India, May 24 -- Margo (Elle Fanning) has more than just money troubles, and the new show does not waste any time showing us why. In the new Apple TV series Margo's Got Money Troubles, based on the 2024 novel by Rufi Thorpe, Elle plays a rather impulsive and starry-eyed college student who is enamoured by her English professor Mark (Michael Angarano). It sure does not bode well, and soon enough, she is pregnant. What will she do now?

It is not that she has a lot to support herself. She is the only child of a Hooters waitress (played by Michelle Pfeiffer) and an ex-pro wrestler (portrayed by Nick Offerman), both of whom are separated. She has to pay the rent too. Margo chooses to keep the baby and drops out of school (forcibly) to look af...