How’s the loot (all money): is my money useless?

What’s the point of having so much money? is the question the protagonist tries to answer Loot (all the money)the Apple TV + series that tells the life of mega millionaire Molly Novak, who after the divorce she arrives at her foundation office to avoid boredom and depressionand looking for meaning to her existence as a rich woman suffering from sadness.

The series begins by showing the perfect life of Molly (Maya Rudolph), surrounded by the luxurious tastes provided by her husband, a tech guru with a fortune roughly comparable to the GDP of some medium-sized country.

As far as discovers that the man she has been married to for 20 years is cheating on her with a woman many years her junior: “He wasn’t even born when we graduated from college,” Molly scolds him, “he was actually one year old,” she replies.

a lot of money to spend

That’s where the story begins loot: after a scandalous and mediatic divorce, she satisfies 87 billion dollars, gets depressed and goes on tour for how much party there is around the world.

One day, after one of his many hangovers, he gets a call from a foundation that bears his name, because it’s his! even if she didn’t know. Like so many other companies that will appear.

Along with her assistant Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster), Molly shows up at the charity where she meets the rest of the characters.

Here they are Sofía Salinas (MJ Rodríguez), an idealist who manages the destiny of the foundation with conviction; Howard (Ron Funches) a cousin who she barely knows but “accommodated” in a position at some point she doesn’t remember; Arthur (Nat Faxon), the recently divorced accountant and devoted father; and some others that are discovered as the chapters pass.

Life dedicated to frivolity

Since arriving at the office, far from acting like the owner of the foundation, Molly looks more like the mascot, an office attraction that everyone must support in order to stop getting in trouble and acting so frivolous.

And he is committed to resigning, events, massages and even his own “Traditional 11 hours of sleep”even if it can’t avoid the occasional “skid”.

It can be said that up to now there is nothing new: a millionaire out of tupperware where she lives interacting with “common people”.

But just as novels have spent decades and decades repeating the formula of the rich boy falling in love with the poor girl (or her many possible combinations); the frivolous rich man who one day discovers that outside his own little world there is a world that has little to do with what he knows, he too continues to function.

The best of loot are the dialogues and the cast led by Maya Rudolph. The former Saturday Night Live shows once again her talent for comedy, without needing to exaggerate; from drunkenness to the most subtle gesture they are in the right measure.

Although the series is a comedy full of humor and sarcasm, it also has a dramatic aspect, at times well managed but at other times bordering on self-help. Both the latter and the constant emphasis on political correctness – although sometimes done with humor – are the weakest points of the series, which nevertheless continues to seek harmony.

Sometimes clichés are attractive for this very reason, because they are commonplace. And that balance of what’s expected and what’s great makes Loot have it everything needed to become a comedy that almost everyone can enjoy.

Created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard – with whom Rudolph had previously worked on the underrated Forever -, loot has 8 episodes available (premieres every Friday) of 10 of the first season and has just been renewed for a second.

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