Laurie Metcalf stars as Bobette Buffkin, who runs Prestige Payday Loans with the help of her three kids. Cooper (Jay Ferguson) and Brandy (Katie Lowes) love their jobs -- they certainly seem happier at work than they do in their unfulfilling marriages -- but Morgan (Jeff Hephner) has begun to have reservations about the morality of charging 25% weekly interest on loans to those who can least afford them.
The lot of the usurer, we learn from Easy Money, is not an easy one. Your clients don't make their payments (even the cops), and when you try to collect, they sometimes get violent. A pair of enormous, menacing Samoan brothers has just opened their own payday loan place just a few blocks away.
And poor Morgan! Not only does he struggle with the ethics of the family business, but he's trying to start a romance with a pretty young college student, and by the end of the first episode, he's learned that he might actually be adopted.
"Am I adopted?" in the first episode is not a good sign; sinking to soap-opera cliche so quickly suggests that the writers don't have much up their sleeves, a suggestion borne out by the rest of the episode. None of it is very interesting, and even the usually reliable Metcalf can't bring any life to her character; her enormous red wig is the most interesting thing in the show.
A dull, pointless waste of time.
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