If you don’t like conflict on Margo’s Got Money Troubles, just wait fifteen minutes. In this week’s episode, the family Millet takes a trip to Las Vegas for Shyanne and Kenny’s Elvis-themed nuptials. Once again, one of Margo’s parents finds out her big sex-worker secret. Once again, ugly things are said. Once again, they’re forgiven (if not forgotten) a couple scenes later. For a show that’s trying mighty hard for dramatic heft, this sitcom structure keeps wrapping things up in once neat little bow after another.
The episode pulls a bit of a bait and switch in terms of which parental figure does the disapproving. Throughout the Vegas trip, Kenny is impossibly square, ordering virgin piña coladas, not gambling, and objecting to a mildly risqué act by a stage magician (Jon Daly) like it’s a screening of In the Realm of the Senses. Considering how much of her own
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