Ben’s ‘Ozark’ Storyline “Plays Out the Only Way That It Can,” Tom Pelphrey Says

Jan. 22 2022, Published 12:33 p.m. ET

Wendy’s remedy of her brother, Ben, at the finish of Ozark’s third season will certainly cast an extended shadow in the Netflix drama’s fourth season, which is now streaming. So who was Ben on Ozark? We’ve got a refresher below, however new fans beware: Ozark Season 3 spoilers forward!

Viewers met Ben at the beginning of Season 3. After getting fired as an alternative instructor, Ben visits sister Wendy (Laura Linney) and her husband, Marty (Jason Bateman), and he starts courting their affiliate, Ruth (Julia Garner).

Ben’s bipolar drugs disrupts his sex life, despite the fact that, so he stops taking the meds. And he soon turns into a problem, especially when he exposes Wendy and Marty’s colleague Helen (Janet McTeer) as a cartel lawyer to her daughter.

Wendy tries taking Ben to safety, however after knowing he’s an excessive amount of of a legal responsibility, she leaves him at a cafe. And as Wendy tearfully calls Marty from the facet of the street, we see Nelson (Nelson Bonilla), Helen’s enforcer, arriving on the eating place to kill her brother.

‘Ozark’ actor Tom Pelphrey observed there’s “this nearly childlike simplicity” to Ben.

“At his core, one thing that I in point of fact liked about Ben was that in some way he was extremely simple,” Tom told Entertainment Weekly in July 2020. “I believe he was slightly innocent and simply in reality all in on loving his circle of relatives, his niece and his nephew, and clearly, how he felt about Ruth. There was this almost childlike simplicity with the way that he saw sure issues. That’s numerous fun to play, and it’s so much a laugh to get permission to be that personality in a way this is sort of black and white.”

He additionally mentioned he cried when he realized about his character’s fate. “I wasn’t even crying in the sense of Tom the actor, it was similar to, ‘Oh my God, in fact that is how this could finish,’ and yet, ‘Oh, Jesus, don’t let it finish this manner.’ Which is this sort of compliment to the writing, where it’s this horribly not possible situation and it roughly performs out the one method that it will possibly. It’s just great tragedy.”

Fans say it’s “outrageous” and “pathetic” that Tom didn’t get an Emmy nomination.

As the Daily Express covered in July 2020, Ozark lovers took their frustration to Twitter when the display’s Emmy Award nominations that year didn’t come with a nod for Tom. (He did, on the other hand, get a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination along side his castmates on the Netflix display.)

“Tom Pelphrey as Ben in Season 3 of Ozark is without doubt one of the most correct portrayals of psychological sickness in tv, and the fact that he didn’t get nominated for an Emmy is outrageous,” one fan tweeted.

Another viewer wrote on Twitter to say, “The incontrovertible fact that Tom Pelphrey didn’t even get nominated for an Emmy for his paintings as Ben Davis is disgusting and pathetic and proves those awards don’t mean s—t.”

A third consumer tweeted. “Tom Pelphrey being snubbed by means of the Emmys for Ozark is a national travesty.”

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