Maya Rudolph leads Loot, a 2022 workplace comedy that drops a suddenly single billionaire into the charity foundation bearing her own name.
What is Loot about?
After decades married to a tech titan, Molly Wells walks away from the marriage with a fortune so vast it barely fits in her head. Rather than disappear into another gilded routine, she turns up at the Wells Foundation, the philanthropic arm she funded but never actually ran, and finds a small, skeptical staff who assume she is there to slum it for a headline. Molly Wells insists otherwise, and Loot spends its first season watching a woman built for luxury try to learn what her money is actually for. The workplace ensemble, led by Nat Faxon, Joel Kim Booster, Ron Funches and MJ Rodriguez, treats her arrival as an ongoing joke and an ongoing test, and the show gets real mileage out of the gap between charitable intentions and the unglamorous grind of actually giving money away well.
About the cast
Maya Rudolph anchors the show as Molly, with MJ Rodriguez as the foundation's grounded director, Nat Faxon and Ron Funches rounding out the office, and Joel Kim Booster supplying much of the show's sharpest banter. Series creators built the ensemble to play off Molly rather than serve her, which keeps the comedy from tipping into a single-star vehicle.
Context & significance
Loot arrived from Alan Yang, a writer with a track record for character comedy that takes its supporting cast seriously rather than treating them as scenery. Set in the United States and released in 2022, the series belongs to a run of workplace comedies that use money and status as the engine for character conflict rather than the punchline itself.
Watching Loot on Ktime
Loot streams on K-Time with a free account login, no separate signup or paperwork required. The series carries Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-speaking households who want the option of either watching dubbed or reading along in the original English performances.