'Black Rabbit' Has an 'Ozark' Problem

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For all the comparisons that Ozark drew to Breaking Bad upon its 2017 release (the “hillbilly Breaking Bad ”), I always felt its structure was closer to Bloodline , the Kyle Chandler series that ran on Netflix from 2015 to 2017. Ozark picked up where Bloodline left off with what I like to call panic-attack television.

It’s not just because Ozark was tense or suspenseful (though it often was). It’s because Ozark , Bloodline , and now Black Rabbit pile on the misery. It’s as if the writers of all three series (Zach Baylin and Katie Susman here) are in a contest to see how many corners they can back their characters into. The stress isn’t inflicted with violence so much as with suffocating co

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