Bernard, Fran and Manny return for a second, equally hilarious, series centre around the world's worst book shop
The show centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, gentle, sweet and good, Manny is punished by Bernard relentlessly for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Bereft of her loathed business concerns, Fran struggles to find significance in between struggling to find her cigarettes and reasons for another drink. In series two, Fran uses Manny to fool her strict, blind piano teacher. Bernard tries to turn the shop into a cafe, and continues on his endless quest to torment Manny, and to prove he is mad.
