@mechajutaro said:

Season 2 has been the story of the women - Wendy, Helen, Darlene, Ruth, Rachel and Charlotte are surviving if not thriving, while the men around them, if they're lucky, have taken a back seat. And, of course, of the never-relenting skyrocketing body count, women have not near held their proportional share in that death count.

Has Ozark drifted too far from plausibility in its story arc? Or, is it well within and maintaining its compelling stickiness?

Women dying much less frequently than men, while lamenting "The Patriarchy has it's foot on our necks!!!".... That's clearly the stuff of fiction, with no basis in reality whatsoever

You have to take into account that way of thinking is popular in Hollywood right now. You are socially rewarded for talking about how bad women have it while ignoring how there are more female millionaires and leaders now more than ever. These people don't actually want gender parity because if they couldn't complain about "patriarchy" the Lilly Singhs of the world would have nothing to talk about. Some people will always see themselves as victims no matter how good they have it.

But the thing I like about Ozark's women (at least past season 1) is that they're not perfect, they have flaws, they're arrogant, ambitious, power hungry, manipulative, and the show makes an effort to show them not being right 100% of the time, like actual humans. The only mistake they've made is the lack of violent consequences for most of the women, mostly Darlene, but she's such a fun crazy character and clearly a villain that I'm letting it slide for now.