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Darlene Snell is the secondary antagonist of the Netflix series Ozark, serving as one of the two secondary antagonists of Season 1 (alongside her husband Jacob Snell), one of the two main antagonists of Season 2, the secondary antagonist of Season 3, the central antagonist of first half and the posthumous overarching antagonist of the second half of Season 4.
She was portrayed by Lisa Emery.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- She and her husband ran a heroin distribution ring in Ozark for years. Their organization also ran loansharking and rackeetering business.
- Although she seems to be religious by quoting Bible verses in several occasions, she does this as excuse for her violent deeds and sometimes calling her victims as 'sinners'.
- She's also a racist who justified Hitler's rise of power as a grand achievement and made derogatory comments about Mexicans.
- She stabbed Bobby Dean with a heroin-filled syringe, causing him to die from overdose.
- She and her husband used Mason Young's Lake Chruch to distribute heroin across town by smuggling them inside the Bible.
- She and her husband also threatens to cut the baby from Mason's pregnant wife if he continues to construction of his new church.
- She killed Mason's wife, Grace Young by cutting out the baby out of her belly and leave the baby near Grace's dead body as a warning for Mason. This provokes Mason into an unstable mental state, becomes homeless and even kidnaps Wendy Byrde to force Marty to return his baby.
- She killed Del Rio by blasting his head with a shotgun after being called a redneck and even Jacob was astonished with his wife's unnecessary violent act.
- In a result of her killing Del Rio who was a high-ranking captain of the Navarro Cartel, the cartel ordered the Snells to kill one of their men as a payback.
- She poisoned the heroin supply for the cartel by mixing them with fentanyl, overdosing the users and eventually killing them.
- She then killed Jacob by spiking his coffee with cyanide after realizing that he decided to cooperate with Marty and Helen behind her back.
- She asked Marty to gave Zeke for her to take care while in reality, she uses Zeke as an insurance policy if their business with the Byrdes didn't go as planned.
- She groomed Wyatt Langmore and manipulated him to work at his heroin distribution business.
- She shot Frank Cosgrove Jr.'s penis for assaulting Ruth Langmore. While Cosgrove Jr. deserved this, she does this for pragmatic reasons to gain Ruth's trust and to manipulate her to her side.
- She decided to negotiate a deal with Cosgrove Jr. to sell heroin in Kansas City Mafia's turf without Cosgrove Sr.'s approval, causing Cosgrove Jr. to betray his own father.
- When Cosgrove Sr. discovered their plan, she killed him by shooting him in a point blank range with a shotgun.
What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Although some people thinks that she groomed Wyatt Langmore, she did show some love and affection towards him and even asked him to marry her before leaving everything behind.
- She cared about Zeke, despite helding him as an insurance policy for the Byrdes, possibly due to her infertility and inability to have kids.
