Deli Boys returns to Hulu on May 28 with Season 2, picking up as the Dar brothers’ criminal rise collides with a new threat from the law and a blast at the family’s A.B.C. Deli outlet.

The Onyx Collective crime comedy brings back Asif Ali as Mir, Saagar Shaikh as Raj, Fred Armisen as Max Sugar and Andrew Rannells as District Attorney Andrew Chadwater, while Raj’s cover marriage to Nandika, played by Amita Rao, moves a wedding drug deal scheme into the center of the story. In the season setup, the deli explodes behind the brothers, a sharp reminder that the world they were thrown into last season is getting harder to control.

That matters because Season 1 ended with Mir embracing his role as a mob boss and Raj settling in beside him after being unexpectedly thrust into the criminal world. Season 2 now follows the pair as they rise into running a drug empire, turning what once looked like a survival story into one about power, leverage and who gets to keep the profits. Raj is also tracking down Ahmad, played by Brian George, after learning he arranged their father’s death, adding a personal vendetta to the business at hand.

The sneak peek makes clear where the pressure is coming from next. Sugar, whom Armisen has described as a self-described “backdoor man,” meets with Chadwater and talks about helping his mayoral campaign, even as the district attorney says he wants to clean up Philly’s drug problem. Sugar is shown making donor calls from an unplugged phone and promising that donations can reach $200,000 or more, a detail that suggests the anti-drug message and the cash being gathered around it may be headed for the same place.

That is the tension built into the new season: the brothers are trying to grow a criminal operation while a political figure who is running for mayor presents himself as part of the solution. The setup leaves little room for innocence on either side. When Deli Boys returns, the question is not whether the family is still in danger; it is whether Mir and Raj can keep building their empire once the people calling themselves protectors start sounding a lot like opportunists.