Ozark explained: were marty and wendy byrde supposed to get divorced?

Ozark season four will be the last outing for Marty (played by Jason Bateman) and Wendy Byrde (Laura Linney). The married couple have had a lot to deal with from being forced to leave their

hometown of Chicago and threatened by cartel lieutenant Camino "Del" Del Rio (Esai Morales) to laundering money for the cartel in the Ozarks, Missouri. However, were the couple

supposed to be getting divorced before the cartel showed up in their lives? WERE MARTY AND WENDY BYRDE SUPPOSED TO GET DIVORCED? _WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FROM ALL

SEASONS OF OZARK_ The couple’s relationship was already faltering with viewers first met Marty and Wendy in season one with the couple distant. Wendy had been having an affair with Gary

“Sugarwood” Silverberg (Bruce Altman), which Marty found out about. The Chicago financier had his suspicions and sent a private investigator to keep tabs on Wendy, leading him to uncover his

wife’s infidelity as unsavoury footage emerged of her having sex with her lover. Wendy was even planning to take the children and leave Marty such was her unhappiness in their marriage.

READ MORE: OZARK CANCELLED: WHY HAS OZARK BEEN CANCELLED? However, the arrival of Del put a stop to all of this and she was forced to keep the family together to save their lives. Marty and

Wendy then took their children to Missouri, where they set up shop cleaning the cartel’s money, but their unhappy union continued. Season two showed their continued dissonance with the pair

making decisions without consulting each other and leading to mix-ups. Marty also made plans to escape the Ozarks but Wendy later backtracked on this. She made a deal with lawyer Helen

Pierce (Janet McTeer) which saw the family firmly entrenched in the services of the cartel. READ MORE: OZARK SEASON 3: HOW MANY SEASONS WILL THERE BE OF OZARK? While Marty and Wendy stayed

together, there was clearly a frisson between the former lobbyist and local businessman Charles Wilkes (Darren Goldstein) whom she was trying to win over and get the riverboat casino deal

pushed through. Charles and Wendy grew close and he even asked her to leave Marty and be with him, an offer she reluctantly turned down. Marty seemed to have some simmering chemistry with

Rachel Garrison (Jordana Spiro), but nothing came of it. The married couple even temporarily decided to separate with Marty moving into a hotel, leaving their children reeling in shock with

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[EXPLAINER] Ozark season 4: Who will replace Helen Pierce in the new series? [ANALYSIS] Ozark season 4: Is FBI agent Maya Miller faking her pregnancy? [THEORY] Season three saw the couple

trying to work things out and attending marriage counselling following Wendy’s duplicitous dealings with the cartel. But they were clearly going in different directions after both Marty and

Wendy separately started bribing their therapist Sue Shelby (Marylouise Burke) to agree with them. When the truth came out, they had an explosive row and were again at odds. Only when

tragedy struck, after Wendy ordered the execution of her brother Ben Davis (Tom Pelphrey), did the couple come back together. READ MORE: OZARK SEASON 4 RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT:

WHEN IS SERIES OUT? From the looks of it, both Marty and Wendy appeared unhappy in their marriage from the start of Ozark and would most likely have split if the cartel hadn’t come into

their lives. Fans will have to wait and see where the couple go next in season four, which will be the last series of the crime drama. But from the looks of it, things are not going to well

for the couple given their already fraught relationship. _OZARK SEASONS 1 TO 3 ARE STREAMING ON NETFLIX NOW_