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In Loving Memory of Loot’s Tragically Underdeveloped Side Plots
Season two spent too much time on its billionaire protagonist and not enough time on the more interesting characters around her.
Molly’s assistant, Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster); her cousin and hapless employee, Howard (Ron Funches); and foundation head Sofia (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez) make for far more interesting protagonists than a billionaire whose main concern is being liked. Getting to watch Funches and Booster work and do spots together (these are wrestling terms, don’t worry about it) is a series highlight but also a frustrating reminder of how much more fun this show could be if Molly was a regular chaos agent in the lives of the ensemble and less a solo main character being hurried through a love story. Played with utter perfection by Stephanie Styles, she’s the most consistent source of pure joy, regularly delivering the harrowing details of her religious upbringing with the sunniest of dispositions and singing silly songs about ice cream that Howard finds threatening.
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