Palm royale articles
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Palm Royale recap: President Nixon has entered the chat
Carol Burnett’s hour has arrived! After three episodes in a coma and six ones slurring minimal dialogue, Palm Royale is finally setting her up to make a splash in the finale. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I have to recap this penultimate episode first. It’s a flashback to the not-so-distant past, Norma (Carol Burnett) asks Robert (Ricky Martin) to tell a little more about himself after he has been nameless waiting on her during a previous season. “Tell me about the man behind the martini,”...
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Palm Royale recap: Were these plot developments drawn from a hat?
I thought that maybe Palm Royale was finally gelling after last week. Everyone was in one location, the humor was clicking, and the reveals felt like payoffs. Alas, it was short lived, as the wheels came off this week in a big way. True to its established structure, we open with another flashback. In 1950, Robert (Ricky Martin) was in Korea, skinny dipping with a guy who’s clearly a little more than a war buddy. This flashback, and the later implication that said buddy did not make it home...
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Josh Lucas on playing in Palm Royale's "fun comedy lab"
In Apple TV+’s star-studded show Palm Royale, picking out a favorite performer isn’t easy considering it features Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Leslie Bibb, and Ricky Martin. So it’s no wonder Josh Lucas, who co-stars in the dramedy, agrees that it’s a “comedy lab” of sorts. The actor holds his own in Abe Sylvia’s ’60s-set series, which drops its finale on May 8. Palm Royale’s wacky comedy emerges from the women of Palm Beach attempting to climb society’s social...