>>The “we can wait for dinner” thing was obviously a joke, which is why I bothered to type out the quote. I wasn’t criticizing that line, I was pointing out its humor.

oof, this show is so clearly not for you, and that’s fine, but Palm Royale is camp gold and i’m so sorry that the tone/humor is going over your head.

i actually watched the first two eps of Swans and gave up because i found it super boring! i definitely prefer the playful, unserious attitude of Palm Royale much more. (i tend to find Ryan Murphy’s, “this is PRESTIGE TV!” melodrama way too on-the-nose most of the time.)

god forbid we get a show featuring a cast of actresses on the north side of 40! 

if you like it, watch it? if you don’t.... don’t? life’s too short to rely on someone else’s opinion, especially not the barely-literate college freshmen and ChatGPT bots they employ over here nowadays.

two things:

y’all should really get another writer on this show, immediately. i nearly skipped this one after seeing the lackluster lede in the TV Reviews section, but i’m thankful i didn’t.

i’m even more confused, as this is literally Levi’s *sixth* season on the show. he’s... not the “new” anything? also, why is the reviewer calling him “Atticus” when he’s only ever referred to as “Linc” (a shortening of his last name.)

You don’t cast Wendell Pierce if you’re making the cops the bad guys, fed. 

Sighhhh, it sounds the Kings have really tripled-down on their bootlicking in this one. That’s... unfortunate. Making Elsbeth (one of the quirkiest, most lovable, brilliant weirdos in their universe) affiliated with the NYPD? AND HELPING THEM? Nah. Fuck that. I realize this is CBS and that’s their brand, but I’m not…

“The perky Eagle News anchor who seems to delight at every misstep...”

here you go: https://episodicmedium.substack.com/s/justified

“He says he made mistakes by trying to lock her down with marriage or even the lease on the apartment.”

if you want to chat with a bunch of old school AVC heads, check out Episodic Medium (https://episodicmedium.substack.com/) run by Myles McNutt. (there’s a ton of former TV Club writers recapping shows there too. the comment section is smaller than AVC in its heyday, but the enthusiasm for talking TV is definitely…

nothing about this show makes a lick of sense anymore, it’s almost like an AI-generated script. truly baffling choices, all around.

to be fair, the minute i saw her walk into that restaurant i knew it was a, “whoops, wrong spot!” setup. the deliberate placing of the street number on the black part of the building, as if to indicate it was the restaurant Carrie picked, was way too obvious of a design choice to not be foreshadowing.

like, he LIVED there!! is he that PTSD-pilled from his time with Carrie that he blacked out his knowledge of NYC geography? (and also, the fact that he decided the issue was the apartment and not, like, all the deep-seated trauma she inflicted on him? c’mon bro. really? him leaving her on that stoop would have been…

• Carrie’s phone dies as she sits down to wait for Aidan in the restaurant, and what kind of monster leaves for an important outing with a phone that’s about to die?

get a jobbbbb.

your mom should have swallowed. bye!