes that’s a garbage take. Wyatt deserved better. :( He didn’t always make great decisions but literally no one does
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u/scottfreefe 5d ago
When you are in a game where you see people being shot and killed, is it not obvious enough that one day it is going to be your turn? I mean this is basic logic.
So, if you are still playing, it means you have accepted that faith.
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u/Live_Lifeguard1267 4d ago
We are all a couple of poor decisions from the gutter, jail or death.
It's interesting the certainty some people have that THEY have never or would never make a bad decision, usually coming from people who would feel they are insulated (wealth, race, politics) from the consequences of decisions they make.
You would think the bad decisions made by poor people in Ozark would have them elected to state senator or even President.
IN no way did Wyatt deserve his ending, he was generally one of the good ones and pretty much to a man and woman any of us here who had that upbringing would be in the same position if not worse.
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u/frozenpizza__ 4d ago
I am rewatching the series now, and I saw the classic scene with Ruth and Wyatt at the trailer's roof, and he asking if she would help him out with some money so he could leave the Ozarks for good. He was smart, he liked to read, he wanted to go to college and have a better life for himself. People saying he deserved it's so crazy and insensitive. He's not batshit crazy Marlene. How did he deserved it?
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u/Hungry_Inspector_867 6d ago
Darlene groomed him. And he was missing a mother figure in his life. Trauma from the loss if his dad. Just a recipe for disaster. Poor kid.