Bookie season 2 is back

Bookie, the Max show about the world of sports betting, returns to the streamer for a second season. The performers and creators claim they've increased the storytelling antics in the dark comedy, which might serve as a warning about the risks of betting on sports.

Bookie follows veteran Los Angeles bookie Danny (Sebastian Maniscalco) as the impending legalization of sports gambling in California threatens to permanently disrupt his company. Maniscalco reprises his role as Danny in the highly anticipated Season 2 of the Max series, and he says the character continues to defy the preconception of someone in charge of evaluating gambling chances.

“We didn’t see that last season, but we’ll see a whole lot of that this season, especially with Frank and the other people who come to live in his house that he thought he was just living in with his grandmother,” Dorsey said of his character’s compassionate side that will be on full display in Bookie‘s second season. “I think that his evolution this season … it stems from that. … My grandmother’s husband, fiance, or whatever — husband now — has a heart attack in the finale of last season, so now he is put in a position to be the person to help his grandmother out, and to help out her husband that he was never in before. … He has to put himself on the back burner a little bit to start taking care of other people.”

Bookie Season 2 premiered on Thursday, with new episodes weekly leading up to the season finale on Jan. 30.