Right? And once they called for the manager, her savvy hookup concierge friend would have been facing some shit, too.
And yeah, I guess it was probably just trying to sell the fantasy. The real fantasy IS the whole "money isn't even a thing" aspect, but a stack of cash looks more impressive on screen, I suppose.

Or maybe it's more about selling the fantasy from the other side - the idea of how it would feel to be drawn into her circle, and sympathy for the people she did "befriend". The idea that this supposed heiress is just laying hundreds down on your desk in exchange for your attention. Could you (presumably middle-class-at-best audience member) resist?

Even if that was the point, though... it still made part of her characterization clumsy, and I don't think that was worth it.

Since I did have it on in the background while I was doing other stuff, I'm willing to admit I could have missed some things. And aspects of the story were genuinely pretty interesting... but there were a lot of things like that that just felt *weird*, and therefore broke the immersion. Like... how can I believe she's a great con artist if even I can spot things that seem out of place?