Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for 'Bookie'. Bookie is one of the most binge-able shows streaming right now. Dorsey and consists of eight very crisply paced episodes that mix laugh-out-loud moments with some darker humor. The first season of the show established the two main characters, Danny Maniscalco and his former NFL buddy Ray Dorsey as they do their damnedest to collect on the debts of losing bettors including Lorre's pal from Two and a Half Men , Charlie Sheen as himself in and around the Los Angeles area.
The show follows the hardscrabble life of small-time bookies intermingled with the quirky and eccentric people they seek to collect from. There is also significant time dedicated to the family that surrounds Danny and Ray, which makes the characters more sympathetic and relatable. So before you know it, you have raced through the entire first installment of episodes that range in runtime from 20 to 25 minutes.
But what did the finale of Lorre's new show mean? What is going on between Danny and Sandra Andrea Anders? And how does it set up a second season? Follows a veteran bookie struggling to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family and co-workers. Throughout the first season of Bookie , Danny and his longtime girlfriend Sandra have had their fair share of ups and downs.
Sandra is having a difficult time with the tumultuous nature of Danny's job as a small-time bookie. Sometimes he doesn't come home. Other times he shows up having been beaten up. Either way, it is not exactly a typical relationship, and takes a lot of work to keep it all together. And did we mention that Danny is having a fling with a year-old aspiring actress on the side?
So, there's that as well. Meanwhile, Ray was once living in a mansion with all the money he was making in the NFL. Now, he's broke and living with his demanding grandma Arnetia Walker in a less-than-desirable part of town next to an oil rig. He also has children with three women to whom he has to pay alimony usually in the form of a stack of cash. On top of these three prior relationships, he is currently in a sexual relationship with Danny's sister, Lorraine Vanessa Ferlito , who also manages the small LA office that he and Danny work out of.
