So it could feasibly reach five seasons, or possibly even seven, without becoming illogically cartoonish in terms of its plotlines.
(Although I’d lo-o-ove to watch a fifth Ozark season as crafted by Gotham’s creative team.)
It occasionally stretches the bonds of realism whenever a hectic crime drama centered on “ordinary people” goes on for too many years.
Writers tend to fix that up by keeping a series’ narrative far more limited than the show’s seasonal lifeline, and Ozark has done a solid job on that front.