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  • ‘Ozark’ final season debuts at No. 1 on Netflix

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Netflix’s show ‘Ozark’ Season 4, Part 1, is drawing more viewers than any other TV series in its debut week on the streamer.

    The first half of the final season of the Jason Bateman-led drama landed at No. 1 on Netflix’s English-language TV Top 10 list for the week of January 17-23, with 77 million hours viewed in just its first three days.

    Coming in second place was “The Boys” executive producer Rebecca Sonnenshine’s horror series ‘Archive 81’, which racked up 71 million hours viewed in its second week after launch, an impressive rise after debuting at No. 7 on the list last week, reports variety.com.

    Also making return appearances on the English-language TV Top 10 were ‘Stay Close’, ‘Cobra Kai’ Season 4, ‘The Witcher’ Season 2, ‘Manifest’ Season 1, ‘Cheer’ Season 2 and ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 2.

    Newbies for the week were the third season of ‘Too Hot to Handle’, which came in third place with 41 million hours viewed, and the first season of ‘Ozark’.

    On the non-English Top 10 list, the Colombian love story ‘Cafe con Aroma de Mujer’ was atop the list for the third consecutive week in a row with 96 million hours. The fourth season of “El marginal” was in a distant second with 22 million hours.

    In the film categories, ‘The Royal Treatment’ launched at No. 1 on the English-language Top 10 with 42 million hours watched in its first four days. ‘Brazen’, the romantic thriller based on the novel of the same name by Nora Roberts, was in silver with 28.6 million hours.

    The Polish flick ‘How I Fell in Love With a Gangster’ was once again at the top of the non-English language film ranks with 8.7 million hours viewed. In the No. 2 slot was “Photocopier” with 6.9 million hours viewed.

  • Veronica Falcon, Ali Stroker board ‘Ozark’ Season 4

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actors Veronica Falcon and Ali Stroker have joined the cast for the fourth and final season of Netflix’s acclaimed drama series “Ozark”.

    Featuring Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner in the lead, the final season of the Emmy-winning series will be split into two parts, consisting of seven episodes each.

    “Ozark” follows Marty (Bateman) and Wendy Byrde (Linney), who relocates their family from the Chicago suburb of Naperville to the summer resort community of Osage Beach, Missouri and get involved in the local criminal activities of the new town.

    The new installment of the series will mark the final chapter in the Byrde family’s journey from suburban Chicago life to their criminal enterprise in the Ozarks.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Falcon will recur as Camila, the sister of drug cartel leader Omar Navarro (Felix Solis) whose son Javi Elizonndro (Alfonso Herrera) is scheming to take over his uncle’s cartel.

    Stroker also has a recurring role in the final season.

    She will play Charles-Ann, an old friend of Ruth’s (Garner) mother “who lends her a hand when she is in need of some assistance”.

    Created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams, “Ozark” also features Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Charlie Tahan, Jessica Frances Dukes, Lisa Emery, John Bedford Lloyd, and Joseph Sikora.

    Chris Mundy returns as showrunner, writer and executive producer for the final season.