(CNN) The echoes of "Breaking Bad" have grown louder in "Ozark," a Netflix series about a couple descending farther and farther down the rabbit hole into criminality, despite their futile efforts to get clean. While by no means a great show, the intense second season cements its status as an eminently binge-worthy one.

Jason Bateman and Laura Linney are back as Marty and Wendy Byrde, whose unfortunate association with a drug cartel landed them in the Ozarks. But as the bloody, surprising end to the first season indicated, Marty's days as a money manager are giving way to a new career path, one destined to test the agile, angle-playing mind that he'll repeatedly need to talk himself out of one perilous situation after another.

The big idea this time out is to filter all those ill-gotten gains through a casino, seemingly the perfect machine to launder money, and maybe even multiply it.

Alas, that merely brings the Byrdes into contact with a new array of unsavory characters, while fraying their familial bonds, straining alliances and loyalties and inflicting no shortage of collateral damage.

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