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The first episode was hard to watch, but you need it because it lays out how horrible Ruby is. It's necessary. It gets so much better and more ridiculous as the season goes on, especially the gravitas Stephanie and Zosia give the most inane situations and conversations. Give it time and get to know the characters. Everyone has a weird and shiny moment, and there's a big laugh almost every episode. There are a couple of surprise guests along the way, adding to the zaniness, although with one of them, I got a little uncomfortable with how she sent up some of her famous history for a laugh, but with the other, who to me will always be the doctor from Lost, I had no complaints. He needs to be a mysterious figure on every show, in my opinion.

I was so excited for this but couldn't make it to the end of the first episode. I didn't care at all what happened to those people. The ads looked good; the show didn't live up to it. Maybe I'm being melodramatic in reviewing it after watching only three quarters of one episode, but if a show doesn't grip you in one episode, how do you bring yourself to watch the rest of them? I've tried that route before and became trapped watching laughless hours of the new Night Court or that show The Neoghborhood, which is for some unknown reason in its 5th season I think??? But Palm Royale probably won't be getting that treatment from me.

Nothing romcom about this. It was a very simple story, not a long movie, and it gave me the good feels. Sometimes I watch a romantic movie and I get the sads. This time I felt hopeful. The leads were so good. Haley Lu can often seem a little wooden, but after watching her in this, it seems more like she's being very relaxed about acting, letting it happen, instead of hamming it up like some do. Both of them are too old to have been playing such young people, and they looked it, so the only real criticism I've got is that the writer should have just made them older. It would have had zero effect on the story. Also loved the Shakespeare scene. This was a really nice feel-good movie, even with some of the more depressing moments. And I loved seeing Jameela Jamil on the screen. She always gives me a smile.