Parents' Guide to Palm Royale

With its Lilly Pulitzer dresses and ladies in elaborately styled wigs, this series looks like candy and goes down just as sweet. Viewers who remember the early 1980s wave of prime-time soaps like Dallas or Dynasty may be the most charmed by Palm Royale's premise, but with a great comedic cast on deck, you don't need that background to enjoy what you're watching. Wiig is pitch perfect as Maxine, a social climber with a lot of water under her bridge; she's simultaneously relatable and ridiculous, and she looks absolutely fantastic in her wardrobe of floral 1960s shifts. Everyone else looks amazing too: One of the great pleasures of Palm Royale is pausing on the group scenes to admire the hairdos, the impeccable vintage makeup, the shoes, caftans, and purses.

The twists in Palm Royale are telegraphed and soapy; expect secret affairs, sudden reversals, characters who aren't who they say they are. The first episode sets up a number of sites at which viewers can expect drama to ensue, such as at the Royale, where bartender Robert (Ricky Martin) already has an eye on the scheming Maxine. Another is the exclusive atelier where the Palm Royale ladies get their special-occasion dresses and designer Grayman (the wonderful Dominic Burgess from Feud) pounces on each and every piece of gossip. Palm Royale is simply a lot of uncomplicated fun dressed in period finery; what could be a better easy binge?