Ozark (Netflix)

This is about a family who get caught up with gangsters in money laundering. I've just watched season 1 (10 episodes) and am about to start on season 2. I like these long-running series' as you get to know the characters so well and also get intrigued by the storyline.

This one has some surprises along the way and I am enjoying it. However, I do wish the scriptwriters hadn't used the 'f' word so much. A good tale spoiled by so much use of it. I don't know why the use swearwords is supposedly so acceptable in screenplay these days.

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This is about a family who get caught up with gangsters in money laundering. I've just watched season 1 (10 episodes) and am about to start on season 2. I like these long-running series' as you get to know the characters so well and also get intrigued by the storyline.

This one has some surprises along the way and I am enjoying it. However, I do wish the scriptwriters hadn't used the 'f' word so much. A good tale spoiled by so much use of it. I don't know why the use swearwords is supposedly so acceptable in screenplay these days.

I can't seem to commit myself to American TV Drama/mysteries at all these days, the last I watched and rated very highly was Boardwalk Empire, this I considered to be brilliant in every dept. I only have Freeview and all the new apps that came with my new TV that are (and probably will remain) still un-explored.

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I don't know why the use swearwords is supposedly so acceptable in screenplay these days.

I think that in this case you can substitute the word 'acceptable' with 'mandatory'
I refuse to watch any TV programme where the use of, and inclusion of, the F-word and its derivatives, is purely and wholly unnecessary and un-required adjectival flotsam.

I can get interested in them OK. 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul' are two other examples of long-running American series' that I have been interested in. Both had a degree of bad language in them but not so much as 'Ozark'.

It doesn't stop me watching and being interested in the twists and turns of a long-running series but I find I can't watch them with family present, even though they are all turning 50 now and their own children are adults. They don't seem to mind but I feel uncomfortable with it.

Ah well, no family will be visiting into the foreseeable future, so I can just watch them and tut to myself. :)

I have done that in the past Beastie, but torrent sites are difficult to find these days..
Would appreciate some pointers if you can

That's great Beastie I will certainly try them