John assures his wife they’ll have dinner once he gets back from a couple of international business trips. Content to wait, Molly notices a spot on his tie and steps out of the party to get him a new one. In his room, she discovers his assistant Hailey, with whom John has been having an affair. Molly storms out, and–in front of the entire party–confronts John and demands a divorce.
Molly and John divorced eight months after they married. Molly is now the world’s third richest woman, thanks to her divorce from John.
She and her assistant Nicholas go on a months-long bender to help her cope with the break-up.
Sofia Salinas, the executive director of Molly’s charity foundation, called the newly minted billionaire and told him that the foundation was having difficulty meeting its goals. The billionaire asked her how he could help and she said that he could come to her office to discuss the problem.
Molly agrees to change her ways, but she ends up doing more than that. Hoping to fill a void in her life, she decides to attend a ribbon cutting for one of the foundation’s new shelters. But when she gives an offensive speech, Sofia asks her to find a different cause.
Molly refuses to come into work at the organization. She wants to find out who she is and what her life is all about.
Molly sets up her office and changes the name on the door from Molly Novak to Molly Wells.
The Episode Review
The first side of the story is that Apple TV is a great way to watch comedy shows. The second side of the story is that Apple TV is a terrible way to watch comedy shows.
In her portrayal of a woman confronting the upsetting reality of getting older and losing her husband to a younger woman, Maya Rudolph shines. Loot promises a compelling story of Molly’s journey to self-discovery.
The newly-made billionaire uses charity and the working class to make her feel better about herself? That may just prove to be a storyline more agonizing than entertaining.
