“Topical” and “touching”
October 2, 2008 | customers, employees | Comments (0)“Easy Money” is reviewed in Variety:
All too realistically, the Prestige Payday Loans family business is booming — people need cash fast and are defaulting on their advances. As a result, the Buffkins live in a posh, “Dynasty”-like setting but retain trailer-park sensibilities, eating chicken out of a paper bucket on the good china. At the core of the family is matriarch Bobette (Laurie Metcalf), a preternaturally positive and frighteningly savvy businesswoman. In fact, the only thing brighter than her sunny disposition is her flaming red hair.
Bobette greets the degenerates and ne’er-do-wells who frequent the family business with the warmth and friendliness of a local diner waitress. It’s all a well-honed act, but also part of what appears to be a systematic state of denial. She tells her family, “Our wealth has got nothing to do with money,” preferring to see this dysfunctional clan as a model of pull-yourself-up-by-the-boot-straps success. Clearly, she enjoys the monetary trappings, and although her family does maintain a delicate peace, all is not really well.
How does someone at Variety know if this is “realistic?” The Payday Pundit will offer a review on Monday after the show’s Oct. 5 airing. I don’t expect to use the words “topical” and “touching” as this review does.
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