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Michael Mosley as Pastor Mason Young is listed in both in the main and in the recurring cast. Wonder which is correct? - Sarvikuonokas (talk) 15:27, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

By looking through the archive of this article, you can see the information regarding the symbols and their explanations being deleted multiple times by several editors because the information is trivial and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. We don't need to regurgitate the source by explaining in detail what every symbol means, that's what the reference is for. The opening credits section could be expanded a bit more, to give examples, such as exactly how the symbols spell out "Ozark". The separate article that was created, Ozark (TV series) Opening Credit Symbols definitely does not need to exist, because on its own, there's no notability. Drovethrughosts (talk) 13:31, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Has anyone noticed that there is some similarity between the opening credits in Ozark and the opening credits in the TV series The Wild Wild West. Both used four panels that foreshadowed something of import that happened in that particular episode. I’m a bit late to the show and perhaps this issue has been noted already, but it dawned on me recently. It’s been a long time since I saw an episode of The Wild Wild West, so I guess it took a little while to make the connection. GTGeek88 (talk) 03:49, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can we get a more detailed or technical explanation of how Martin Byrde's money laundering schemes work? I'm currently watching the show, but am still confused by some of the financial details on how he is laundering the money. I read the Wikipedia article for "money laundering" but that didn't help much for explaining specific actions on the show, such as why Byrde needs to inflate construction and maintenance costs. Nicole Sharp (talk) 16:49, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As the show doesn't go into much detail, the article shouldn't go into much detail.

The basic idea seems to be that the massive hoard of cash needs to have a paper trail showing it came from a legitimate source. One way to do that is to inflate the amount of money a business takes in, showing sales that did not happen or over-reporting how much a good or service was sold for. - SummerPhD^v2.0 17:09, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nicole Sharp: I believe Summer has it down. When Marty takes over a business, the books show much more revenue than the business is actually taking in, so the money looks like it's from legitimate transactions. It then has to be spent in ways that continue making it look legitimate, such as buying or "buying" equipment and inventory from other businesses controlled by the cartel. Money launderers also know they have to declare the income and pay the taxes, so the taxes are often factored in as a cost of doing business. The cartel gives over, say $10 million in cash, and expects that maybe $7 or $8 million will come back as "clean" once the taxes are paid.

Does that help?

Billmckern (talk) 19:04, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My interpretation from the Wikipedia article on money laundering is that he needs to inflate how much profit he is making from cash-customer businesses. That makes sense, since the extra "legitimate" business income claimed on taxes is actually coming from the cartel. What doesn't make sense to me is why he would want to inflate expenses as well, since high business costs would mean less taxable income (on paper). If the business costs are just investing in other cartel-controlled businesses (like tiling), then that makes more sense, though it isn't explicitly mentioned on the show, so that's maybe something for Fandom.com instead of Wikipedia. Though perhaps a Wikipedia article on "money laundering in popular culture" could be a better spot. Nicole Sharp (talk) 01:56, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nicole Sharp: in addition to buying or "buying" good and services from cartel-controlled businesses to put the money back in the cartel's coffers, the money launderer can also execute sham transactions to make it look like the profits were spent on good and services from non-cartel businesses, then divert the cash to the cartel. I think there's an episode of Ozark where Marty does that -- creates invoices to make it appear as though the Blue Cat spent money on upgrades like air conditioners (I think) without actually buying them. If anyone looks at the ledgers and invoices, the expenses appear to be legitimate. Only by inspecting each individual room and finding no air conditioners could the transaction be exposed as a sham.

Billmckern (talk) 10:27, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]