Ozark Season 2 Episode 2 REACTION!! (extended)

Great reaction. I absolutely agree with you about the strength of the show even if it’s sometimes a lot of dialogue heavy scenes. It feels a bit like theatre for me that way and I also agree about the quality of the writing and acting. For me, this and Succession, which also has a lot of dialogue scenes rather than action, are the two best shows on television right now.

Victoria E (vickster5001)

The exact reason Cade did what he did was in direct retaliation to "Marty Byrde" having such a prominent role in Ruth's life.... it had nothing to do with the money part of it. With his brothers now gone, all he really has is Ruth and, I believe, he'd rather drag her down within his own pathetic life than see her succeed outside of the family. He's incapable of living even a semi-legitimate life. All he knows is chaos and he refuses to watch his daughter live any other way.

PaulSurraAZ

I know California used to have a 3 strike law, maybe we still do but I'm not sure. Years ago there were problems where some people would get charged and were found guilty of non-violent crimes and it was their 3rd strike and they got Life. There were lots of complaints about the law being written to broadly. I think the law was rescinded but I'm not sure and I haven't heard anything in the news about the 3 strike rule lately. Good episode, they're all good. The writers come up with so many plotlines and weird things that nothing can be believed but it sure is exciting and tense.

GERALD TODD

Actually 28 states and the federal government have three strikes laws. Some require three violent felonies, some require three felonies period. Some give you a life sentence some just make you ineligible for good time, probation or concurrent sentences. Others give large year sentences for the "third strike" (40, 50, 75, 100 years) which are effectively life sentences.

Those would probably not count for three strikes. First of all your first DUI is usually a misdemeanor. The other two are felonies though. Second of all the felonies need to be violent ones in most states that have three strikes and none of those would count as violent even with the accident.

Meredith

as far as I understand it, the three strikes law means that she's had two other violent felony convictions and adding a third means she could go to prison for life. I think only some states have that law.

BNJ