Nicole Kidman was rushed to hospital while working on ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles’ #NicoleKidman #MargosGotMoneyTroubles #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/04/23/nicole-kidman-was-rushed-to-hospital-while-working-on-margos-got-money-troubles/

Heute neu auf #AppleTV 👇🏼

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#ImperfectWomen S01E07

Details und Vorschau: https://www.macprime.ch/a/news/neu-auf-apple-tv-zweite-staffel-criminal-record

Watching Margo’s Got Money Troubles episode 3.

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Heutiges Abendprogramm.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/116421990690806801

The Rhik Samadder review of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, also in The Guardian, is closer to my view.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/11/margos-got-money-troubles-elle-fanning-michelle-pfeiffer-onlyfans-apple-tv

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Watched the first episode of Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

Liked it a lot.

Read the Lucy Mangan review of the show in The Guardian. She thinks it should have been harder hitting. More gritty probably.

Hard disagree. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Reviewers. Downers more like!

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Well. Margo’s Got Money Troubles starts strong. 👍🏻

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Margo’s Money Troubles and the Paul McCartney bass thing

McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass (iPlayer)

We’re so used by now to the tedious style of the modern documentary: a wafer-thin premise, possibly 20-minutes of material strung out to an hour, repetition, recaps, attempts to sensationalise. And then there’s the sub-set of music documentaries, which can be especially terrible if the film makers don’t have a licence for any of the actual music. So you can imagine that my expectations concerning this documentary about Paul McCartney’s lost-and-found 1961 Hofner Violin Bass were at rock bottom. Fnar.

How pleasantly surprising, therefore, to discover that (while it wasn’t flawless), this documentary is not only worth a watch, but actually very well made. And, astonishingly, there is actual music by the actual Beatles. How did that happen? Was Don Draper in the room?

First of all, the flaws: yes, there’s an interview with Macca, and, no, the filmmakers don’t manage to stop him telling one of his standard stories. Still, treasure him while he’s alive, and let him tell his tales. There’s also one of those Beatle documentary standard visits to Forthlin Road, and a little bit of Mike McCartney telling one of his stories. None of this is strictly relevant, and might have bothered me if the rest of this documenrary weren’t so good. Klaus Voorman is there, too, and I don’t begrudge his moments at all. He’s more relevant than Mike, I think.

I won’t spoil the story. You get a bit of background on the bass, when it came into the picture, how it was replaced with a newer model, how it was modified, and so on. Then, crucially, everyone is really vague about when it went missing. Which is possibly because of dynamite weed, or whatever. We are introduced to the detectives, and the story gradually unfolds. There’s a twist or two along the way.

I really enjoyed this: it’s one of the better Beatle-related docs. I think I was in tears at four different points. Rating: four hankies.

Margo’s Got Money Troubles ()

I’m less comfortable with this new Apple TV dramedy, starring Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer. There’s something quite creepy and icky about an actor whose career started as a child, and then a teenager, being cast in a role in which she flashes her breasts (or prosthetic versions) frequently. It reminds me of the British tabloids being creepy about some child star about to turn 16. I can’t remember which tabloid or which star, but I’m pretty sure it happened, back in the Page 3 days.

So why am I watching? Well, Apple TV is the only service I’m on at the moment. Well, I’ve got Paramount+ through my phone contract, but I’m all caught up with Star Trek, and there is literally nothing else worth watching. Also I was intrigued to see Michelle Pfeiffer acting again. I last saw her in What Lies Beneath (2000).

She gives a strong performance as Margo’s mother, but of course she doesn’t look much like Michelle Pfeiffer any more. She’s not as unrecognisable as some actors who have had work, but her jaw is definitely squared off and she has that slightly uncanny valley filler/botox look. But she can still act. What I do wonder, since she plays someone who works at Hooters, has Michelle Pfeiffer had a boob job, or is this yet another use of prosthetics?

The premise is that Margo, a student, gets knocked up by her English Lit professor and decides to keep the baby. Yet another example of how the US entertainment industry pays lip service to a woman’s right to choose, but also leans heavily into the “I couldn’t take a life” narrative. In Juno, I remember it being they have fingernails. In this, it’s they have a heartbeat. Anyway, there would be no story if she did the sensible thing and had a termination. She keeps the baby, loses her job, two of her housemates move out, and she turns to Only Fans.

By the way, I don’t know how much stuff costs in America, but $238 for a box of huggies and a few other bits seems a lot.

It takes three episodes to get to Only Fans. Apple took the slightly unusual step of dropping the first three episodes all at once, I think because most people would know the premise and then wonder where it had got to.

Along the way, there’s some good character stuff. I don’t find it terribly funny. A lot of the humour seems to centre around boobs. It’s that kind of broad American “humour”. Nick Offerman appears as Margo’s dad, and he’s quite good. I’m not that familiar with his work because I never watched Parks and Rec.

Anyway, it’s kind of icky, takes a long time to get to the point, but it has Michelle Pfeiffer in it. No hankies, but a couple of nappies?