I have not read Juliet McDaniel's 2018 novel 'Mr. and Mrs. American Pie,' which is nominally the basis of a new miniseries, 'Palm Royale,' but it's clear from the publisher's synopsis that it's a completely different story — though one that someone decided could be rebuilt into diverting, even brilliant television. As indeed it has been. Set in 1969 in the painfully upscale, excruciatingly exclusive community of Palm Beach, Fla.
There are political threads strung through the series — we see Nixon on television now and then, speaking of Vietnam or protests against the war there — but they are there more to animate the farce than as substantial social comment. Social climbing is the subject of a great body of literature and film and films based on literature — 'Vanity Fair,' 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,' 'The Talented Mr.
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