Ozark Trivia | 40 facts about the Netflix series

One of the most remarkable science fiction series, that immediately draw the attention of the viewers on Netflix is Ozark.

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1. Ozark is an American crime drama streaming television series.
2. It was created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams.
3. It was created for Netflix.
4. It was produced by Media Rights Capital.
5. The series stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as Marty and Wendy Byrde.
6. They are playing a married couple who relocate their family to the Lake of the Ozarks for money laundering.
7. Bateman also serves as a director and executive producer for the series.
8. The ten-episode first season was released on July 21, 2017.
9. The ten-episode second season was released on August 31, 2018.
10. The third season (also ten episodes) was released on March 27, 2020.
11. In June 2020, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which will consist of 14 episodes split into two parts.
12. Ozark has received a largely positive reception from critics, with praise towards its tone, acting, directing, and writing.
13. The series has received 32 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including two for Outstanding Drama Series, with Bateman winning for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series in 2019 and Julia Garner winning twice consecutively for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and 2020.
14. Bateman has received two further Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
15. Ozark is set at a modest waterfront resort at Lake of the Ozarks, inspired by the Alhonna Resort and Marina, where series creator Dubuque worked as a dock hand while attending college in Missouri during the 1980s.
16. Originally, Jason Bateman was supposed to be the sole director for the first season.
17. Because the schedule did not allow enough preparation time, he directed only the first two and last two episodes.
18. In order to make Ozark as realistic and sensible as possible when it comes to depicting money laundering, the writers for the show brought in an FBI agent who works on financial crimes into the writer’s room.
19. They also brought in a hedge fund manager, for information about moving large sums of money.
20. Beam Solutions, a financial compliance software company, considered the series’ accuracy to be “both plausible and very creative.”
21. The series was renewed for a 10-episode second season on August 15, 2017.
22. On October 10, 2018, the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season.
23. On June 30, 2020, Netflix renewed the series for its fourth and final season, which will consist of 14 episodes split into two parts.
24. Graphic designer Fred Davis created a white letter ‘O’, which is featured on a black background at the beginning of each episode. Within the quartered circle of the ‘O’ are four symbols which foreshadow the main plot points in that episode. Additionally, each of these hand-drawn symbolic images are formed to represent the remaining letters in “Ozark”.
25. For example, for episode one, a kneeling man represents “Z”; a building represents “A”; a gun represents “R”; and a falling man represents “K”.
26. Most of the shooting locations are in the Atlanta area at Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier, rather than at the Lake of the Ozarks, because of tax breaks offered by the state of Georgia.
27. The film crew constructed a set in Georgia after extensively studying the Alhonna Resort property.
28. Some scenes are filmed at Chicago locations.
29. Filming for the fourth season began on November 9, 2020, and is scheduled to conclude on September 30, 2021.
30. There is a bar in The Lake Of The Ozarks called “Marty Byrde’s”
31. Lake of the Ozarks, a man-made lake, is often referred to as the “Redneck Riviera” and attracts an estimated 5 million holidaymakers annually. It is also nicknamed “The Magic Dragon” because of its serpentine configuration that stretches 92 miles from end to end with a shoreline greater than that of California.
32. Every movie and TV show Jason Bateman is in he wears his favorite tennis shoes: “NB” (New Balance).
33. Small rural towns near Osage Beach and Camdenton were flooded when the Bagnell Dam was built. Residents were forced to move out of the valleys that ultimately were filled up with water.
34. Production for the fourth and confirmed final season began filming, despite the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
35. Filming began on November 9th 2020 in Georgia and is set to continue across the U.S. with very strict protocols and precautions in place, such as color coded areas for the safety of the actors and crew members.
36. Jason Bateman took the role of Marty Byrde because he wanted to act in a serious role and felt he was typecast as a straight man in comedies
37. The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains, is a physiographic and geologic highland region of the central United States, primarily in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
38. Ozark is based around central Missouri at Lake of the Ozarks, but filming was completed in multiple locations such as Lake of the Ozarks Missouri and Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier in Georgia.
39. Writer Bill Dubuque was born in St. Louis, Missouri, spending time working on the Lake of the Ozarks as a teen, and the series is somewhat inspired by his real life.
40. The Big Muddy Casino is located in St. Joseph MO. People from Missouri commonly refer to the city as St. Joe, not St. Joe’s as Wendy Byrde calls it.