Ozark, debuting Friday, July 21, on Netflix

At the beginning of “Ozark,” debuting Friday, July 21, on Netflix, Jason Bateman’s Marty Byrde is a money manager sleepwalking through life in the Chicago suburbs — his children are disinterested in him, and his wife, played by Laura Linney, is plainly dissatisfied.

By the end of the first episode, he is wide-awake — he has witnessed multiple murders and is moving his family to Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks in a last-ditch effort to placate the drug lord he has been laundering money for in secret. His new mission: “Clean” $8 million by the end of the summer, or everyone dies. Also, parry the F.B.I. officers, local cops and crime clans that plague him along the way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/arts/television/ozark-netflix-jason-bateman-laura-linney.html?smid=fb-share