Loot: Season One
July 18, 2022 10:15 AM - Season 1 (Full Season) - Subscribe
Molly Wells (Maya Rudolph) has just divorced one of the wealthiest men in the world. Now she has to figure out what to do with her billions of dollars.
Loot doesn't achieve much closure at the end of its 10-episode debut run, suggesting the show has a fair amount of life left in it. If it's not a blockbuster, Rudolph and the cast ensure that it's quite good company, setting up a series possessing all the possibilities associated with a protagonist who has time, and money, to burn. -- CNN
It’s too busy elevating girlbosses, repeating Maya Rudolph’s Beyoncé impression, and making dated references to the marriage of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston to seize upon any relevance to this moment, and the fact that the series is perfectly pleasant while also ideologically hollow makes that name a unique kind of betrayal. -- Culture
Trying to wedge the elevated, stagey banter of a network single-cam into a show that borrows heavily from a shiny Apple TV+ in-house aesthetic only invites more dissonance than it’s worth. The result is a show as stuck between worlds as Molly is. -- IndieWire
Loot airs on Apple TV+. Its first season will be 10 episodes; a second season has been ordered.
Loot doesn't achieve much closure at the end of its 10-episode debut run, suggesting the show has a fair amount of life left in it. If it's not a blockbuster, Rudolph and the cast ensure that it's quite good company, setting up a series possessing all the possibilities associated with a protagonist who has time, and money, to burn. -- CNN
It’s too busy elevating girlbosses, repeating Maya Rudolph’s Beyoncé impression, and making dated references to the marriage of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston to seize upon any relevance to this moment, and the fact that the series is perfectly pleasant while also ideologically hollow makes that name a unique kind of betrayal. -- Culture
Trying to wedge the elevated, stagey banter of a network single-cam into a show that borrows heavily from a shiny Apple TV+ in-house aesthetic only invites more dissonance than it’s worth. The result is a show as stuck between worlds as Molly is. -- IndieWire
Loot airs on Apple TV+. Its first season will be 10 episodes; a second season has been ordered.
Just wondering if the show will ever grapple effectively with the fact that nobody should have that kind of money
It's an Apple show; of course it won't.
posted by wakannai at 11:35 AM on July 18, 2022 [6 favorites]
It's an Apple show; of course it won't.
posted by wakannai at 11:35 AM on July 18, 2022 [6 favorites]
I'm only 2 or 3 episodes in, but my biggest problem is that the power dynamic between Rudolph and the charity's director feels wildly unrealistic to me. I can maybe believe that Rudolph's character could be intimated by a strong personality who knows what they want out of life, particularly when she's reeling and kind of lost. But, even a very take charge personality is going to be way more differential to the source of the funds for the charity. Making it a chore for the charity director to deal with this person who wants to insert themselves into their charity has things that can pay off, but making them Rudolph's boss and scold feels really off to me.
posted by willnot at 11:57 AM on July 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by willnot at 11:57 AM on July 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
I feel like coming to terms with the ultimate immorality of that kind of wealth could only happen at the very end of the show, narratively-speaking. It can be a challenging show because they have to have Molly doing dumb shit, but it is hard to stay mad at Maya Rudolph.
posted by snofoam at 12:08 PM on July 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by snofoam at 12:08 PM on July 18, 2022 [2 favorites]
I love Maya Rudolph so much (so much) but I couldn’t make it past two episodes of this show. A show where the central conflict is “Oh I’m too rich and sheltered, poor me, what am I going to do with my fabulously amazing life” just rubs me the wrong freaking way. And from the sound of the above quotes and comments, it doesn’t seem like it gets better.
posted by ejs at 11:14 AM on July 21, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by ejs at 11:14 AM on July 21, 2022 [6 favorites]
This show is, undoubtedly, dumb. It's fun, though.
I found that it helped if I just changed the details in my head from 'multibillionaire' to 'princess', because I've seen so many stupid films about royalty that I can just go with it more easily.
posted by Acari at 10:07 AM on July 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
I found that it helped if I just changed the details in my head from 'multibillionaire' to 'princess', because I've seen so many stupid films about royalty that I can just go with it more easily.
posted by Acari at 10:07 AM on July 31, 2022 [2 favorites]
Really happy that this season ended where it did. Makes me hopeful that the next season will be much more interesting and easier to watch.
posted by tangosnail at 7:14 AM on August 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by tangosnail at 7:14 AM on August 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
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I love Maya Rudolph, and enjoy the cast. Just wondering if the show will ever grapple effectively with the fact that nobody should have that kind of money, at least as long as anybody lives in poverty and the only way to amass that kind of wealth is immoral.
posted by jzb at 11:26 AM on July 18, 2022 [2 favorites]