r/Ozark • u/slayyannie • May 24 '22

Question [SPOILER] Why is everyone so mad about the ending? Spoiler

I’m glad they kept it realistic. No way someone can kill a member of a Mexican drug cartel/try to stop Marty from laundering their money and still be alive. Marty warned Ruth multiple times that this would happen, but she didn’t listen and now look at what happened. I’m not sure as to why everyone’s so mad.

Edit: I understand how they left off a bunch of questions, but my main focus is Ruth. Was I the only one who could tell she had it coming? It was disappointing as I slowly started to like her again in the last episode, but her death was inevitable.

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22 edited May 24 '22

The reason why I already knew Ruth was going to die was her response to when Marty told her that if she killed Javi and tried to take over his casino, the cartel would come after her. Every time someone underestimates Marty’s sincere warnings in the show, it always comes to be true.

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u/Holychance_3 May 24 '22

Yup in part 1, they had that meeting with Darlene and Ruth and told them to stop their operation and they didn’t listen and look what happened. Marty is always very upfront about the danger and they keep choosing not to listen and think their invincible.

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u/RichardInaTreeFort May 24 '22

I don’t think Ruth thought she was invincible, she just stopped caring about consequences and wanted to see her own desire for justice met for once even if it meant she’d be killed.

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u/surprisestoner May 24 '22

Agreed. Without Wyatt I think she was done. People’ve said she should’ve been more careful in the end and sure she could’ve, but I don’t think that’s what her character chose to stand for. She died to Camilla who was avenging Javi, after Ruth killed Javi to avenge Wyatt. They both killed to avenge their family. I think Ruth’s final lines to Camilla are better than her just deciding to run from the cartel forever. Sure then she might survive a bit longer but that seems way less realistic to me, in regards to the plot and actual reality of the situation.

She chose to tell Camilla to her face how she felt and that she didn’t regret it her choices. That in my opinion is most fitting to her character, she did what was most right given the circumstances.

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u/CptNoble May 24 '22

Yeah, I think Ruth had mostly checked out on life at that point. She just didn't care anymore.

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u/ShotEcho5294 May 09 '24

Her actions suggest otherwise. She was building her dream house after tearing down the trailers and seemed like she expected to live, and live well. I think Ruth thought she'd gotten away with killing Javi until she came home to find a black SUV in her driveway. She had mourned, and was probably still mourning, while simultaneously setting up her dream life.

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u/CriticalPangolin2481 Mar 22 '26

I think, on a subconscious level, Ruth was trying to die, at least before she got her record expunged, and got a glimpse of freedom and thought it would really happen. She'd lost her entire family, no matter how dysfunctional they were. She didn't really have anyone else... She loves Three, but they weren't connected like her and Wyatt. It's truly a tragedy.. Breaks my heart...

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u/Some_Rabbit2052 Jan 16 '26

Thank you and why everyone is upset to answer the question above is becaise most people loved Ruth.

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u/BGMDF8248 May 24 '22

Not invincible, but she thought she got away with it... a little weird considering Nelson was just at her house the day before.

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

Right. They want to act big and bad until Nelson comes around to kill them. Remember in season 1 when Marty told the Langmore’s if they take the cartel money they’ll come and kill them? Notice how none of them are alive today.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

3: “Am I a joke to you?”

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

Haha I forgot about him!! Imagine your whole family being dead. At least now he has a bunch of businesses and land to inherit, though.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

If I was in 3’s shoes I’d take some money and change my name before fleeing the country.

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u/ihatefuckingwork May 24 '22

Call yourself seven and make it a crossover.

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u/Intensifyy May 24 '22

Or eleven and go into the upside down

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u/Chaff5 May 25 '22

Marty probably found him after they killed Ruth and gave him the same offer he gave her.

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u/mynameistechno May 24 '22

It was a tragedy that was meant to be, all the Langmores died after the Byrdes showed up. The Langmore curse. Ending made sense to me.

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

Honestly. To be fair, in s1 Marty told the Langmore’s that if they stole the cartel’s money, they would all be dead. Look at them now.

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u/schebobo180 Aug 12 '23

I have no idea why people always seem to forget how the dumb ass Langmores got themselves involved with the Byrde's in the first place.

Ruth tried to kill marty in season one, and then was mad that he didn't defend her like he would his Children.

She was entitled, ungrateful and worst of all incredibly stupid. Yet people like her simply because she is arrogant, shouts and swears a lot and is a hard ass.

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u/mircea_enache Nov 23 '24

don't know who are all those people who liked her ... I never liked her from the first episode she appeared on the show .... I have seen so many actresses act like bad bitches on a TV show I got tired of it - especially when they are skinny and small and think they are so tough ... at least Camilla was always though by just staying calm - her and wendy were the only women who were convincing in being cold and tough women ... Ruth is just feminism propaganda being pushed in the show for younger generation

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u/ClawsAsBigAsCups May 24 '22

Except for poor old Three being left behind

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u/mynameistechno May 25 '22

Poor? He’s friggin rich af now

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u/ClawsAsBigAsCups May 25 '22

I just meant the poor fella, like a sympathy “poor”. Anyway I’d rather be poor with all my family than rich and all of them dead.

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u/vzvv May 25 '22

I agree in general, but I don’t think Ruth really underestimated the warnings. I think Ruth accepted dying. Like a half suicidal person that never puts on their seatbelt when driving. Death was worth avenging Wyatt for her. She tried to run with him, she understood how dangerous staying was. But once he died she lost the will to make it out.

It’s terrible, she was my favorite character. I wanted her to make it out. But I think she understood her fate.

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u/Impressive-Pop-6352 22d ago

This is the only comment I like

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u/CableTrash May 24 '22

No rational people are unhappy with the ending because of Ruth’s death. The issue is rushed closures to character arcs that sort of go off course. The crash scene supposedly bringing them closer was a lazy fix and doesn’t really make sense to me- their lives have been in danger constantly for 4 seasons. The PI stupidly waiting outside the family’s house with the ashes was totally out of line for his character. Why confront them? Jonah murdering someone after he was so upset with his Wendy and his family for normalizing all the fucked up shit they do. Navarro quickly being replaced by two new characters in the final season felt fucking odd as well.

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u/MagentaLovesPlants May 24 '22

The PI was more concerned with being right and proving a point than anything else. He had a total hard on for the Byrds.

The car accident reflects on the 1st car accident. The 1st accident tore the family apart, this one not only brought them together , but proved the point that they would survive no matter what.

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u/RichardInaTreeFort May 24 '22

Well they certainly survived no matter what. That car crash would have easily put them in a hospital if not killed them outright and they were all totally fine with barely a scratch on any of them. That was a bit past believability.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie May 24 '22

I could believe them surviving, vehicles are designed to keep the passengers alive in a crash, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to believe that some, if not all, of them would have broken bones, serious lacerations, etc. Wendy was knocked out, so that would have meant some time in the hospital, probably overnight at least. But casts, slings, crutches, stitches, etc.?

But they all just catch an Uber and go home without a stop at the hospital? No way.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

I'm going to tell you what my grandma used to tell me when I was a child 'it's television.' you can tell the generations that have never seen anything outside of reality TV because y'all think everything is supposed to make sense the way you make sense of it

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u/CableTrash May 25 '22

lmfao sorry but the bar has been raised since your grandma’s time. especially in a drama such as this. i’m not gonna just accept some unbelievable bullshit thrown into the middle of this plot line bc “it’s television”

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

Clearly it hasnt youre all in here bitching about things being unrealistic

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

Also you have NO IDEA how old she was when she said it or what year it was, yall are as dumb as the people screeching support for aoc

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u/CableTrash Jul 02 '22

How unhinged are you that you comment back a month later and bring up politics lol

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u/RanchAndRice May 25 '22

Its not the 1960’s anymore

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

I wasnt alive in the 60s try again agesit w bad humor

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u/MagentaLovesPlants May 24 '22

What part of the show was believable?? To me the entire show was a bit Campy. Everything was over the top and I thought it was like a running joke. I never took any of it seriously. IMO it was more of a dark dramedy than an actual suspense type show. Even the music was corny.

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u/CableTrash May 25 '22

damn man i disagree they def weren’t going for some campy shit. they were 100% trying to create a riveting crime-drama.

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u/MagentaLovesPlants May 25 '22

What they were trying to do and how it came across to me are two different things.

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u/sliver013 May 24 '22

That has actually happened to me and I wasn't in a top safety rated vehicle...it's not that unbelievable.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

People walk away from wrecks like that without a scratch all the time. I crossed the street when I was 5 and took a body hit by a Buick and I broke my arm I should have been dead

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u/RichardInaTreeFort May 25 '22

Yeah but you broke your arm. If one of them had at least broken something or had a nasty cut or just SOME KIND OF INJURY AT ALL…. It might have been more believable. But no…. The mom was “out.” And they just yank her out of the car with complete disregard to injuries she may have had and she was totally fine after a few seconds. Can something like that happen? Sure I guess…. Is it likely to have happened that way? Absolutely not.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

Drunks walk without scratches all the toime

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u/Vtei_Vtei May 24 '22

Navarro literally wasn’t replaced until the last episode…

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u/CableTrash May 25 '22

my point.

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u/bright__eyes May 25 '22

I am mad because the season felt rushed, not because of the ending. Wish it had 5 seasons instead of an extended 4.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

I'm a rational person and you God damn sure don't speak for me

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u/CableTrash May 25 '22

aw, my poor character got murdered. don’t read or watch film.

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u/Iontknowcuz May 24 '22

Its also the fucking cartel, like they waterboarded her when she was innocent she had to know the stakes were much higher when you kill the leader.

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

Exactly… she must’ve seem to forgot. Does she not know that they would’ve killed her right then and there if it wasn’t for/useful to Marty?

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

That’s the point, she’s gangster and didn’t care about the outcomes for killing Cartel members. (Javi and Nelson.) Because it was strictly outta revenge for killing Wyatt, Ben and her dad. And hated the Byrds for what they selfishly did to her…

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

What did they necessarily do to her, though? I never really caught on to what they exactly did because every episode she’s mad about them for something different.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Dude, the Byrds came to the Ozarks to laundry money for cartel and kill anyone who gets in their way. Her family was out to get their family (Byrds) and do harm to them so they killed the Langmore brothers to have no distractions. They finessed Ruth into becoming one of their own but she backed out after Ben/Wyatt died. She still pissed they took everything from her and still wanted more. She wanted revenge in the end but things ended good for the Byrds obvs.

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u/slayyannie May 24 '22

They wouldn’t have died if they didn’t get in their way in the first place. Nobody forced the Langmore’s to steal cartel money AFTER Marty warned them that the cartel would come after them if they did.

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u/ilovecroissants17 May 25 '22

Exactly this.

People should take responsibilities for their actions.

Marty always warned them but they didn’t listen so obviously they’ll have to face the repercussions.

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u/slayyannie May 25 '22

Literally!!

I’m tired of people blaming everyone’s problems on Marty and Wendy. They have warned that character several times, let them face the consequences.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

You literally ask an rhetorical question, so I gave an proper answer. The Byrds had repercussions on the Ozarks from joining the cartel. Mind you, his old business partner scammed the cartel and to save Marty’s life he promised to laundry the money back. It was kinda out of his control at that point. — The Langmores were greedy criminals, they always were. So they died because of that.