How did Ruth...[SPOILERS]

How? Because it's an ultra-feminist show, that's how. No way they're going to depict a woman being graphically tortured and killed here. A man? Yes, of course, several times throughout please, including the lead character, but a delicate perfect woman? Never!

Also, she's a beloved character, arguably the best in the series. Of course it's not realistic that Ruth would have had such a quick, graceful death, but there's no way in hell the show is going to depict what really would have happened to her if the Mexican cartel got their hands on her.

And realistically, there's no way Ruth would have survived as long as she did throughout the show, just carelessly skirting the law and pissing powerful, extremely dangerous people off left and right with virtually no consequences. It's also unrealistic that someone as wealthy and powerful as she is by the end of the series wouldn't have some kind of protection around her.

But whatever, it's a show that exists in its own loopy kind of universe that sort of borders ours, so it's fine. A lot of aspects of this show don't really make sense when you examine them closely. Still a good show, but very uneven at times.

Camilla knew Ruth had a justifiable reason to kill her son. She had to kill Ruth, but there wasn't anything it for her to torture Ruth. Threatening Claire was just that... a threat. She wouldn't have necessarily done anything else to Claire beyond killing her if she found out she lied.

For me, it’s easy to understand why Camilla would want to kill Ruth the first moment that she could.

It’s personal, and she wants to do it herself. Camilla doesn’t have to be the torturing type (even if she might threaten people that way).

In the end, one thing that can be said about Ozark (pun intended), is that it ended in a very Ruthless fashion :).