David Bianculli

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For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm David Biancullo.

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Margot's Got Money Troubles is created for television by David E. Kelly, who wrote or co-wrote several of the eight episodes.

Kelly's impressive TV career goes all the way back to L.A.

Law, Ally McBeal, Picket Fences, and Boston Legal.

But more recently, he's made a specialty of adapting other writers' novels for TV.

Those include Margot's Got Money Troubles by Rufy Thorpe, but also Kelly's adaptations of the novels Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, both of which starred Nicole Kidman.

She's in Margot, too, playing a lawyer with a colorful background.

But she's only one of many talented jewels in this show's crown.

Others include Kelly's wife, Michelle Pfeiffer, currently starring in The Madison, Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation, Devs, and The Last of Us, and veteran stars Greg Kinnear and Marsha Gay Harden.

Appearing with all of them in the title role is Elle Fanning, who was so great as a comic Catherine the Great in the TV series called The Great.

Here, she plays Margot Millett, a promising first-year student at a California community college.

Her eventually odious literature professor praises her writing, has an affair with her, gets her pregnant, then ghosts her.

All within the show's opening episode.

Margot decides she wants to have the baby anyway, which upsets her mother Cheyenne, a flamboyant woman played by Michelle Pfeiffer.