Aahana Swrup
The comedy drama series ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ revolves around the chaos and financial instability that an unexpected pregnancy brings into the life of a young college student. Margo Millet is the daughter of a single mother, Shyanne, and an estranged father, ex-pro wrestler Jinx. In college, she ends up falling into an affair with her married literature professor, Mark Gable. Although the affair is short-lived, a pregnancy test or two reveals that its consequences are not. For reasons beyond the comprehension of those in Margo’s life, the young woman decides to have the baby and raise it as a single mother. However, it’s only once Baby Bodhi arrives that the young mother realizes the financial freefall she has implicitly signed herself up for. Therefore, when her father, Jinx, shows up at her door, offering his support and the occasional free child care, she’s all too happy to take him up on the offer. SPOILERS AHEAD!
Margo and Mark’s Ill-Advised Love Affair
As an only child, Margo has always had an avid imagination, which she quickly transformed into an impressive writing talent at an early age. Still, she’s overwhelmed to receive resounding praise for her work from her lit professor, Mark, at Fullerton College. Off-the-bat, when her long-distance best friend, Becca, learns about the same, as well as her friend’s plans to grab dinner with the professor, she’s suspicious of the latter’s intentions. Margo assures her that she would never start up an affair with the older, married man, but inevitably ends up doing just that. Although their relationship remains fun and adventurous, Margo never expects much out of it. She certainly doesn’t plan to end up getting pregnant with her professor’s child.
Initially, when Mark learns the news, he tries to encourage Margo to terminate the unplanned pregnancy. However, her feelings toward the new development aren’t as clear-cut, especially once she goes through the early ultrasound test and gets a picture of the baby in her womb. As such, she ends up deciding to keep the baby, which effectively brings an end to her involvement in the extramarital affair. When her mother, Shyanne, learns that her daughter has decided to become a mother, she isn’t very thrilled by the idea. Since she has been in Margo’s shoes in her own youth, she intimately knows the reality of how a child upends a young single mother’s life and future prospects. Still, she’s prepared to support her daughter through her life choices.
Margo is Bothered by Shyanne’s Complicated Feelings on Her Pregnancy
From the get-go, Shyanne remains on the fence about her daughter’s pregnancy. She herself got pregnant with Margo at a young age when she was a waitress at Hooters. However, she later found out that the man she had a one-night stand with was already married and had no plans of leaving his old family for a new one. Despite everything, she still loved him and was glad to have crossed paths with him. After she decided to have the baby, she raised her daughter on her own with sporadic visits from the father.
Therefore, Shyanne can understand the reasons Margo is hellbent on her decision and all the reasons why it might turn out to be a mistake. For the same reason, even though she remains by Margo’s side along every step of the day, she can’t genuinely share in the latter’s infectious joy and careless anticipation. Eventually, after Margo runs into Mark and his family outside a shopping center, she ends up confronting her mother about the same. However, apart from her anger stems from the obvious corner she has now backed herself into. The reality of the drawbacks of pregnancy and the financial toll of childcare supplies has finally caught up to the expecting mother. Nonetheless, despite the hurdles along the way, Margo can count on Shyanne’s unending support when it really counts, such as the day of her son’s birth.
A Newborn Baby Brings Chaos to Margo’s Life, and Her Apartment
After giving birth to her son, Bodhi, Margo returns to her apartment with no instruction manual on how to be a mother. From dealing with the post-partum aftermath, constant breastfeeding, and the baby’s never-ending cries, the new mother remains mostly alone and overwhelmed in the endeavor. While one of her roommates, Susie, tries to be supportive and understanding, her other two roommates can’t look past the inconvenience the baby is causing in their lives. On the other hand, Margo herself has many complicated feelings about being a new mother. Yet, regardless of the difficulties, she loves her son wholeheartedly and is happy to devote herself to his care. Still, soon enough, reality begins to set in.
With bills and diaper costs piling up, Margo needs to get back out there to start making money. However, she doesn’t have the funds to be able to afford a babysitter. As a result, she has no choice but to ask her reluctant mother to step in as she returns to her waitressing job. Shyanne is skeptical about her ability to step back into the role of caregiver after all this time. Eventually, her fears are proven right when, a few hours into her care, Bodhi refuses to stop crying. Consequently, she ends up bringing the baby to Margo at her place of work, where the mother is able to easily pacify her son. However, at the end of the night, she’s given some awful news when her boss and friend, Tessa, fires her, citing unreliability.
Kenny Takes Margo and Shyanne Out on a Special Applebee’s Dinner
While Margo begins her foray into motherhood, Shyanne steers an adventure of her own. She’s in a relationship with Kenny, the President of the Episcopalian Church. Even though she keeps her fair share of secrets from the other man, many about her own personality and lifestyle choices, she’s serious enough about their relationship. In fact, she’s expecting him to propose and wants her daughter to be supportive of the development. However, she’s worried that Kenny would have a hard time accepting Margo’s decision to be a single mother who had a child out of wedlock.
Therefore, she keeps it a secret from him for the longest time. Nevertheless, it becomes impossible to keep the secret any longer when Kenny inevitably invites Margo out ot dinner with them. At dinner, although Kenny’s views on the new mother’s situation still remain dubious and relatively old-fashioned, he reserves no direct judgment for her. Soon enough, the reason behind the dinner invitation reveals itself when Kenny asks for Margo’s blessing in his relationship with his mother. With the blessing acquired, he gets down on one knee and proposes to Shyanne.
Jinx Finally Responds to Margo’s Messages
Early on, when Margo decides to keep the baby, she reaches out to her father to update him about the development. Even though they’ve always had an estranged relationship, he had expressed his desire to be in the loop on all the big moments in her life. Yet, when she reaches out to him now, he remains absolutely radio silent. While Margo takes this to mean his indifference, there is actually another element at play. Her father, James Millet, aka Jinx, a pro-wrestling superstar, struggles with addiction. In the time between Margo’s pregnancy and the birth of her child, Jinx was admitted into a rehab center. As soon as he’s released from the center, he looks through his messages and learns about his grandson.
As a result, instead of returning home to his ex-wife and kids, Jinx ends up trading his championship belt for a motorcycle and drives out to Fullerton, California. Although Margo is surprised to see him at her door, she welcomes him easily enough, introducing him to his grandson, Bodhi. Around the same time, Margo and Susie lose their other two roommates, who move out with little notice. As a result, the possibility of Jinx moving in with them opens up. Susie, who is a big fan of the wrestler’s career, has no issues with the idea. However, Margo can’t help but remain worried about the possibility of her father relapsing, especially with Bodhi around. In the end, she realizes Jinx truly wants to stay clean and that he wants to be a part of her and his grandson’s life. Thus, she decides to accept him as her new roommate.
Margo Gets a Trust Fund For Her Son
Shortly after getting fired from her old job, Margo realizes that her prospects of employment are slim to none. Therefore, in a rage, she ends up arriving at her old community college with Bodhi to confront Mark. His stark refusal to be involved in his son’s life has started to grate on her nerves, especially in the face of an impossible financial crisis. As such, she demands three thousand dollars from him, making it clear that he doesn’t have much of a choice in the matter. However, this ends up blowing back at her when Mark’s mother, Elizabeth, contacts her with a meeting invitation. As such, the day after Shyanne’s engagement, Margo finds herself meeting with her son’s other grandmother.
Elizabeth’s hostile feelings towards Margo remain evident from the get-go. She believes that the other woman has tricked her son and is now trying to extort him. Therefore, she has come up with a plan to make sure she stays far away from Mark. The family lawyer offers Margo a lucrative deal. Elizabeth would open a trust fund in Bodhi’s name of 50 thousand dollars. By the time the kid has access to the funds, the amount will have matured closer to 300 thousand dollars. The only thing Margo has to do in order to make this fund a reality is sign an NDA, agree to never set foot in Fullerton College again, and leave Mark alone. In the end, the mother ends up taking the deal, securing her son’s future.
Margo Discovers OnlyFans
OnlyFans, the paid subscription service known for explicit content creators, enters Margo’s radar after she learns about a wrestler, Arabella, through Susie and Jinx. The wrestler was fired from WWE after the organization expressed its desire to have no association with the platform. Nonetheless, since the wrestler makes good money from the side-hustles, she has chosen to just be a part of a different wrestling organization. Once the idea of making money through explicit content enters Margo’s brain, she finds herself more and more intrigued by it.
Initially, when she checks out the platform, she makes an account for herself under the name HungryGhost, referencing a poem Mark had written for her during their affair. As she explores the platform more and more, Margo learns about a creator who makes money out of insulting their subscribers’ penises. Thus, she decides to provide a similar service, reasoning that her writing could be an asset here. A brief introduction and a few nudes to affirm she’s a “hot girl,” later, Margo has set up her account. Meanwhile, in her personal life, a number of things go wrong.
Shyanne believes letting Jinx move in is a disastrous idea, which results in an intense confrontation between the trio. On the other hand, Margo gets in a fight with Becca after the latter makes the radical suggestion of putting Bodhi up for foster care. Yet, as the day ends and Margo finds herself alone with Bodhi, she realizes that she’s exactly where she’s meant to be and that her son only adds meaning to her life that has been missing all this time. Simultaneously, things finally begin to look up when Margo receives a notification on her account about a new subscriber who has apparently already tipped her 20 dollars for a scathing review of their penis.
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