{"id":494588,"date":"2026-05-20T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:00:16","slug":"margos-got-money-troubles-creators-unpack-season-1-finale-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/494588\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019 Creators Unpack Season 1 Finale, Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the finale of Season 1 of Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tMargo\u2019s Got Money Troubles season one has come to a close, but the good news is that the Apple TV comedy, based on Rufi Thorpe\u2019s best-selling novel, has been renewed for a second season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe season one finale brings about the conclusion of Margo\u2019s (Elle Fanning) legal battle for custody of her son Bodhi with his father her former professor Mark (Michael Angarano) and drops hints of what could be explored in its next installment along the way, most notably, messages from a JB, who sends Margo large sums as a new fan toward the end of the episode.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe didn\u2019t have time for it in season one, but we love that character in the book, and we have ideas,\u201d creator David E. Kelley<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

\n\tJB becomes Margo\u2019s love interest in Thorpe\u2019s book, on top of the psych evaluation and Child Protective Services investigation she deals with towards the end of the novel along with her father\u2019s relapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll just say, \u2018Don\u2019t count JB out,\u2019\u201d EP and co-showrunner for season two Eva Anderson<\/a> told Deadline. \u201cOnce she\u2019s settled her legal issues, [Margo] might have time to look into some dating. There\u2019s a little more space for it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the below interview, Kelley and Anderson further break down the season one finale with Paul McCrane\u2019s judge expediting the court proceedings, the fate of certain romantic relationships and areas to explore in season two.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: They don\u2019t go to court in the book, that\u2019s pretty different. Why did you want to build to that climax with the judge character?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tKELLEY: <\/strong>I can\u2019t help myself. If you leave me alone in a room with a legal pad and a pen, sooner or later, somebody\u2019s going to end up in court. People have tried to do an intervention, but it felt very organic to this series, because clearly there were legal and liability issues that were percolating throughout, and we were inviting the audience to wonder, \u201cThis center cannot hold, something\u2019s going to give\u201d when Margo goes into OnlyFans and Mark tumbles into that reality.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat final episode, it took place in a courtroom, but it really was a family scene. Those people were all there for each other, Jinx, Shyanne, Susie, Margo, of course, Lace as the lawyer, Rose and KC in the back, all the people. Part of the series reminded me of The Wizard of Oz at times, they\u2019re all going down this yellow brick road, a different kind of road, who knows where they\u2019re going to end, but they were on this journey together. So it felt like a natural and organic venue for to play out the ultimate dramatic through-line in a room where they could all be a unit.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Nicole<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNicole Kidman in \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV<\/p>\n

\n\tANDERSON: <\/strong>And just a little behind the scenes of that scene, when the baby says, \u201cDada,\u201d to Jinx. That was the day the baby started speaking<\/a>. He started saying, \u201cDada\u201d right before he went on camera, and we all realized that he was talking, and so we were like, \u201cWe hope this happens on camera.\u201d And he had bonded so tightly with all the cast, except for Michael Angarano, who played Mark. So he just said \u201cDada\u201d to everybody. It was so wild that we were able to use it. And it was completely organic. That was Graham [Hendrix], one of our two babies who played Bodhi.<\/p>\n

\n\tKELLEY: <\/strong>It was a big challenge in that scene, there were many, many stories going on. There was Shyanne and Jinx\u2019s story sitting next to each other. Obviously, Shyanne and Margo\u2019s connection, Margo\u2019s legal stakes, Kenny was sitting there. We had different prisms and point of views that we all wanted to capture their stories, even Mark holding his son for the first time. So it was necessarily going to be a very long scene to be able to unearth and do justice to all these different storylines happening in the same room. So that begat Paul McCrane, because I thought, \u201cOkay, this scene needs to move at a pace so it will hold.\u201d Because courtroom\u2019s, by their nature, can be very static. It was going to be, a 10 page scene, maybe longer.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo we made the determination early on, we need a judge who\u2019s maybe got some attention deficit disorders or impulsivity, who wants to move it along. Maybe he just really had to go to the bathroom, but he had to move through this quickly. It exemplified the series itself a little bit because very, very real truths and problems are being played out, but an element of absurdism at the same time. And Paul McCrane, who played that judge \u2014 and he did, take after take after, take after take of walking around that room like a madman and target bombing his subjects \u2014 he was just fantastic. He\u2019s a gifted actor. He always has been. There\u2019s a reason he\u2019s working at one job after another. But he came in and not many people could have done that.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019 Stars Emphasize \u201cIncredible Amount Of Preparation\u201d For Stunts That Underscore \u201cEmotional Peak\u201d Of Seventh Episode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tANDERSON: <\/strong>Perfect every time. I watched him get covered in toxic waste last night in Robocop.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: With the Season 2 renewal, have you thought about Kenny and Shyanne\u2019s dynamic moving forward after Kenny called CPS, and she\u2019s mad at him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tANDERSON: <\/strong>Yeah, that\u2019s definitely going to have to be addressed. That\u2019s a pretty big violation, and we definitely saw the look on Shyanne\u2019s face in that final scene. So that\u2019s not going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Greg<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGreg Kinnear as Kenny in \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019 Season 1<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: I\u2019m curious about the<\/strong> Shyanne and Jinx of it all. Obviously, Jinx has his path. He needs to work some things out, but is that something you\u2019d want to explore?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tKELLEY: <\/strong>Well, we are going to explore. Not going to give away any plot points, but you know the adage in relationships, or at least, I\u2019ve heard it many times, that people need to figure out the me before we figure out the we. That\u2019s certainly applicable in this show. But the inverse is also true. There\u2019s a we in there that that they need to figure out in order to tumble to the me for both of them, I think, because \u00a0they\u2019re bound up in ways, Shyanne and Jinx, that maybe, if they had the choice, they wouldn\u2019t be, but they\u2019re in each other\u2019s system, right or wrong. And that system will certainly be mined in Season 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Back to the season one finale, I\u2019m curious about the scene where Margo tells Shyanne, \u201cI\u2019m gonna reveal the tunnel of love at some point.\u201d That really felt full circle with Shyanne being more accepting. Could you talk about that moment and that whole theme in the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tKELLEY: <\/strong>Yeah, that, I think, maybe, was our best effort at articulating the judgment and lack of judgment and the forsaking of judgment, because Lord knows that Shyanne had a lot of judgment for Margot and vice versa, and the acceptance they have for each other was manifested in that scene. But I let Eva write all the tunnel of love stuff.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Michelle<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMichelle Pfeiffer in \u2018Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV<\/p>\n

\n\tANDERSON: <\/strong>That\u2019s not true. You wrote that. He always says that. <\/strong>David wrote that scene. I thought, and it was really beautiful and highlighted how far Shyanne has come, that Margo is still a kid in a lot of ways. She\u2019s terrified, and she needs her mom in that moment. Shyanne, in the last two episodes, really starts showing up in a really different way for Jinx and for Margo, and it\u2019s a really beautiful moment that she gets to share with her daughter.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: I\u2019ll make my last question just about the OnlyFans team and making all that content. I loved the moment when Susie, KC and Rose met each other in the courtroom. Is there more teamwork to come in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tANDERSON: <\/strong>Yeah, Susie\u2019s gonna continue to be a creative monster because I don\u2019t think she can help herself with all of her cosplay and her design and her big, beautiful brain. So, I do think she\u2019ll be part of the team going forward in a much more serious way.<\/p>\n

\n\tKELLEY: <\/strong>I love that you asked that question, because one of the fun parts of writing the series is anticipating and looking forward to exploring relationships of characters that we hadn\u2019t begun with yet, because that did feel so organic. We\u2019ve got so many different places to go, and that\u2019s exactly one of them. What about Susie\u2019s relationship with KC and Rose? Clearly, they\u2019re going to have a lot in common with their performing and creative instincts, so I\u2019m happy you got that in that courthouse corridor scene.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: <\/strong>Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles\u2019 Star Nick Offerman On Jinx\u2019s \u201cNatural Friendship\u201d With Susie As They \u201cCombine Show Biz Forces\u201d For Margo\u2019s OnlyFans Account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the finale of Season 1 of Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles. Margo\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[593,102427,18,117,215586,19,17,42509,128],"class_list":["post-494588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-david-e-kelley","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-eva-anderson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margos-got-money-troubles","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116608449399112167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}