In ‘Ozark,’ a financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss. The Netflix series stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.

In this interview, screenwriter and producer Alyson Feltes discusses her role on the series, the Ozarks as a setting, the importance of avoiding television tropes, how intimacy can save a character, and she gives a few details about an upcoming project based on memoirs from Chelsea Clinton.

In addition to this audio format, the print interview for this conversation is available on Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s website.

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