SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils episode seven of Margo’s Got Money Troubles , titled “Lariat Takedown . ”
Careful stunt planning and choreography underlie the devastating discovery of an unconscious Jinx ( Nick Offerman ) in a running bathtub with a heroine needle sticking out of his arm in the seventh episode of Margo’s Got Money Troubles .
In an episode that just keeps piling stresses onto Margo’s ( Elle Fanning ) brewing legal battle for custody of her son Bodhi — sparked by Mark (Michael Angeleno) — the titular character and her roommate Susie (Thaddea Graham) figure out that her father, former professional wrestler Jinx ,has been in the bathroom too long as a result of his relapse into drug use after his back injury was aggravated earlier on in the season.
“I feel like the times we see Jinx leading up to [it], the hints that we give the audience, or not, in hindsight, where they say, ‘Aha, I see how we got there.’ Those, I think, are much more important to me for the storytelling,” Offerman told…