By H. Alan Scott

How did one get to the top of Palm Beach high society in the late 1960s and early 1970s? With a lot of booze, feathers and a little...murder? That’s the mystery we were left with at the end of season one of the Apple TV+ comedy series Palm Royale , starring Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Carol Burnett and Ricky Martin, among many other big names. With season two upon us, the big question is, can they top the campy suspense of season one?

“She’s struggling to keep her place in society just like Maxine [played by Wiig] is, but she doesn’t want to admit that,” Janney tells Newsweek about her character Evelyn, a previously high-powered socialite on the scene who suffered a dramatic fall from grace to the very bottom with Maxine. “She has to transform herself, which is

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