Let me say a few things, before I review this final episode. A warning: I will reference some specifics, but no spoilers.
Since is it the last episode, I will start with a short blurb on the entire series. Would I call it a "dark comedy"? No, I will call a noir comedy though. A world a illegal bookies trying to make a living, a crooked cop, and some low life degenerate gamblers. Plus funny(and often random) goings on, family dramas, and great interplay between the two main protaganists bookies Danny (Sebastian Valmont er Maniscalco) and Ray (Omar J. Dorsey). All and all Bookie a winner(pun intended)!
Now for the final episode.
The impact of the louche(to say the least) aspects of the business seems to be causing Ray to lose his tenious grip on his domestic situation/marraige with wife Sandra and her son Anthony. Understable if you watched episode seven.
Now for Ray's twenty something mistress. Anyone of us of a certain age, who interacts with teens and/or those in their twenties, can relate, oh those smart phones!
Quite unexpectedly, to this reviewer, for the first time since episode one, Charlie Sheen pops up, playing himself again. He gives Ray relationship advice and clears his gambling debt with a hilarious piece of sports memoribilia. Great scene!
Finally, what happens at the end, is a killer and a splash, and quite a good way to wrap things up(or pause them if we are in store for another season).
