The Pop Culture Pundit

^{Loot | “Bye-Bye Mode” | Season 3, Episode 1 | October 15, 2025}

Do you ever feel like you’re watching a TV show that’s a complete fever dream? Usually I get this feeling when I’m watching Riverdale, or even And Just Like That…but now I can safely add Apple TV’s Loot to the list. 

I’ll admit I have not ever seen Loot prior to the season 3 premiere. All I know is that it stars the fabulous Maya Rudolph and has a baller theme song…but when I stumbled across the season 3 trailer featuring Adam Scott, I knew I had to watch. Of course, we all know and love Scott from Parks and Recreation and Severance, and he and Rudolph also appeared together on The Good Place. Apparently Scott has been a recurring character on Loot this entire time and not just season 3, but that’s beside the point: the season 3 premiere is insane enough to make me want to blog about it, and that is all that matters. 

We begin with Rudolph’s character, Molly, waking up on a beach after an apparent catastrophic plane crash. Is this show about to be the next Lost? Or maybe even foreshadowing the events of the upcoming Rachel McAdams/Dylan O’Brien horror thriller Send Help?

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Definitely not, because it’s totally giving Gilligan’s Island vibes at first. Molly and her trusty friend/assistant Nicholas (Joel Kim Booster) seem to be carving out a pretty cozy life constructed out of palm trees and freshly caught/cooked fish…but is this all too good to be true? 

Indeed it is, because the next thing we know Nicholas is running over to the other side of the island where he is greeted by a giant mansion with a fresh crop of assistants waiting to tailor to Molly’s needs. 

Apparently Nicholas faked the plane crash to help Molly get over a man named Arthur…and now they’re living on an island where the iconic Henry Winkler is the leader of a nudist cult? 

This is a role I never pictured the Fonz himself Henry Winkler playing…but I am also kind of living for it. Henry Winkler is such a legend, not just because he was a beloved character on classic sitcom Happy Days but also because he finally won an Emmy for playing acting coach Gene Cousineau on the dark comedy Barry in 2018 forty years later and also also because he runs an insanely wholesome X (Twitter) where he posts about his fishing trips: 

The end of a great trip . See you next year Mr Brown pic.twitter.com/pAJI3EAXJg

— Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) July 10, 2022

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Seeing him play a man in just a hat and a robe and nothing else is so against the character type I’d imagine for him I am personally having trouble computing it in my brain. But yet that is Loot, a show I am guessing is about money and Molly having a lot of it but I may never know because I will probably never watch the first two seasons due to having simply too much TV to watch at the moment (including Only Murders in the Building, The Chair Company, Chad Powers, and of course catching up on 17 seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race). 

Which brings me to my next point about this recap…who is Arthur? It seems Molly was in love with a man by this name who is hopefully not the aardvark, and messed things up so bad her coworkers had to fake a plane crash to help her get over it. 

Well, soon enough we find out who Arthur is…and it’s Neville from The Conners! Nat Faxon is always a delight, and it is obvious that Arthur and Molly have so much chemistry! By the end of the episode they agree to be an item, and I am truly looking forward to this relationship pairing (and it seems I may have missed two seasons of will-they-won’t-they so it’s kind of nice to skip right to the they-will part). 

I am truly curious though how they are going to fit in Henry Winkler in the rest of the season (his name in the show is Gerald, by the way), as well as Adam Scott. I think Scott’s character is Molly’s ex-husband, and when they divorced she got a lot of money, thus setting the events of the show in motion. Whatever happens this season, I am fully seated because I have been waiting for a chaotic show to fill the hole for the dearly departed And Just Like That…, and though The Morning Show is a good substitute, it sometimes takes itself too seriously to be completely unhinged. 

Loot is also the ideal show to watch while the weather gets colder with fall finally creeping in, and I think getting summer energy from television is absolutely perfect to offset Seasonal Affective Disorder. 

Now, to continue the good vibes, let’s all listen to the theme song of this fun-loving comedy. 

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