HBO recently released a new comedy, Bookie, which tells the story of two bookies.
There are a lot of big-name cameos in this play, and the main creator is Chuck Lorre, who everyone is very familiar with, and it seems to be quite interesting at present.
The protagonists of the story, Danny and Ray, are two bookies, who are busy with "business" every day, and they have to take the gamblers' customers' ** to help them place bets all the time. At the same time, you have to go around looking for these gamblers who owe a lot of debts to collect debts.
Danny and his girlfriend Sandra live together, and the two seem to be noisy every day, but the relationship is actually good. Sandra lives with her ex-husband's son, Anthony, and Danny has a good relationship with her stepson.
Ray used to be a star sports student, got into college by playing ball, and even played in the NFL. But he was born into a poor family, and after making a lot of money, he quickly lost his way, quickly burned all the money he earned, and even had to sell his mother's house. Now he is partnered with Danny, and his huge body is his debt collection weapon.
Danny's sister Lorraine keeps the accounts for both of them and is the brains of the trio.
One day, they learn that Charlie Sheen, a big star who owes them money, is "recuperating" at an addiction center in Malibu at the moment, so they rush to collect the debt.
Faced with Danny and Ray, Charlie Sheen had no choice but to pay off the famous watch in his hand. However, on the way back, the two were robbed, and in the chaos, Danny shot and killed the robber.
Just when the two were panicking, nothing happened the next day. Instead, the suicide of another gambler who owed them both debts made the police who knew each other come to the door.
The show's guest stars are quite heavyweight, such as the gambler played by Ray Romano at the beginning, and then Charlie Sheen, who later starred in herself.
For Charlie Sheen, American drama audiences should be very familiar with him, when he starred in "Two and a Half Men", because of a lot of things such as alcohol and drug abuse outside the play, he caused a storm in the city, and fell out with producer Chuck Lorre. This play can be regarded as the "reunion" of the two, and he made a cameo appearance to play himself, and that experience is really very consistent with this play.
In the first episode, Charlie's partners at the poker table are the same as Charlie's partners at the poker table in the first episode of "Two and a Half Men", and the show specially invited these actors back. Do you recognize the little Jake who was super cute back then and is now a bear?
This drama is a 20-minute comedy, so although the two male protagonists collect debts in front of bookies all day long, they don't actually have any stereotypical violent collection.
For example, Danny went to collect debts, and found that the debtor had changed from "him" to "she", and just opened his mouth to ask, he was attacked by the other party, and he was beaten violently, but he was embarrassed to mention that he was beaten by a girl.
Another example is that during the debt collection period of the two, they found that the debtor wanted to commit suicide, and the two persuaded him with kind words, and finally could only take away a carpet to pay off the debt.
Basically, looking at Danny and Ray, the audience must be laughing and sighing, how can you be a bookie at this level, you can't collect debts, do you want to drink the northwest wind?
Of course, this is actually the core of this play, after all, how can there be a plot of murder and arson in a comedy, and how can the protagonist of the comedy make laughter if he is not unlucky?
Compared with the debt collection story, in fact, the gag between the two protagonists is the core of the play, and it is also a lot of laughs**.
In addition, the story of the two murdering people by mistake after being robbed is also a typical comedy main plot.
Although Danny and Ray are bookies, and they also carry guns, it can be seen from the above plot that they are not extremely vicious***, so killing people is not trivial for them.
After accidentally killing the robber, although the two are glad that nothing happened, they can't help but investigate: how did the robber know that we have a famous watch?Why is the body gone?Why didn't anyone call the police?How could there be no blood on the ground?
In the process of investigation, the two encountered more accidents, creating more laughs, and at the same time, the two inconspicuous little bookies began to really fall into the dark world of crime, and the plot conflicts naturally became more and the story level was enriched.
In short, as a comedy with a very special theme, this drama is quite good, after all, it is HBO's shot, and most of the time it will not be wrong.