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Palm Royale
Apple TV+
“All I ever wanted was to belong, to be somebody in this world,” Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig) says in the opening scene of this stylish comedy drama. “But there’s a catch when a woman wants to be a somebody — everyone else.” Palm Royale is loosely based on Mr & Mrs American Pie, the 2018 satirical novel by Juliet McDaniel, and the action begins during the heady summer months of 1969 when the wealthiest descend on Palm Beach (or “Bayeach” in Maxine’s southern drawl) to “mix and mingle like crabs in a barrel”. Maxine is an aspiring socialite, obsessed with appearances and determined
