Margo's Got Money Troubles & The Books Capturing Right Now

Margo's Got Money Troubles hit Apple TV+ so we're talking OnlyFans novels, Ozempic horror & MLM mysteries — the books capturing this exact cultural moment and how they'll read in 30 years.

Shirin just finished Rufi Thorpe's 2024 novel AND the Elle Fanning adaptation (first three episodes streaming now), and that sparked a whole conversation about books as cultural time capsules. We dig into three recent reads doing that exact work:

• 📖 Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe — the OnlyFans mainstreaming story, plus why Apple TV+ and David E. Kelley turned it into a major Elle Fanning / Michelle Pfeiffer / Nick Offerman / Nicole Kidman vehicle.
• 📖 Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas — a brand-new body horror novel about a fictional weight loss drug called Obexity that arrives precisely as we're all living through the Ozempic / Wegovy / GLP-1 moment. Yes, The Substance comparisons are real.
• 📖 Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams — a pitch-black MLM murder mystery about a fictional beauty MLM called LuminUS. A time capsule of the boss-babe hun economy.

We also cover OnlyFans and sex work's weird mainstream arc, the Ozempic face discourse and the end of body positivity, the Avon/Tupperware-to-LuminUS pyramid scheme evolution, Bridget Jones's Diary as a body image relic, and which of these three will age the weirdest.

Next week: a full deep dive on Margo's Got Money Troubles, book vs. Apple TV+ show.

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