“Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” stars and is executive produced by Academy Award, Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Elle Fanning; Golden Globe Award winner, and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Michelle Pfeiffer; and Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Nicole Kidman. The ensemble cast is also led by Emmy Award winner Nick Offerman and Thaddea Graham. Hailing from A24 and multi-Emmy Award winner David E. Kelley, and based on Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel of the same name, the eight-episode Apple Original series will premiere globally on Apple TV on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 with three episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through May 20, 2026.
“Margo’s Got Money Troubles” is a bold, heartwarming and comedic family drama following recent college dropout and aspiring writer, Margo (Fanning), the daughter of an ex-Hooters waitress (Pfeiffer) and ex-pro wrestler (Offerman), as she’s forced to make her way with a new baby, a mounting pile of bills and a dwindling amount of ways to pay them. The series also stars Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Greg Kinnear, Michael Angarano, Rico Nasty, and Lindsey Normington.
Angie Han for The Hollywood Reporter:
Viewed from a great distance — like, say, the interstellar perspective of the UFO that descends upon Fullerton, California, in one of the protagonist’s fanciful sci-fi videos — Margo’s Got Money Troubles might appear at first like a venture into a strange and alien land.
The ensemble is stuffed with colorful job descriptions: former Hooters waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer’s Shyanne), ex pro wrestler (Nick Offerman’s Jinx), a trio of OnlyFans models. The opening narration, from Margo herself (Elle Fanning), tells of “impossible possibilities” and “trying to avoid reality by rewriting it.” All in all, the David E. Kelley series would seem to have all the hallmarks of an aggressively quirky family drama, the sort where everyone seems adorably odd but also not quite real.
Look closer, however, and Margo’s Got Money Troubles reveals itself to be something else. Its characters are memorable, sure, and their family relationships a bit unconventional. But this is a story firmly grounded in the real world, and all the more interesting for it…
Though Margo’s Got Money Trouble is the rare show that feels just about the right length for the amount of story it has to tell, at eight 40-ish minute episodes, I still felt a bit sorry to see them go at season’s end.
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