Netflix’s crime drama ‘Ozark’ is back with an anticipated season 2

“Ozark.”
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• The second season of Netflix’s hit crime drama series
  “Ozark” is now available. 
• The show’s new season has earned more positive reviews
  than its first, which was divisive among critics but had a
  strong following of viewers. 

Netflix’s hit crime drama “Ozark” returned with its
anticipated second season on Friday. 

The series stars Jason Batemen and Laura Linney as the Byrdes, a
married couple who move to the Missouri Ozarks after a money
laundering scheme with a drug cartel goes sideways. 

Critical reaction to the first season of “Ozark” was divided, but
it garnered a strong following among audiences, notably including
rapper Drake, who called the series
one of his favorite shows in an interview last year. 

While the show’s first season earned a 68% critic rating on
Rotten Tomatoes, it got a 92% rating among audience members on
the site.

Most critics are calling the new season of “Ozark” an improvement
on the first, and season two currently stands at a 73% critic
rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Season two follows the Byrdes as they “struggle to balance
their family interests amid the escalating dangers presented by
their partnerships with the power-hungry Snells, the cartel and
their new deputy, Ruth Langmore,” per Netflix’s description. 

“In season two, ‘Ozark’ dramatically quickens its pace, as
if it’s brought a gun to a chess match,” Michael Haigis wrote in
a
review for Slant Magazine. 

“A definite page-turner (we’ll have to come up with a
boxset equivalent term for this, I refuse to use “binge” any
longer) and one that goes to some incredibly dark places you
might have thought impossible for two characters named Marty and
Wendy,” Christopher Hooton wrote in
a review for The Independent. 

Season two of “Ozark” is now available on
Netflix.

Watch a trailer for the new season below: