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Palm Royale creator and showrunner Abe Sylvia swung by to talk with Kyle Meredith about Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series, and it’s clear he’s doubled down on the show’s glamorous chaos. The new run picks up with Maxine Delacorte (Kristen Wiig) in full social exile after last season’s implosion, leaning into a bigger, flashier, twist-heavier world. Sylvia and Meredith dig into everything from the stacked cast to the social commentary woven into the satire. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Sylvia has a pretty simple secret to how he kept the show’s twists and turns straight: “We started writing Season 2 before season one had even aired,” he tells Meredith, noting that the writers’ room opened while he was still in post-production. That meant he wasn’t writing to online reactions: “I didn’t have to worry about the audience’s response,” he says, calling the freedom surprisingly liberating.
But beneath the show’s bright sheen is the darker reality Sylvia wants to satirize — especially how women were treated in high society circa 1969. “We start episode one and Maxine is literally in a straight jacket because she had the temerity to cry at a party,” he says, tying the moment to real stories he found in old Palm Beach social histories. Those “disgraced socialite apartments,” he notes, were often filled with women who simply “had a feeling” their husbands didn’t approve of. It’s why this season leans hard into themes of sisterhood, ambition, and the razor-thin line between being considered emotional and being labeled unhinged.
Listen to Abe Sylvia talk about Palm Royale Season 2, and more in the new episode above or by watching the video below. Keep up on all the latest episodes by following Kyle Meredith With… on your favorite podcast platform; plus, check out all the series on the Consequence Podcast Network.
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