{"id":399593,"date":"2026-04-15T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399593\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:51:10","slug":"margos-got-money-troubles-review-a-truthful-and-achingly-funny-comedy-about-motherhood-and-sex-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399593\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019 review: A truthful and achingly funny comedy about motherhood and sex work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elle Fanning’s miniseries shows exactly how comedy-dramas should be done\n<\/p>\n

\"Nick<\/p>\n

Nick Offerman as Jinx, Elle Fanning as Margo and Michelle Pfeiffer as Shyanne in the sparkling miniseries \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019. Photo: Apple TV<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a funny old life. Never mind life, it\u2019s a funny old week. One day I\u2019m reviewing the second season of Big Mood<\/a> and saying how difficult it is to make a comedy-drama that satisfactorily meets both requirements of that genre.<\/p>\n

The next, along comes Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV, episodes 1-3, Wednesday, April 15), an eight-part miniseries that shows exactly how this kind of thing should be done. It\u2019s wonderful, as smooth and seamless a blend of funny and serious as you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Fanning’s miniseries shows exactly how comedy-dramas should be done Nick Offerman as Jinx, Elle Fanning as Margo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,9617,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-399593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pat-stacey","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}