SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Lock and Load,” the Season 1 finale of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” now streaming on Apple TV.
In the first episode of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” college student Margo (Elle Fanning) is led to believe she’s throwing her life and creative pursuits away for good after she decides to go through with an unplanned pregnancy. By the end of the season finale, though, she has not only won the tireless custody battle for Bodhi against his absent father, Mark (Michael Angarano), but is creatively rejuvenated through her work on OnlyFans.
“What actually happens over the course of the season [is] that the presence of Bodhi in her life kind of supercharges her creativity,” executive producer Eva Anderson, who has been upped to co-showrunner for the recently announced Season 2, tells Variety. “It gives her all this drive to make the best of her life, to be someone that her son will look up to, be proud of and take good care of him. So all the amazing work that she does, ultimately, is for her kid and for herself. It’s counter to all of those messages she’s been given.”
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Adapted from Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling 2024 novel of the same name and created for television by David E. Kelley — the renowned showrunner known for creating “Ally McBeal” and “The Practice,” and successfully bringing “Big Little Lies” and “Presumed Innocent” to the small screen — the eight-episode Apple TV series follows Margo on her chaotic, turbulent and artistic journey navigating motherhood.
