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Positive:
16
Mixed:
20
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
The IndependentMar 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Wiig fanatics will find much to admire in Palm Royale, which is every bit as indulgent and lavish as the lives of its characters. But what Palm Royale lacks, compared to the very best dynastic battles, is the ability to make the drama about more than just the internecine wranglings of a privileged minority.
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Mar 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, it all starts to feel redundant, even pointless, as Maxine keeps trying to wear the ladies down in episode after episode. At times, there doesn’t seem to be enough story line to fuel 10 hourlong episodes. A little more drama — or even some heavier satire — might have given the show more weight and purpose. Still, it’s an enjoyable, if forgettable, romp.
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Mar 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are a lot of moving pieces on this show, and so far everyone is pretty one-dimensional with the exceptions of Robert and Linda, who are both hiding ulterior motives and thus strike me as the most interesting. While I love watching Allison Janney being a ruthless bitch, she could use a little more to do. Otherwise, Palm Royale is stunning, but it’s not as funny as it clearly wants to be.
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Mar 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
At its best, when it leans into the caricature it sometimes seems to be going for, the show can approximate the verbal pleasures and visual delights of a Coen brothers comedy (think “Intolerable Cruelty”). But with a plot as overstuffed as its characters are thin, the result can be perplexing when it isn’t simply predictable — or ploddingly bureaucratic.
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Nov 12, 2025
Season 2 Review:
We still appreciate Wiig’s performance as Maxine, as well as the performances of Janney, Duffy and more. But Palm Royale is so in love with its own sense of late-’60s, early-’70s kitsch and piling on characters and plotlines, that those performances often get lost under a blizzard of words.
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Mar 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While there’s plenty going on in Palm Royale, including back-stabbings, torrid affairs and attempted murders, there’s precious little true substance lurking beneath its candy shell. At ten hour-long episodes, the comedy takes an awfully long way to get nowhere very interesting at all.
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The TelegraphMar 18, 2024
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