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• The cast is similarly well balanced, with actors like Dern and Janney counterweighting comic performers like Wiig, who makes an unhinged social climber lovable, and the legendary Carol Burnett as the funniest convalescent you've ever met.
• That quest will bring her to places Palm Royale members would never venture into, from a feminist bookstore where the liberated Linda (Laura Dern, also an executive producer) leads consciousness-raising sessions to the extracurricular haunts of the confusingly ubiquitous club employee Robert (Ricky Martin).
• Like securing membership in the most exclusive social club in town.That walled haven, a headquarters for ladies who lunch and the husbands who fund their leisurely lifestyles, is called the Palm Royale.
• So begins Maxine’s tireless campaign to gain acceptance in Palm Beach society’s most rarefied social circle.She must prove herself a useful confidant in a land whose currency, especially for those who don’t have millions of dollars at their disposal, is secrets.
• But showrunner Abe Sylvia (Dead to Me), loosely adapting Juliet McDaniel’s novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, makes it feel fresh by nailing both the comedy and the melodrama, in a punchy first season that gets weirder with each episode.
• You’ll find mild wealth satire if you’re looking for it, but—like an afternoon spent poolside at a club that wouldn’t have you as a member—Palm Royale is best enjoyed as pure, mischievous fun.Contact us at [email protected]