133 Fun Facts About Ozark

The Byrde family relocates from which city to the Lake of the Ozarks?

Chicago is the home the Byrdes' teenage daughter misses so badly that in season one she skips school and boards a bus back, until Ruth and Wendy fetch her home.

Why does the cartel execute Marty Byrde's partner Bruce in Ozark's first episode?

He skimmed its money: Bruce and the truckers who moved the cash had taken $8 million, and Marty had to repay it by liquidating everything he owned.

What must Rachel Garrison do for the FBI when she returns to the Blue Cat in Ozark's second season?

Wear a wire: Agent Petty uses her arrest after a crash under the influence to force her back to record Marty, and she finally kisses him to stop him saying more.

What is Ruth Langmore's relationship to Wyatt Langmore?

Cousin: their fathers are brothers, and Ruth pushes Wyatt towards college because she wants one Langmore kept out of the family's life of crime.

Who plays the role of Marty Byrde?

Jason Bateman plays Marty Byrde, yet his only Emmy for the show came for directing: his season two opener beat three episodes of Game of Thrones' final season.

Which business do the Byrdes buy as a laundering front after the strip club in Ozark's first season?

A funeral home: when the realtor's mother dies, the Byrdes offer to pay for her lavish funeral and end up buying the business, whose crematorium later makes several bodies vanish.

Which legal threat do Marty and Helen Pierce use to make Jacob Snell give up land for the casino in Ozark?

Eminent domain, along with riparian rights, would let the government take the land anyway; Jacob gives in, then decides to kill his wife Darlene to keep the peace.

What does Ruth Langmore do to an unruly player during a poker game on the Byrdes' casino boat in Ozark?

Throws him overboard: he turns out to have mob connections, and Marty has to buy peace by handing over a bigger share of the casino's profits.

Rather than at the real Lake of the Ozarks, Ozark was mostly filmed in which state?

Georgia: Ozark was shot around Atlanta rather than in Missouri, with Georgia lakes standing in for the Lake of the Ozarks, lured by the state's film tax credit.

Which Navarro cartel hitman kills Ruth's father, Wendy's brother and finally lawyer Helen Pierce in Ozark?

Nelson does most of the cartel's killing in the Ozarks until Rachel, warned by a phone call from Ruth, shoots him from the roof of Ruth's trailer.

What is the name of the strip club Marty initially buys to launder money?

Lickety Splitz: Marty buys the money-losing strip club as a front and Ruth turns it into a moneymaker, though Sam Dermody runs it in name only once her felony record threatens the casino application.

What deal does agent Maya Miller offer Marty Byrde in Ozark's third season?

Prison, then an FBI job: 18 months inside, after which he would work for her team on laundering cases; Marty accepts, and is promptly abducted by the cartel.

What object inspired Marty's spur-of-the-moment pitch to launder money in the Ozarks?

A tourism flier his partner had handed him earlier catches Marty's eye as the gun comes up, and he spins it into a pitch that the lake's summer crowds are loaded with cash.

Which birds is young Jonah Byrde studying when he alarms his parents by cutting open a dead coyote in Ozark?

Vultures circle the Byrdes from the day they move in, and Jonah's parents fear something darker until he explains he only wanted to watch them feed.

Darlene Snell kills her husband Jacob, who was plotting to kill her, by poisoning which drink?

Coffee laced with poison; the two pledge their love to each other as he dies, and Darlene takes over as the area's crime boss.

Which slang term describes the work of Ruth's laundering team at the casino in Ozark's third season?

Smurfing launders cash through many small transactions, here by a rotating team of gamblers; to phase it out, Wendy asks a friend to lose a large sum at the casino on purpose.

How do attorney Helen Pierce's men interrogate Ruth Langmore when the cartel suspects her of informing in Ozark?

Waterboarding fails to break Ruth, which impresses Helen; a season later the cartel does the same to Helen herself, to learn what her ex-husband knows.

What is the primary product of the Snell family's criminal enterprise?

Heroin: the Snells have grown opium poppies on their land for generations and refine them into heroin, which the cartel later agrees to distribute as part of the casino land deal.

How does Marty get FBI agent Roy Petty to leave the Ozarks for a while in season two?

Through Petty's addicted mother: Marty has a cartel associate supply her with drugs, Petty goes home to care for her, and Marty uses the gap to send Petty's informant away for treatment.

What is the name of Marty and Wendy's daughter?

Charlotte Byrde is the Byrdes' elder child; in season two she hires a lawyer and tries to become legally emancipated from her parents.

Wyatt moves in with Darlene Snell in exchange for doing what?

Working her farmland: Wyatt, homeless after turning down college, moves onto the Snell farm in exchange for farm work; he later marries Darlene, and both are shot dead right after the wedding.

FBI agent Roy Petty goes undercover at the lake in Ozark's first season by hiring a local man as what?

A fishing guide: Petty uses the trips to get close to one of Ruth's uncles, starts an affair with him, then reveals it was a ploy to turn him informant.

How does Ruth Langmore kill her two uncles in Ozark before they can rob and murder Marty?

Electrocution: Ruth wires a dock so that one uncle dies on touching it and the other trying to save him, the same trap she had earlier set for Marty.

After robbing the Byrdes' hotel room, Ruth talks Marty into hiring her at the Blue Cat in what job?

Dishwasher: Ruth blackmails her way into the Blue Cat kitchen, telling her family she will learn the laundering, kill Marty and take the money; she becomes his partner instead.

How do Ruth and Wendy force the owners of a rival casino to sell up in Ozark's third season?

They rig its slot machines to pay out constantly until the Big Muddy's owners give in; the purchase then brings an FBI audit of every Byrde business.

Which actor plays Omar Navarro?

Felix Solis plays Omar Navarro, who has Marty abducted to Mexico and then confides that he admires Wendy because she 'wants it all'.

The Lake of the Ozarks' twisting shape on a map has earned Ozark's setting a nickname after which creature?

A dragon: seen from the air the dammed river's winding arms resemble one, hence 'the Missouri Dragon' and a local car show called the Magic Dragon Street Meet.

Private investigator Mel Sattem, who dogs the Byrdes in Ozark's final season, left what career in disgrace?

Police detective: Mel Sattem lost his badge after being caught with cocaine from the evidence room; the Byrdes later get him reinstated just to stop him testifying against them.

Where is the cartel's $50 million hidden by the end of Ozark's second season?

In a mausoleum: Marty moves the cash into his late tenant's tomb, so when Ruth and her father break in elsewhere to steal it they find nothing.

What does Ozark's boat pastor do to his half-built church on learning Marty funded it to launder money?

Burns it down: the Snells, who want him back preaching on the water, tell him what Marty's money is really for, and he sets fire to the framework.

Which wealthy political donor does Wendy work on, and eventually extort, to win backing for the casino?

Charles Wilkes: Wendy compromises the donor by routing cartel money into his charity, then uses the threat of exposure to secure his votes for the casino bill.

What gadget does the youngest Byrde child use to keep watch for the family?

Drones: Jonah flies drones to keep watch over the family and the lake house; his footage of a cartel ambush on a truck later helps identify the attackers in season three.

How does Helen Pierce talk Jonah out of shooting her at the end of Ozark's third season?

She blames Wendy for Ben: told that his own mother had a hand in her brother's death, Jonah lowers the gun and spends most of the final season in revolt against her.

Ruth's plan to distribute Darlene's product in Ozark's final season runs through Kerry Stone, who is what?

A celebrity chef and casino high roller, Kerry Stone is Ruth's intended distributor until he overdoses on the product during a night at the casino and backs out.

Which FBI agent, Roy Petty's ex-lover, takes over the Byrde investigation after Petty's death?

Trevor Evans approaches the Byrdes on Petty's instructions in season one; they refuse to be intimidated, and he stays on their trail for three seasons.

What does Sam Dermody do for a living when Wendy first goes to work for him?

Real estate agent: Sam Dermody sells lake property, and Wendy joins his realty office in season one; the hapless Sam later fronts the Byrdes' strip club, develops a gambling addiction at their casino, and later goes to work for Ruth.

Which actor plays hot-headed cartel heir Javi Elizonndro in Ozark's final season?

Alfonso Herrera plays Javi Elizonndro, the cartel heir who murders Wyatt and Darlene just after their wedding and is shot dead by Ruth in revenge.

What happens to Ruth Langmore in Ozark's final episode?

She is killed: Camila Elizonndro shoots Ruth dead outside her trailer in the final episode; the series then ends with Jonah raising a shotgun at Mel Sattem and a cut to black.

What is the name of the casino the Byrdes establish?

The Missouri Belle: the riverboat casino opens at the end of season two, and in the final season Ruth and Rachel wrest it from the Byrdes, buying in under Rachel's name because of Ruth's criminal record.

Which character is a pastor who becomes entangled with the Byrdes and Snells?

Mason Young preached from a boat until he learned the Snells were using his congregation to move drugs; they killed his pregnant wife Grace, and Marty later shoots him after he kidnaps Wendy.

Which actress plays Wendy Byrde?

Laura Linney plays Wendy Byrde and made her television directing debut on the show with a final-season episode; the role brought her three Emmy nominations but no win.

Which streaming service produced and released Ozark?

Netflix released all four seasons; within a year of the first, a bar called Marty Byrde's had opened at the real Lake of the Ozarks, with 'Ruth's Smoked Wings' on the menu.

Who plays the role of Ruth Langmore?

Julia Garner plays Ruth Langmore, who starts out robbing the Byrdes' hotel room and ends up running their casino; the role won her three Emmys.

Which character is Darlene Snell's adopted son?

Zeke Young: Zeke's mother Grace was murdered by the Snells and the baby cut from her body; Darlene raises him as her own on the Snell farm.

Who is the actor that plays Wyatt Langmore?

Charlie Tahan plays Wyatt Langmore, the Langmore whom Ruth hopes will escape to college; instead he marries Darlene Snell and is murdered beside her.

In Ozark's second season, Darlene Snell takes revenge on the cartel by spiking its drug shipment with what?

Fentanyl: Darlene spikes the shipment after the cartel has her crop burned, and when the overdoses are traced to the Snells its gunmen ambush the couple on the road.

Which two writers created Ozark?

Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams created Ozark; Dubuque drew on his youth working at a Lake of the Ozarks resort, and Williams had been his producing partner on earlier films.

In what does Marty Byrde hide the cartel's cash after the Langmores rob his hotel room in Ozark?

Fish coolers: Marty buys two coolers and a fisherman's catfish to hide what is left, then wins back most of the stolen share by warning the Langmores whose money it is.

How was Ozark's 14-episode final season released?

In two halves: seven episodes arrived in January 2022 and seven in April, the first batch ending on Ruth vowing revenge for Wyatt's murder.

Which HBO drama twice beat Ozark to the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy?

Succession won in 2020 and 2022; Ozark was nominated for the top drama prize three times and never took it, its 45 Emmy nominations yielding wins only for acting and directing.

In which suburb do the Byrdes live before moving to the Ozarks?

Naperville: in season three Wendy lets herself into the family's old house there with a hidden key and wrecks the place.

What does Ben do at a Byrde fundraiser in Ozark's third season that gets him committed to a state hospital?

Punches Marty: Ben lashes out at the charity launch and is committed, until Ruth, with Darlene Snell's help, gets him released, the step that seals his fate.

Which episodes of season one did Jason Bateman end up directing?

The first two and last two: Bateman directed episodes one, two, nine and ten of season one, having originally planned to direct the whole season before prep time ran short.

Which two experts did Ozark's writers consult to make the money laundering realistic?

An FBI agent and a hedge-fund manager both sat in with the writers: the agent worked financial crimes, and the manager answered questions on how to move large sums of money.

Which rapper is Ruth listening to while hunting Wyatt's killer in Ozark's final season?

Nas: Ruth has his debut album Illmatic in her headphones on the trip, and when she stops to eat, rapper Killer Mike, appearing as himself, asks what she is listening to.

The four hand-drawn symbols in Ozark's title card are each shaped to suggest what?

The letters Z, A, R, K: set inside the big O they spell out the title, so in the pilot a kneeling man forms the Z and a falling body the K.

Which two lakes stand in for the Lake of the Ozarks on screen?

Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier stand in for the Missouri lake; generous state film tax breaks lured the production away from Missouri.

Sugarwood, the title of Ozark's first episode, is whose nickname?

Wendy's lover is the Sugarwood of the title, and he does not outlive the episode: when Wendy tries to run with the family's money, the cartel has him killed as a warning.

How does cartel boss Omar Navarro die in Ozark's final episode?

Shot during a prison transfer: the driver pulls over on an empty road, kills the other guard and lets Navarro out, then shoots him dead as he steps from the car.

Which colour dominates Ozark's distinctive colour grading?

Blue hues wash over almost every frame; from season three the look was opened up, with softer shadows, as the story moved into the casino.

Mashable said the women of Ozark's second season rivalled the ensemble complexity of which HBO drama?

The Sopranos was Alison Foreman's yardstick: crime dramas, she argued, mostly reduce women to wives, mothers and victims, while this season championed female stories in all ten episodes.

The Guardian's review of Ozark's final season said the Byrdes could teach which Shakespearean figure a thing or two?

Lady Macbeth: the review opens with the Byrdes scrubbing a murdered colleague's remains from their clothes 'like a pair of Lady Macbeths', then argues Wendy's body count outdoes hers.

Which two politicians' campaigns had Wendy Byrde worked on before the events of Ozark?

Barack Obama and Bobby Rush: a flashback reveals Wendy worked on Rush's early congressional races and Obama's Illinois Senate campaigns, then struggled to get back into work after having children.

With which lawyer was Wendy Byrde having an affair when Ozark begins?

Gary Silverberg advises Wendy to empty the accounts and run; the cartel answers by killing him, and his body hits the pavement in front of Marty.

Which university accepts Wyatt Langmore in season two?

University of Missouri: Marty gets Wyatt's expulsion from school overturned to keep his place within reach, and the acceptance arrives, but Wyatt never enrols.

What false story does Wendy spread publicly about her brother after his death?

That he was a missing drug addict: Wendy tells a press conference her brother vanished after years of addiction, winning sympathy for her treatment centres, though their father says he never had a drug problem.

In Ozark's third season, Ben loses his temper and hurls a pile of phones into what?

A woodchipper: furious at what is being passed from phone to phone, Ben feeds every handset into the machine, then attacks the workman running it.

In Ozark, which rock band plays the Byrdes' riverboat casino in season three?

REO Speedwagon: singer Kevin Cronin appears as himself, the episode is called 'Kevin Cronin Was Here', and Marty uses the band's gig to work out a new way of washing cartel cash.

Where in the Blue Cat had Marty hidden the cartel cash its owner stole?

Inside the walls: Marty and his family wrapped the cartel's $50 million and sealed it in the lodge's walls, until its owner broke one open, filled a bag and drove off.

From which city does Rachel return in season four to help Ruth buy the casino?

Miami: Ruth tracks Rachel down in Miami and brings her back to the lake to front the casino deal, since Ruth's own record bars her from the licence.

With which Langmore brother does FBI agent Roy Petty have a sexual relationship in season one?

Russ is seduced, then betrayed and blackmailed by Petty into becoming an informant.

What insult does Del utter that gets him shot by Darlene?

Calling the Snells 'rednecks': the deal is already agreed when Del mutters the word, and Darlene shoots him in the head on the spot, leaving Marty to answer to the cartel.

Which loyal Snell servant does Jacob kill to appease the cartel after Del's death?

Ash: when the cartel's lawyer demands 'reparations' for Del, Darlene refuses to pay in cash, so Jacob settles the debt himself with the life of the man she treats like a son.

Why does Wyatt propose to Darlene?

To keep her baby out of foster care: when Wendy sets social services on Darlene, Wyatt, who had been about to leave her, proposes instead so that the boy can stay.

Why does Wyatt skip college in season two?

He learns Ruth killed his father: after Ruth confesses she was behind Russ's death, Wyatt abandons his college plans and moves in with Darlene instead.

Where does Navarro have Helen Pierce killed at the end of season three?

At his estate in Mexico: Navarro summons Helen and the Byrdes, has her shot in the head the moment they arrive, and tells the stunned couple it is the start of working more closely together.

What job had Ben Davis just been fired from when he arrives in the Ozarks?

Substitute teacher: Ben had just been fired as a substitute teacher for destroying his students' phones in a fit of rage, and arrives at the lake with nowhere else to go.

Which teenager does Ben tell about the cartel, sealing his fate?

Erin Pierce: Ben, off his medication, tells the teenage Erin what her mother really does for a living, which makes the cartel see him as a liability.

Which two people preceded Maya Miller as tenants in the Byrde home?

Buddy and Ben: Buddy sold the Byrdes his lake house but stayed on in the basement, Ben turned up for a long visit in season three, and Maya stops in only until her meeting with Navarro.

Why does Maya Miller renege on her deal with Navarro?

The FBI won't stop the cartel: her bosses want Navarro to stay on as boss and feed them intelligence, so a furious Maya has local police arrest him before he can fly home.

What is Marty Byrde's profession before the move to the Ozarks?

Financial advisor: Marty is a financial planner whose small firm quietly launders cartel money, and his skill at moving cash is what keeps him alive.

Why does private investigator Mel Sattem first come looking for Helen Pierce?

To get divorce papers signed: Helen's estranged husband hired Mel to get her signature on the divorce papers, and her disappearance turns his errand into a murder inquiry.

Which city was Buddy Dieker originally from?

Detroit: Buddy came to the lake from Detroit after a career as a union man there, and his old labor contacts prove useful when the casino project needs union backing.

What does Ben do to a mobster's car after Ruth is roughed up in Ozark's third season?

Covers it in birdseed: after the mobster's men lock Ruth in the back of a truck and drive off with her, Ben spreads seed over his car and a flock of birds descends on it.

Which sheriff, indebted to the Snells, is killed by Javi in season four?

John Nix: the sheriff calls at the empty house of the cartel's missing lawyer while looking into her disappearance, finds Javi staying there and is shot, and the Byrdes are left to dispose of his body.

Which business does Ruth hire Sam Dermody to manage after leaving the Byrdes?

The Lazy-O Motel: after Ruth buys the Lazy-O, she hires Sam to run it, Wendy having banned him from the Byrdes' casino over his gambling.

Which condition does Ben stop taking medication for in Ozark's third season?

Bipolar disorder: Ben comes off his medication after falling for Ruth, and the spiral that follows gets him committed to a state hospital and then hunted by the cartel.

Which strip-club owner did the Snells have killed in season one?

Bobby Dean: he had been laundering the Snells' money through the club, so once Marty forced him to sell it they killed him and floated his body to the Byrdes' dock as a warning.

Where do the Snells hide their product to move it through a floating church?

In the hymnals: the Snells stash their drugs inside the hymnals handed out at the boat church, and the pastor shuts down his services when he finds out.

Which mobster does Darlene shoot in the genitals after making him apologise to Ruth?

Frank Cosgrove Jr.: he had beaten Ruth so badly she was hospitalised, and when Marty refused to have him killed, Darlene took revenge herself to win Ruth over.

Which rival cartel ambushes the Kansas City mob's truck in season three?

The Lagunas cartel: Navarro's rivals shoot the mob crew and blow up the truck during a cash drop, and Marty later hands the FBI photos of the attack to bring US forces down on them.

Which union did the Kansas City mob boss once represent in Michigan?

United Auto Workers: the boss was a UAW man before the mob moved in on Missouri's casinos, so when Marty's casino bill wobbles he has to promise that the riverboat will be unionised.

Which therapist of the Byrdes is killed on the cartel's orders?

Sue Shelby: after Marty and Wendy blurt out their cartel secrets in a session, the cartel's lawyer decides she knows too much and sends a killer posing as a new patient.

In which state did Wendy Byrde grow up?

North Carolina: Wendy long ago left her hard-drinking, churchgoing father there, and in the final season he tries to take her children back to it.

Which developmentally disabled Blue Cat employee becomes Jonah's first Ozarks friend?

Tuck: he works part-time at the lodge, and when Jonah spots a cartel man shadowing the family he gets Tuck to buy him a rifle.

Which pharmaceutical CEO agrees to buy the cartel's product as raw material in season four?

Clare Shaw: her family's drug company cuts its costs by taking the cartel's supply as raw material, and in exchange she bankrolls the Byrdes' new charity.

Which actor plays Wendy's estranged, alcoholic father Nathan?

Richard Thomas, John-Boy in The Waltons, plays Nathan, who arrives hunting for his missing son and ends up taking Wendy to court for custody of her children.

Who is Camila Elizondro?

Navarro's sister and Javi's mother: Camila, played by Veronica Falcón, is Omar Navarro's sister and Javi's mother, and she ends the series in control of the cartel.

What does Darlene Snell do to Jonah as a warning that she wants the Byrdes' foster baby?

Shaves his head: Darlene takes Jonah and crops his hair to show how easily she can reach the family, and Marty hands the baby over rather than risk a war.

After her children choose to live with her father, where does Wendy check herself in?

A psychiatric hospital: Wendy admits herself after her father turns down $2 million to leave without the children, and when they visit her there they decide to come home.

Where did Marty initially plan to flee with the family in season two?

The Gold Coast of Australia: Marty plans the escape without telling Wendy and lines Ruth up to run the cartel's business, but Wendy decides the family is safer staying put.

In the Ozark finale, Mel Sattem finds Ben's ashes hidden inside what?

A cookie jar: Mel works out where the ashes are, breaks into the Byrde house to take the jar, and tells the family there is enough DNA left in it to convict them.

With what does Mason threaten to stab Wendy before Marty shoots him?

A screwdriver: Wendy stabs Mason with it while he holds Marty at gunpoint, he turns it on her, and Marty grabs the gun and shoots him in the neck.

Why does Navarro have Marty kidnapped in season three?

To test if the others can launder without him: while Marty is held in a cell at Navarro's home, Wendy, Helen and Ruth keep the money moving, until a frozen account sends Navarro to him for help.

Ozark's final season opens with a flash-forward to which event?

The Byrde family's car crash: the minivan swerves to avoid a truck and rolls over in the opening scene, and the finale returns to the moment to show all four Byrdes surviving it.

Which retired senator joins the Byrde Foundation's board in season four?

Randall Schafer: the retired senator, once Wendy's political opponent, takes the seat only after she gets him an FBI file showing his grandson is not under investigation.

What final assignment does Navarro give the Byrdes in Ozark?

Broker his immunity deal with the FBI: fearing his impatient nephew will move against him, Navarro asks the Byrdes to arrange a retirement free from prosecution.

What does Marty convince Navarro to give the FBI, making his nephew hunt for a mole?

Javi's weapons shipments: Marty overhears Javi planning a gun sale and persuades Navarro that letting the FBI intercept it will prove his worth, and Javi then spots an FBI agent on the raid footage.

Where does Ruth bury the cartel hitman who is shot at her trailer in Ozark's final season?

Under her new swimming pool: Rachel shoots the gunman from the trailer roof after a warning call from Ruth, who buries him in the pit dug for the pool before the workmen arrive.

Which outburst gets Marty Byrde arrested in Ozark's final season?

A road-rage beating: seething at Wendy for making cartel decisions without him, Marty beats another motorist on the drive home, and the children have to post bail for both parents.

Which Arrested Development character did Jason Bateman play before Ozark?

Michael Bluth: Bateman, a child star of 1980s sitcoms, found fame again in 2003 as the one level-headed son of the Bluth family, a role that won him a Golden Globe.

Which Showtime series earned Laura Linney her fourth Emmy in 2013?

The Big C: its final season ran as a four-part miniseries called Hereafter, which is why Linney's fourth Emmy came in the Miniseries or Movie category.

Julia Garner played a notorious fake heiress in which 2022 miniseries?

Inventing Anna: Garner played Anna Delvey, who posed as a German heiress to scam banks, businesses and friends, in a series built on the magazine exposé of her rise and fall.

Sofia Hublitz first appeared on TV as a contestant on which show?

MasterChef Junior: Hublitz was a contestant on the show's first season in 2013, where the cameras caught her in tears over a kitchen mistake, four years before Ozark began.

Skylar Gaertner played the young version of which Marvel hero in 2015?

Matt Murdock: Gaertner plays the boy in Daredevil's flashbacks, when the accident that blinds him leaves him with the heightened senses he later fights crime with.

Janet McTeer won a Tony and an Olivier in 1997 for which play?

A Doll's House: McTeer's Nora won the Olivier for the London staging, and when the production transferred to Broadway it brought her the Tony too.

Peter Mullan won the Golden Lion at Venice for directing which 2002 film?

The Magdalene Sisters: Mullan built his drama about Ireland's Magdalene laundries on survivors' testimony from the documentary Sex in a Cold Climate, and it took Venice's top prize.

Which two soap operas gave Tom Pelphrey his early fame before Ozark?

Guiding Light and As the World Turns: Pelphrey won two Daytime Emmys as antihero Jonathan Randall, was back for Guiding Light's last episode in 2009, then moved straight to As the World Turns.

Which festival premiered Jordana Spiro's directorial debut Night Comes On in 2018?

Sundance: Spiro wrote the film with Angelica Nwandu, drawing on Nwandu's own years in foster care, after the pair developed it at the Sundance Institute's screenwriters lab.

Which actor plays private investigator Mel Sattem?

Adam Rothenberg plays Mel Sattem, the private investigator who pursues the Byrdes through the final season and is the last person Jonah confronts in the finale.

During which family occasion do rival gunmen massacre Omar Navarro's guests in season three?

His son's baptism: gunmen storm the church and shoot down the guests, and the attack on his family pushes Navarro to back Marty's plan to turn US forces on his rivals.

Which 2016 Ben Affleck thriller was written by one of Ozark's creators?

The Accountant: a producer pitched its writer, then a corporate headhunter, a thriller about a forensic accountant, and he made the hero autistic; the two men later created Ozark together.

Which waterway is impounded to form the Lake of the Ozarks?

The Osage River: Bagnell Dam holds back the Osage for more than 90 miles and floods tributaries such as the Niangua, which is why the lake sprawls in so many arms.

Roughly how many miles of shoreline does the Lake of the Ozarks have?

1,150: the flooded river valley twists so much that the lake packs about 1,150 miles of shoreline into a body only some 90 miles long from end to end.

What does Navarro order the Byrdes to buy for him in Kentucky in season three?

A horse farm: the Byrdes buy it on Navarro's orders, and his men then geld the prize stallion of his cartel rival, one more blow in the war between them.

Charlie Tahan played the young Scarecrow in which DC series?

Gotham: Tahan played the teenage Jonathan Crane in season one and came back in season four as the character became the Scarecrow, before David W. Thompson took over the role.

Alfonso Herrera sang in which Mexican pop group spun off from a hit teen telenovela?

RBD: Herrera was one of the six singers the telenovela Rebelde launched, but when the band reunited for its 2023 tour he was the only member who stayed away.

Adam Rothenberg is best known for playing Captain Homer Jackson in which BBC series?

Ripper Street: Rothenberg played the American army surgeon in the Whitechapel police drama, which the BBC cancelled after two series before Amazon stepped in to fund three more.

Damian Young played bus driver Stu Benedict on which 1990s Nickelodeon show?

The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Young's Stu Benedict was so heartbroken over fellow driver Sally Knorp that he drove his busload of kids in endless loops past the scenes of their romance.

Ozark's Katrina Lenk won a Tony for originating Dina in which musical?

The Band's Visit: Lenk won the 2018 Tony as café owner Dina, then took the lead in a Broadway Company that turned Sondheim's bachelor Bobby into a woman, Bobbie.

Ozark's Joseph Sikora is best known as Tommy Egan on which Starz series?

Power's Tommy Egan made Sikora's name; the Chicago-born actor joined Ozark in its third season and went on to headline the spin-off Power Book IV: Force.

How does the Kansas City mob boss warn Marty after the casino is approved as a non-union site?

Blows up his office: Marty had promised the mob a unionised casino, then agreed to a non-union site to win over the gaming commission, and the blast is the boss's order to fix it.

Who built Bagnell Dam, creating the Lake of the Ozarks, between 1929 and 1931?

Union Electric, the St. Louis utility now called Ameren, built the dam simply to generate power, and the lake behind it quickly became a holiday destination instead.