My top 2 Series

Ozark 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.^[21] Jason Bateman was originally meant to be the sole director for the first season, but because the schedule did not enable him to have enough preparation time, he directed only the first two and last two episodes.^[22]

To make Ozark as realistic and sensible as possible for depicting money laundering, the writers for the series brought an FBI agent who works on financial crimes into the writers’ room. They also brought in a hedge-fund manager, for information about moving large sums of money. Beam Solutions, a financial-compliance software company, considered the series’ accuracy to be “both plausible and very creative.”^[23]

The series was renewed for a 10-episode second season on August 15, 2017.^[24] On October 10, 2018, the series was renewed for a 10-episode third season.^[11] On June 30, 2020, Netflix renewed the series for its fourth and final season, which consists of 14 episodes split into two parts.^[13] The first part of the fourth and final season was released on January 21, 2022.^[14] The second part of the final season premiered on April 29, 2022.^[15]

HTGAWM

Annalise Keating (Oscar- and Tony-winning actress Viola Davis), a brilliant, charismatic and seductive professor of defense law, teaches a class called How to Get Away With Murder. Annalise, also a criminal defense attorney, selects a group of students — the best and the brightest — to assist with cases at her firm alongside her employees, the trustworthy and discreet Frank Delfino (Charlie Weber) and Bonnie Winterbottom (“Gilmore Girls” alum Liza Weil), an associate attorney. Mysteries arise that test everyone’s limits and reveal dark truths.