Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24' - Palm Royale - Season One

Palm Royale was said to be a ten-part period miniseries, however episode ten Maxine Throws a Party, ends on a Ricky Martin level cliffhanger.

Based on the 2018 novel Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel, Palm Royale commenced late March, with the first three episodes on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ is completely slaying of late. With Loot still screening weekly on Wednesday's, Sugar sounding sweet (next in line for me to watch) and Presumed Innocent incoming!

Palm Royale is in 1969, outsider Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons (Kristen Wiig) strives to attain a place in the high society of Palm Beach, Florida through the town's most exclusive country club, in the process learning what she will and won't do to achieve this.

Alongside Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Leslie Bibb, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Carol Burnett, Amber Chardae Robinson, Jordan Bridges, Kaia Gerber and Julia Duffy all star, in this comedy series.

Now I was truly hooked on this series when it first launched with three episodes at the end of May. Would it have worked better as a 30 minute, short, sharp comedy? Yes. Would a second season be watchable? Yes, but maybe take learnings from season one and make the second run a shorter running time.

Also the episode about the whale was a little random.

All that said Apple TV+ are doing brilliant work. Loot, Bad Sisters (where is season two?), Hijack, Shrinking, Platonic and my recent binge of Ted Lasso, makes this streaming service one of the most consistent across all streaming platforms.

Seriously decent content of late Apple TV+, great job! Palm Royale, may not be their best work, but Allison Janney, was a standout and Ricky Martin can actually act. Shake ya bon, bon or not!