The tagline for the first season of Netflix’s Bloodline was, “We’re not bad people. But we did a bad thing.” Well this second season argues that maybe the Rayburns are bad people after all. Maybe they’re kind of the worst.

Meg lets out to Marco in confidence, “The more you know about us, the more horrible we are. We’re not the people that you think we are,” and this season works its hardest to prove that point. It’s a little ridiculous the amount of times that the Rayburns are breaking the law this season or asking others to break the law for them. This could be a commentary on how one bad situation can beget an avalanche of more, or, y’know, the Rayburns might just be some entitled people that sort of suck.

This season begins with an appropriate amount on its plate, still reeling from Danny’s murder at the hands of his siblings, not to mention the arrival of his son, Nolan, in last year’s finale. Nolan does a good job at keeping the spirit of Danny present within the show (it seriously feels like he’s channeling his father at times), with his initial purpose seeming to just be to poke holes in the Rayburn family’s bond. Nolan quickly settles into his role within the show, but I would have preferred if the season played up the mystery angle with him a little more, introducing more fresh problems to the table rather than spending so much time in the past.

But I guess that’s what this show is all about; the past is never really buried. It also becomes a little exhausting at times to see the Rayburns continually digging deeper graves for themselves with each episode. This season feels like they never make a good decision, and honestly, I need a little more of these guys getting a win every now and again.

One of the aspects of this season that I particularly enjoyed was seeing Kevin almost absorb Danny’s role of the black sheep in the family, now that he’s gone. Kevin is screwing up at every turn and goes down a tragic path this year, but it also opens up the interesting idea that someone is always going to be the “Danny” in the family. If Kevin were to drop out of the picture, I have no doubt that Meg would be the next one to start buckling under the weight of things. This season might throw a lot at the viewer, but the material that explores whether Danny ever really had a chance or was progressively forced into the role that he ended up filling are by far the most interesting.