The streaming giant Netflix announced on Wednesday that they have decided to renew the crime drama series Ozark for a season 3. The web series stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as financial planner Marty Byrde and his wife, Wendy, and their family’s sudden relocation from the suburbs of Chicago to a summer resort community in the Missouri Ozarks as they navigate life within a dangerous drug cartel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The pickup comes after Ozark returned Aug. 31 with its second season. While the freshman run was a breakout among critics — Bateman earned Emmy nominations for lead actor and directing — season two returned with more mixed reviews. THR chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg called the sophomore outing “gloomy, monotonous and poorly focused.”
The show 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. The series was renewed for a 10-episode second season on August 15, 2017The family drama will be back for another cycle of 10 episodes, likely in 2019. Showrunner Chris Mundy will return in the same capacity.
Bateman directed multiple episodes from the first and second season and serves as an executive producer along with Mundy, Dubuque and Williams. Ozark is produced by Bateman’s Aggregate Films in association with Media Rights Capital.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter