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Palm Royale on Apple TV+ review: glossy social climbing drama fails to scale the heights

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Palm Royale is a highly-stylised yet unsustaining series that seeks to find substance in the art of social climbing, yet my lasting impression was: who does Kristen Wiig's sensational blonde hair?

The plot of is well trodden yet slightly preposterous. Maxine (Kristen Wiig), the relentlessly positive, coiffed wife of the heir apparent of a vast Floridian fortune, will do anything to achieve her desire of "being someone."

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