Apple TV Series "Margo's got Money Troubles" is Delightfully Quirky and Worth Watching

Having just read Rufi Thorpe's delightfully engrossing novel, "Margo's got Money Troubles," I wanted to see how well the iconic TV writer/produce David E. Kelley ("Big Little Lies" and "Boston Legal") would handle this quirky, dark comedy.  Kelley gets some star power help from his wife, the luminescent Michelle Pfieffer as Shyanne, mother to our heroine Margo. Margo is played by the indefatigable Elle Fanning (movie "Sentimental Value"and TV "The Great").  Nick Offerman (TV's "Parks and Recreations") plays Margo's absentee father, Jinx, a celebrity, pro-wrestler who never married Margo's mom. There's more power in Kelley's corner with Greg Kinnear as the unctuous pastor who Shyanne marries.  Nicole Kidman plays a retired wrestler turned attorney.  The book and the series rely on the fortitude of its central character, Margo.  Fanning as Margo gives a million dollar performance as a college coed who gets pregnant with her married, lit professor. The prof takes off and who distances himself from Margo and the baby. Marcia Gay Harden plays the ruthless mom to the spineless prof. out to protect her son at all costs. Thaddeus Graham ("Sex Education" and "Bad Sisters") plays Susie, Margo's helpful roommate.  Money makes the world go round and is the center of Margo's focus. She keeps her pregnancy despite the adamant advice against by her mother, best friend via cell from NYU and despite her own qualms.  Once reality has set in after the birth, all the plans that were ever planned are never going to play-out. The most pressing issue is providing sufficient funds to pay rent and for all the mounting essentials. Jinx appears at Margo's door seeking and providing solace just at a time when Margo and Susie need someone to help cover the rent after their two college roommates bailed on the chaos with baby Bodhi. The plot is immersed in credible crises that make you want to cry for Margo. But, before you start to feel overwhelmed with Margo's money plights, you find yourself cheering for the fight she puts up rather than go down for the count. What's a single mom to do to earn money with no money for a sitter?  Working from home is an option and the work she discovers brings in a payload. Margo creates an online sight for mature (if not infantile) adults which involves nudity. What turns Margo's fans on is her talent for writing which spices up the storytelling and gives the content zest. It's the best case scenario for Margo who finds the loving support she needs in mom, dad, Susie and in her inner strength with her love for Bodhi. Troubles surround her drug addicted dad, self-involved mom and for Margo to maintain customers for the content on the sexual site she created with two other vixens.  These troubles aside, "Margo's got Money Troubles" is worth paying for it's so delightfully cunning, clever and charming.