In the first season of Loot, the distance between the billionaires’ lives and the rest of the people made people laugh, largely due to Maya Rudolph‘s humor, perfectly capturing all the hypocrisy that is so current and present in today’s culture. Molly Novak, the billionaire who spent a season trying to recover from her separation from her husband, hasn’t advanced one millimeter as a person. Her return two years later makes this clear without wasting a second. Worse is that no one around her seems to have changed either.

The billionaire and her lovely team at the Wells Foundation are still trying to figure out how to navigate the emptiness in the lives of those who have so much and are so disconnected from the world that she doesn’t even know how to effectively “help.” In the first two episodes, the team is on good terms, but there is a lack of laughter to inspire confidence in the story.

We resume the story just after the unforgettable sip of shitty water, with Molly having a relapse with her ex, John Novak (Adam Scott), but this does not mean a reconciliation. Molly’s daily presence at her foundation no longer hallucinates the executive director, Sofia Salinas (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez) like it used to, but it’s far from working. The difficulty of using a billion dollars in a way that helps as many people as possible has never seemed so complicated.

The problem of Molly’s lack of purpose could equally threaten the story. For now, she finds a distraction: Sofia’s love life. In the role of architect Isaac (O-T Fagbenle), Molly decides that she will help with the romance and succeeds. Now hers is missing. Did it need to be so obvious?

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