Ozark Season 4, Part 2 Recap: Best And Worst Moments From Final Episodes

Warning: The following story contains gigantic spoilers from Ozark's final seven episodes — proceed at your own peril.

Did the Byrdes pass their final cartel test with flying colors? Or did they finally come up on the short end of the karma stick? And what about Ruth? Was our favorite potty-mouthed heroine alive and well by the end of the series finale?

The good news: All of these questions were answered sans ambiguity in Ozark Season 4, Part 2, which dropped Friday. Whether you were pleased with the answers provided by the Netflix thriller's final seven episodes ever, well, that's another matter entirely.

One thing we can all agree on is that co-star Alfonso Herrera was not kidding when he recently warned TVLine readers that "the places where Part 2 is going to take us is just unimaginable," adding, "I remember going through the scripts for Episode 7 [through 14], and it's just mind-blowing." (Curiously, Herrera also predicted that Ozark fans will "be happy" with the show's conclusion And maybe he'll be right!)

Scroll down for quick, easy-breezy summaries of the final seven episodes, along with our quick-take on each installment's best and worst moments. And then, of course, hit the comments to share your own snappy judgement on Ozark's last hurrah.

THE GIST: Ruth kills Javi, avenging Wyatt's death in the process.

HIGHLIGHT: Ruth's spot-on analysis of narcissistic hypocrite Wendy in the episode's final scene was satisfying beyond measure — so much so that I'm dropping the transcript here for posterity: "Wendy? She's f—king soulless. She will rip your heart out of your chest if it helps her get what she wants. She's like a f—king predator that doesn't even know why it's killin' anymore."

LOWLIGHT: The flashbacks to Ruth's torturous childhood — combined with present-day Ruth's tedious Windy City cat-and-mouse game with Marty and Wendy — padded this hour to within an inch of its life, squandering much of the momentum coming out of that blockbuster midseason finale and rendering Javi's actual execution at the hands of Ruth in the episode's closing seconds wholly anticlimactic.

THE GIST: The Byrdes miraculously find a solution to yet another worst case scenario (the latest one being Javi's death) and on a Preposterous Scale of 1-10 it lands at an 11.5. (Marty's gonna go to Mexico and assume leadership of the cartel!)

HIGHLIGHT: Agent Miller flatly rejecting Marty's desperate plea for help on the grounds that "you're just another criminal to me now" was the sickest of burns.

LOWLIGHT: A spineless Charlotte apologizes to her mother for leading Ruth directly to Javi, claiming, "I wasn't thinking." No, actually, for once you were.

THE GIST: Marty seamlessly transitions into his second career as a drug kingpin; in his first week on the job, he finds, tortures and murders the dude who ordered the hit on Navarro. (Or so he thinks!)

HIGHLIGHT: Devoting the cold open to showing us, via flashback, what happened during Ben's final hours was a cool surprise.

LOWLIGHT: Wendy sinks to a new low (and that's saying something, kids!) when she helps pass out flyers for her "missing" brother she had murdered in cold blood.

THE GIST: Marty and Wendy finally do the basic math and realize Navarro's sister, Camila, put the hit out on Navarro (meaning, yep, Marty murdered the wrong dude). Meanwhile, Marty and Wendy's long-simmering hatred for one another spills over into an insane road rage incident.

HIGHLIGHT: Ruth luring a now clean and sober Rachel Garrison (Jordana Spiro, reprising her fantastic Season 1 and 2 role) back from Miami to help her take the Belle legit was a shrewd full-circle twist.

LOWLIGHT: Private eye Mel Sattem is finally closing in on the Byrdes, but it's a waste of (our) time because we all know Marty and Wendy will eventually run him out of town or have him killed.

THE GIST: Wendy's sauced-up dad learns that she was behind her brother's death and, as a result, sets out to take his grandkids away from her, permanently. This leads Wendy to finally crack (figuratively and literally; see photo, above).

HIGHLIGHT: Newly-minted millionaire Ruth gets her criminal record wiped clean, clearing the way for her and Rachel to move forward with their hostile takeover of the Belle. Love to see it!

LOWLIGHT: Unsurprisingly, there's zero fallout from the aforementioned road rage incident, despite the fact that Marty and Wendy basically committed attempted murder in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses brandishing camera phones.

THE GIST: Wendy and Marty concoct a new exit strategy that involves shifting their allegiance from Navarro to Camila. Also, Wendy finally does the basic math and realizes she's insane.

HIGHLIGHT: Wendy attempts to check herself into the local psychiatric hospital on the grounds that "my current situation, as I see it, is that I am not well, mentally." When that proves unsuccessful, she returns a few days later and demands entry or else "I'm going to kill my father." Turns out a self-aware Wendy is the best kind of Wendy.

LOWLIGHT: It makes sense that the rebellious Jonah would consider fleeing to North Carolina with gramps. But making us think Charlotte would willingly tag along does not pass the smell test.

THE GIST: The bad guys win. Camila murders Ruth after learning she was the one who killed her son. And Marty and Wendy manage to clear one final hurdle when Jonah of all people saves the day and whacks Mel in the finale's closing seconds, as his parents look on with pride. Hate to see it!

HIGHLIGHT: Wendy at long last uttering these six glorious words: "It's my fault. All of it."

LOWLIGHT: The much-ballyhooed flash-forward car accident turns out to be the lowest form of red herring.

SUPER-LOWLIGHT: Ruth getting killed instead of Marty and/or Wendy.