Our rating: 4/10
Moment of the review: 06/05/2024 – 2 week after watching episode 4
What is Palm Royale about
Maxine is a country girl dreaming to be including by the crème de la crème of Palm Royale, Palm Beach most exclusive club. Snobbed by them, she will find a way to bend their will with blackmail, friendship, competition and name dropping when she reveals she is married with Douglas Dellacourt, nephew of Norma Dellacourt currently in a coma but still know as the queen of Palm Beach organizing the main event of the season being her annual beach party and holding her precious rolodex of local and international celebrities.
Our review of Palm Royale
What a waste!
If you haven’t heard of Palm Royale then you don’t know that the cast includes none other than:
- Kristen Wiig, ex-SNL royalty, 5 time SNL host, star of the movie Bridesmaids and also seen in The Last Man On Earth
- Laura Dern and her iconic screams in Big Little Lies
- Ricky Martin (American Crime Story)
- Leslie Bibb (God’s Favorite Idiot, The Big Easy)
- Caroll Burnett
- Allison Janney (Mom, Masters of Sex)
Now that you know a part of the casts, imagine the disappointment when you watch a show with all these talented comedians and there is no laugh, bad script and boring dialogues.
We know these actors and actresses from their big performances in movies and other tv shows and lots of them were awarded for them but in Palm Royale they were just not given anything to play with or were directed in a way to suppress their talent.
The dialogues and the story don’t always make sense and because it is already boring enough as it is, it then becomes even more complicated to focus on and follow.
From one scene to the other, the relationships between 2 characters will be completely different and you can only wonder if you felt asleep without noticing at some point.
If you read some of our bad reviews, you know that what usually salvage the ratings of the show is the costumes and the decor as it is a very well representation of America in the 70’s.
What the internet says
The imdb members seem to have seen something in the show we didn’t by giving it a 6,7/10:
« I was just expecting to watch it for the eye candy (the costumes and sets are gorgeous) but stayed for the plot!»
«I felt like I was being promised something great… eventually… and it never shows up.»
«Fun, catty, high-snobiety drama!»
If you like Palm Royale, you might want to watch
Loot with Maya Rudolph for the combination of one of the SNL funniest ex-member with a story around money. This one is funny, we promise.